Five Questions with Schmidt Science Fellow Krishnakant Saboo
Krishnakant Saboo is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Graduate College Receives $500,000 Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Graduate College at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been awarded a $500,000 Creating Equitable Pathways to STEM Graduate Education grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Latch, load and release: Elastic motion makes click beetles click, study finds
Click beetles can propel themselves more than 20 body lengths into the air, and they do so without using their legs. While the jump’s motion has been studied in depth, the physical mechanisms that enable the beetles’ signature clicking maneuver have not. A new study examines the forces behind this super-fast energy release and provides guidelines for studying extreme motion, energy storage and energy release in other small animals like trap-jaw ants and mantis shrimps.
VinUniversity and Illinois Launch Collaborative Fellowship Program
The Graduate College is pleased to announce a new partnership with VinUniversity, a private nonprofit university in Hanoi, Vietnam. The partnership will provide fellowships to Vietnamese citizens and Vietnamese-Americans who wish to pursue graduate degrees at the University of Illinois.
Researchers confront optics and data-transfer challenges with 3D-printed lens
Researchers have developed new 3D-printed microlenses with adjustable refractive indices – a property that gives them highly specialized light-focusing abilities. This advancement is poised to improve imaging, computing and communications by significantly increasing the data-routing capability of computer chips and other optical systems, the researchers said.