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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.

2008-12-31 - From the Chicago Sun Times: Researchers say they've come up with what might be a new, potentially more effective way to treat the "superbug" known as MRSA. The discovery could lead to new ways to fight the especially drug-resistant staph infection, said Eric Oldfield, a University of Illinois researcher. Read more...

2008-12-31 - Chad Rienstra has led a team of researchers at UIUC to receive a NIH High End Instrumentation grant for $1,936,449, which will be used to purchase a high-field solid-state NMR spectrometer to be housed in the School of Chemical Sciences NMR Facility.

2008-12-31 - Researchers at Illinois have developed new synthetic strategies for forming monolayer films of conjugated carbon, in various configurations ranging from flat sheets, to balloons, tubes and pleated sheets.

2008-12-31 - Understanding the form and function of certain proteins in the human body is becoming faster and easier, thanks to the work of researchers at the University of Illinois.