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Posted: April 6, 2022
The Graduate College is proud to announce Ken Vickery, director of fellowships, is a Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) awardee for his work helping graduate students compete for prestigious grants and fellowships.
In 2009, Vickery was asked to establish a new office in the Graduate College to support graduate students applying...
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Posted: April 1, 2022
The Graduate College is proud to announce that Aaron Thompson from Statistics is the winner of the 2022 Graduate College Excellence Award for Graduate Contacts. The award is given annually as part of the Graduate College’s Annual Workshop for Directors of Graduate Study and Graduate Contacts. It recognizes staff members whose service has...
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Posted: March 30, 2022
The Graduate College is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2022 Research Live! competition.
Research Live! is a fun, fast-paced competition that celebrates graduate students' research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Thirteen finalists shared their remarkable research in three minutes or less at the public showcase held at the...
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Posted: March 22, 2022
Every year, as we prepare for the annual Image of Research exhibition, we are amazed at the diversity and beauty of graduate student research on our campus.
We invite you to explore the online exhibition and vote for your top three entries by Tuesday, April 12. Your votes will determine the People's Choice winner ($100 award). Printed entries will...
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Posted: February 23, 2022
Opeyemi Arogundade, Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) program trainee and student in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) scientist, Andrew Smith’s, lab, is applying his academic background in physics to cancer research and improving the penetration of nanoparticles into tissue to obtain three-dimensional images.
As an undergraduate student, Arogundade...