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  • Congratulations to the 2012 EMBS Award Recipients

    Rashid Bashir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ECE and BioE professor was awarded the 2012 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS) Technical Achievement Award for Significant Contributions to the Development of Micro and Nanoscale Biosensors.

  • Study: Metabolism in the brain fluctuates with circadian rhythm

    The rhythm of life is driven by the cycles of day and night, and most organisms carry in their cells a common, (roughly) 24-hour beat. In animals, this rhythm emerges from a tiny brain structure called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus.

  • B3 Summer Institute Provides Interdisciplinary Training to Next Generation Workforce

    The two-week-long BioSensing BioActuation BioNanotechnology Summer Institute 2012, held at the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL) from July 30–August 10, 2012, trained participants at the intersection of biology and engineering and fostered networking with other researchers.

  • University of Illinois researcher leapfrogs again with infection-warning smart suture technology

    John Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has found a way to apply his revolutionary flexible sensor technology to sutures and enable them to both precisely measure temperature in real-time.

  • Granick recognized with ACS colloid science award

    Steve Granick, a Founder Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE), has been recognized as the 2013 recipient of the Colloid and Surface Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society, the highest honor in colloid science in the United States.

  • Looking One Cell at a Time in the Brain to Better Understand Pain, Learning, Memory

    Working with units of material so small that it would take 50,000 to make up one drop, scientists are developing the profiles of the contents of individual brain cells in a search for the root causes of chronic pain, memory loss and other maladies that affect millions of people.

  • CVD graphene nanoribbons make good interconnects

    Nanoribbons obtained from graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) could make ideal interconnects for nanoelectronic circuits.

  • Smart Fingertips' Pave Way for Virtual Sensations

    Imagine feeling like you’re lifting a 50-kilogram weight just by pulling at thin air. That’s just one of the possible applications of new "smart fingertips" created by a team of nanoengineers.

  • Oh, my stars and hexagons! DNA code shapes gold nanoparticles

    DNA holds the genetic code for all sorts of biological molecules and traits. But University of Illinois researchers have found that DNA’s code can similarly shape metallic structures.

  • Kalita, Danao recognized for teaching excellence

    Prasanta Kalita and Mary-Grace Danao, faculty members in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE), have been recognized for excellence in teaching at the 58th Annual Conference of North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA).