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  • Lissette Piedra Named Graduate Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

    October 13, 2019
    Lissette Piedra
  • Anger-prone children may benefit most from maternal sensitivity

    October 10, 2019
    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, human and community development professor Nancy McElwain and doctoral student Xi Chen found in a new study of mothers and their toddlers.
  • Building microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves

    October 10, 2019
    The research team includes, from left, professor Taher Saif, graduate student Onur Aydin, graduate student Xiaotian Zhang, professor Mattia Gazzola, graduate student Gelson J. Pagan-Diaz, seated, and professor and dean of the Grainger College of Engineering, Rashid Bashir.
  • We’re Record-breaking: More than 16,000 Graduate Students Enrolled

    September 13, 2019
    We're record breaking. 16,000 Graduate Students
  • Illinois Selected to Participate in AAU’s PhD Education Initiative

    September 12, 2019
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  • Using polymer printing to better conduct electricity

    September 11, 2019
    Professor Ying Diao, left, postdoctoral researcher Kyung Sun Park, seated, and graduate student Justin Kwok have found that twisted polymers can be flattened via the printing process to make them better at conducting electricity.
  • Giving polyurethane waste a second life

    September 08, 2019
    U. of I. chemistry professor Steven Zimmerman, graduate student Ephraim Morado and their colleagues are inventing new ways to degrade polyurethane and reuse the waste
  • Growing crops with trees

    September 06, 2019
    Eric Wolske, a member of Illinois’ Agroforestry for Food (A4F) team
  • Researchers embrace imperfection to improve biomolecule transport

    August 07, 2019
    Physics professor Aleksei Aksimentiev, left, and graduate student Manish Shankla.
  • Infants expect leaders to right wrongs, study finds

    July 31, 2019
     In a new study, former U. of I. graduate student Maayan Stavans found that 17-month-old infants expect leaders to intervene when one member of their group transgresses against another.
  • Tracking an invisible world

    July 22, 2019
    Sen stresses bacteria with hydrogen peroxide to learn about bacterial defenses.
  • Science Policy Group and Beckman grow National Science Policy Network.

    July 08, 2019
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