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Posted: March 5, 2018
Aadeel Akhtar, a recent doctoral recipient in neuroscience from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, learned at a young age living in Pakistan that the availability and affordability of resources could greatly impact the course of someone’s life. He’s spent his adult life building an academic background that would help him make a...
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Posted: February 19, 2018
Watch our 10-Minute Tip videos. These videos were created for our campus to share best practices on topics critical to graduate education - topics such as fellowship nominations, tuition waivers, examination committees, and designing new graduate programs. See a full listing of all Graduate College videos in Illinois Mediaspace.
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Posted: February 9, 2018
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — I slowly turn each page of Florence Lee’s large paper scrapbook, making sure not to wrinkle any of the items she placed inside. Its contents offer a snapshot of student life in the early 20th century at the University of Illinois: a laminated orange and blue button from a homecoming football game, a brochure from the Anti-...
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Posted: February 9, 2018
Illinois researchers have demonstrated that sound waves can be used to produce ultraminiature optical diodes that are tiny enough to fit onto a computer chip. These devices, called optical isolators, may help solve major data capacity and system size challenges for photonic integrated circuits, the light-based equivalent of electronic circuits,...
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Posted: January 9, 2018
The Graduate College is pleased to announce the awardees of the Fall 2017 Dissertation Travel Grant and Master’s Project Travel Grant. With the help of these Travel Grants, students have the opportunity to conduct dissertation research or complete master’s projects in destinations across the world. Twenty-two departments from across campus...