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Hands-free wheelchair prototype achieves major milestone
Posted on News by Mechanical Science & Engineering In 2020, collaborators from across the University of Illinois campus received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a robotic wheelchair that...
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WormAtlas expanding beyond C. elegans with support from NIH
from ACES News, by Lauren Quinn, March 7, 2023 URBANA, Ill. – The National Institutes of Health recently pledged $2.6 million towards the Center for C. elegans Anatomy, also known as...
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Gene Robinson: Sequencing Genomes, Bees, and Evolution | The UIUC Talkshow #31
The UIUC Talkshow #31 with Juan David Campolargo and Aaryaman Patel - interviewing Dr. Gene Robinson Gene Robinson is the Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and Entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research uses bees to understand the...
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Network neuroscience theory best predictor of intelligence
Beckman researchers Aron Barbey and Evan Anderson found that taking into account the features of the whole brain rather than focusing on individual regions or networks allows the...
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Reading for pleasure strengthens memory in older adults
With help from the Champaign Public Library, Beckman researchers led by Professor Liz Stine-Morrow demonstrated that regular, engaged leisure reading can...
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Eva Fischer
How would you describe your background? (I.E. Where are you from? How did you first get interested in your area of research? Etc.) I grew up in Colorado, and then I went to undergrad on the east coast. I really wanted to live somewhere with deciduous trees, having grown up with a bunch of pine trees. When I started college, I had a lot of different interests and I wasn't really that sure what I wanted to do. So definitely not one of those people who knew from day one what they wanted to be when they grew up. I took a range of classes. I was taking some...

NSP Alumna Kelsey Hassevoort receives 2022 NORDP Rising Star Award
Join us in congratulating IHSI research development manager and Neuroscience Program alumna, Dr. Kelsey Hassevoort, who recently received the 2022 Rising Star Award from the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP) for her outstanding, early career contributions to the organization and her strong potential for future contributions to the field of research development. “I’m honored to...

Jennifer Walters, in Hee Jung Chung's lab