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Children who are prone to anger or less likely to express pleasure during everyday interactions may benefit most from caregivers who are sensitive to their emotional needs and behavioral cues.

"(The students) had to learn a few new skills, like how to hang food from a bear pole. Some also had to adjust emotionally to the idea of sleeping in the middle of grizzly country."

The Cancer Center at Illinois will bring together more than 90 faculty members from across campus, plus graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, to pursue cancer-related research

According to Dr. Felipe Menanteau, all of human learning is driven by these two fundamental questions.

Professor Andrew Orta's book is a study of 'what MBAs learn about culture, and what that can tell us about contemporary global capitalism.'

Researchers have created a molecular Trojan horse that can penetrate gram-negative bacteria, a problem that had stalled development of new antibiotics against these increasingly drug-resistant microbes.

People infected with the original strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 produced a consistent antibody response. However, those antibodies don’t bind well to new variants, according to a new Illinois study.

'We have a long way to go, but this has increased our optimism that a molecular prosthetics approach could provide a new way to treat all people with cystic fibrosis,' says study leader. professor and medical doctor Martin D. Burke. 

Through an after-school program called App Authors, elementary students are trying their hands at software design - gaining experience in coding and learning to work as a team to solve problems.

Book by professor Kathryn Anthony looks at both bad and good examples of design and suggests ways for consumers to demand better designs for products and places.

In 40 media stories (2003 to 2018), frogs, lizards, snakes, mice, birds, and even a bat, were found in salad greens, green beans, or mixed vegetables. Ten of these were alive.

If farmers could no longer control weeds with existing herbicides, Americans would quickly notice a spike in their grocery bills

“By not recognizing two species, these organizations may be condemning the African forest elephant to extinction,” said University of Illinois Animal Sciences Professor Alfred Roca.

Project leader, Professor Bill King, says that the project 'will create a fundamentally new manufacturing technology that uses artificial intelligence, robotics, and vision systems to monitor and control the growth of tumor models.' 

Chemists at the University of Illinois have successfully produced fuels using water, carbon dioxide and visible light through artificial photosynthesis.

Lisa Dixon, a University of Illinois theatre professor, is working with Struan Leslie, formerly the head of movement and a choreographer at the Royal Shakespeare Company, to develop a new theatrical work, “My Case is Altered: Tales of a 21st Century Roaring Girl.”

Illinois Art & Design professor Stephen Cartwright creates sculptural landscapes from data he collects about himself and his environment.

A storefront community arts center in Hyde Park is hosting an exhibit that invites people to share their thoughts and stories of the president - the sorts of things that won’t be found in the official presidential library.

Business professor Jack Goncalo finds that being creative in the workplace is potentially fraught with peril because creativity itself is deeply personal.

Researchers report that the Asian tiger mosquito has become more abundant across Illinois in the past three decades. Its spread is problematic, as the mosquito can transmit diseases – like chikungunya or dengue fever – to humans.

The finding presents an opportunity to study one of the mysteries behind star formation, according to one of the study’s co-authors at the University of Illinois.  

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has revealed how a black hole looks in polarized light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarization, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. 

Physics professor Klaus Schulten and colleagues used a supercomputer to model the atomic structure of a chromatophore, the engine of photosynthesis in some bacteria.

Advanced molecular imaging technology has now mapped the structure of a drug widely used to treat fungal infections but whose workings have mystified researchers and physicians for nearly 70 years.

Researchers have developed an app that uses a phone’s camera and location-tool to automatically detect nearby businesses and pull up reviews from multiple sources on the same screen. 

'Lots of researchers have tried to develop new photocatalysts for different reactions. And enzyme catalysis is a relatively old field.' Few researchers have put these two catalysts together

Professor Christopher Freeburg's book, 'Counterlife: Slavery After Resistance and Social Death,' argues that scholars should look at the lives and creativity of slaves more broadly than whether their actions led to freedom.

'Metaphorically, what distinguishes (autonomous vs. dependent) help-seeking is the difference between asking someone to teach you how to fish versus just asking them for fish,' said Professor Yihao Liu.

A diet that included an avocado a day reduced visceral belly fat in women in a randomized controlled study of adults with overweight and obesity.

Travertine stone used extensively in Mayo Clinic buildings has provided a research team from Mayo Clinic and geologist Bruce Fouke's team at the University of Illinois with an unexpected – and beautiful - clue about kidney stones.

A new class of spiral polypeptides developed at the University of Illinois targets one thing no bacterium can live without: an outer membrane.

New study from researchers at the U of I and Mie University in Japan finds that a bacterial protein fragment instigates lung tissue death in pulmonary fibrosis, a mysterious disease affecting millions of people.

'We found that there is no typical bankruptcy filer, and the law needs to be adaptive to different situations – particularly to the nine distinct patterns that emerged in our data,' said law professor Robert Lawless.

Basar is a Swanlund Chair, an internationally renowned scholar, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of multiple prestigious awards and honors

'This was an in-depth study of these two imperiled (bat) species in landscapes where they co-occur. Nobody's done that before. (It)gives us a much better sense of how bats not only coexist, but also how they benefit our forests,' says U of I's Joy O'Keefe.

Electricity running through a salt water-filled battery draws the salt ions out of the water.

Eighteen University of Illinois colleges, departments, and schools, along with a generous gift from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, are funding the purchase of a Bruker 9.4 Tesla preclinical animal MRI system.

 The findings could lead to new teaching methods for struggling readers or second language learners

'There is tremendous plasticity in the brain in the first years of life, and that brain development is shaped, in part, by the infant’s repeated experiences with parents and other primary caregivers'

Brain atlases can be used to compare magnetic resonance images (MRI) between subjects and research specimens.

Antibiotics are commonly used to treat bacteria during an infection, but overuse eventually leads to microbial resistance. 'It’s imperative to develop durable surfaces that are mechanically antibacterial,' says researcher Yutao Chen.

With microscopic computed tomography, also known as micro-CT or X-ray microscopy, researchers apply CT techniques to reconstruct samples as tiny and delicate as collagen and insect antennae.  

Ronny Guo developed a new method to help clinicians non-invasively locate and characterize brain tumors. His paper won first prize in the annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society Student Paper Competition.

Members of the sniper unit of the Champaign County Metropolitan Emergency Tactical Response Operations (METRO) gathered last month for an unconventional target practice that was captured on video.

Their open-access tool will help doctors and researchers assess infant brain metabolite levels. High or low metabolite levels in the brain may be the first sign of problems with brain function or development.

Illinois researchers from the Beckman Institute have developed a new method to improve the noise associated with nanoscale chemical imaging using atomic force microscopy.

Study finds that pain levels and quality-of-life issues have little influence on older adults’ decisions to treat their condition with cannabis or opioids. Instead, treatment decisions are driven primarily by their and their providers’ beliefs about cannabis.

The volume of the Mahomet Aquafir has always been a mystery, but a ground­breaking technology is giving us a deeper understanding of this vital water source, laying the groundwork for critical, equitable water management and governance. 

U. of I. entomology professor Alexandra Harmon-Threatt and former doctoral student Scott Clem found that field edges with a diversity of plants help keep pest species populations in check.

Food scientists at Illinois have found that fermenting blueberries and blackberries - already considered 'diabetes superfoods' - may improve their antidiabetic potential even more.