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Posted: July 2, 2018
Eleven University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students and young alumni have been offered student Fulbright grants to pursue international educational, research and teaching experiences across the globe this coming year.
As the flagship international educational exchange program of the U.S. government, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program builds...
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Posted: May 31, 2018
In early February, the usually imposing Beckman Institute atrium resembled a playground of sorts with the addition of an assortment of oddly shaped chairs as well as brightly colored plastic connective toys and pipe cleaners that were placed at tables. The center of the research institute became a laboratory for a research project in design...
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Posted: May 16, 2018
Alumna Linda Marie Perkins, Ph.D. ’78 EPS, has a long and storied connection to the University of Illinois.
Her collegiate journey in Urbana-Champaign is notable for its breadth of searching and discovery—accompanied by a roadblock along the way—leading to the moment when Perkins knew exactly what she wanted to pursue.
“Illinois has just been so...
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Posted: April 18, 2018
PhD student Raymond Alexander Yeh has been selected as one of 39 recipients of a 2018 Google PhD Fellowship. Since its inception in 2009, nine other Illinois PhD students have been named Fellows in the highly selective program, but Yeh is the first from ECE. The Google Fellowship offers two years of support, and it includes annual stipend of $34,...
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Posted: April 16, 2018
Thirty-two students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign haved been offered Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Twenty-three are graduate students and nine are undergraduates. An additional 21 students are accorded Honorable Mention.
Launched in 1952 shortly after Congress established NSF, the...