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2008-12-31 - When Donna Korol arrived at the University of Illinois in 2000, the move, she says, hit her "like a breath of fresh air." The spirit of cooperation and support among faculty struck her as unique. The assistant professor of psychology had worked at three universities prior to the U of I, but in Urbana-Champaign she found her fit. It was as if a sense of community had permeated the work space, she...

2008-12-31 - Read the San Francisco Chronicle article here.

2008-12-31 - Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching, compressing, folding and other types of extreme mechanical deformations, without a reduction in electrical performance.

2008-12-31 - John Rogers, Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, has recently had his research into nanotube mesh featured in an article in Chemistry World. Read the article here.

2008-12-31 - The National Science Foundation announced this month that it is funding a new Physics Frontiers Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Center for the Physics of Living Cells is one of nine Physics Frontiers Centers in the U.S., and the second to explore the physics of biological systems.

2008-12-31 - Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world’s first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it.

2008-12-31 - John Rogers and Yonggang Huang have brought the possibility of stretchable, flexible sensors much closer to reality through their research in flexible silicon-based circuits.

2008-12-31 - John Rogers and his colleagues have published new findings on their research into creating flexible silicon solar cells. Read more in the October issue of The New York Times and iTnews.

2008-12-31 - Blood clots can save lives, staunching blood loss after injury, but they can also kill. Let loose in the bloodstream, a clot can cause a heart attack, stroke or pulmonary embolism.

2008-12-31 - By combining stretchable optoelectronics and biologically inspired design, scientists have created a remarkable imaging device, with a layout based on the human eye.

2008-12-31 - John Rogers is one of six scientists selected as a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF) for 2009. NSSEFF will provide him with $3 million over five years to conduct basic research that the DoD finds technologically important.

2008-12-31 - Christopher Field of the Scheeline Group has won the Tomas Hirschfeld award. The award is presented each year and the winner receives a monetary prize, a plaque andtravel expenses to attend the relevant NIR conference. The winner is expected to make akeynote presentation.

2008-12-31 - Tom Anderson, a student in the Burke Group , has just received the Ruth L. Kirchstein Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) , based on his work using NMR spectroscopy to illuminate the fundamental underpinnings of the amphotericin B ion channel.

2008-12-31 - Charles P. Slichter, Research Professor of Physics and Center for Advanced Study Emeritus Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Illinois, has been selected as a recipient of the 2007 National Medal of Science. President George W. Bush will present the medal at a White House ceremony on Sept. 29. During the ceremony, he also will award the National Medals of Technology and...

2008-12-31 - Mark Chen, a fourth year graduate student in the White Group , has recently been awarded the 2008 Excellence in Chemistry Award from Roche Pharmaceuticals.