-
Posted: September 7, 2018
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Obesity is associated with a host of health problems, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. According to a new study reported in the Journal of Physiology, obesity also diminishes a person’s ability to build muscle after engaging in resistance exercise.
“Several previous studies, including some from...
-
Posted: September 7, 2018
Parisa Tabriz studied computer security as an undergraduate and graduate student at Illinois in the early-to-mid-2000s. Now she runs browser engineering for Google Chrome, the most used internet browser in the world.
++
Parisa Tabriz takes the stage as the keynote speaker at one of the year’s most attended cybersecurity events—the annual Black Hat...
-
Posted: August 20, 2018
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In a new study in cells, University of Illinois researchers have adapted CRISPR gene-editing technology to cause the cell’s internal machinery to skip over a small portion of a gene when transcribing it into a template for protein building. This gives researchers a way not only to eliminate a mutated gene sequence, but to...
-
Posted: August 9, 2018
The University of Illinois hosted 10 undergraduate students this summer for a 10-week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). The program, “Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging,” is credited with benefiting both the visiting undergraduate students and their Illinois graduate student mentors.
Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), this...
-
Posted: August 3, 2018
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) awarded Fellowships to three University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate College students. Recipients will pursue academic work and lead innovative community projects to empower women and girls.
• Jaime Coon is the recipient of an American Fellowship, she is currently pursuing a...