2025-05-01
- Bioengineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering, and The Grainger College of Engineering community recently celebrated a new named appointment for professor Taher Saif. In an investiture ceremony held in the Beckman Institute Auditorium, he formally received his new distinction as a Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering....
2025-04-22 - Two articles were recently published highlighting the work of Neuroscience Program faculty, Manuel Hernandez and Neuroscience Graduate student Jonathan Cerna:Wearable technology continuously monitors heart-rate recovery to predict risk - by Diana...
2025-02-28 - Shared from UIUC Strategic Communications and Marketing News Bureau, 2/18/25 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with the same mutation, a rare finding of a direct genetic link to psychosis, report researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and colleagues...
2024-12-04 - Adapted from Meet the 2024 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows "The Beckman Institute has announced seven University of Illinois students as Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows: Shagun Ajmera, neuroscience; Janice Baek, material science and engineering...
2024-11-04 - Shared from Bioengineering News The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded a $5.6 million grant to the Neuroproteomics & Neurometabolomics Center on Cell-Cell Signaling. Established in 2005 at Illinois, the Center...
2024-10-15 - Shared from MCB's News page The School of Molecular & Cellular Biology and Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology are pleased to welcome...
2024-09-24 - Shared from Beckman Institute News Stories Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology demonstrated that emotion enhances memory for contextual details, challenging the view that emotion impairs the ability to remember such information. The report was led by doctoral student Paul Bogdan, currently a...
2024-08-21 - Shared from MCB's Online News The Endocrine Society today announced it has chosen 14 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious ...
2024-07-29 - Article from ACES NEWS: A bad case of the flu during pregnancy can increase the risk for fetal neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder. But it’s not the virus itself doing the damage; it’s the mother’s immune response. ...
2024-07-12 - Brad Sutton, the technical director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s Biomedical Imaging Center and a professor of bioengineering at the University of...
2024-06-27 - LAS alumna receives Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans Keerthana Hogirala, who immigrated from India, prepares for a promising career Keerthana Hogirala was born in Tirupati, India. When she was 6 years old, her family moved to Michigan, and when she was 9 years old she moved to Illinois. The transition to the United States was difficult. Hogirala says that her parents...
2024-06-27 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By giving artificial intelligence simple associative learning rules based on the brain circuits that allow a sea slug to forage — and augmenting it with better episodic memory, like that of an octopus — scientists have built an AI that can navigate new environments, seek rewards, map landmarks and overcome obstacles. Reported in the journal Neurocomputing, the new approach...
2024-06-26 - Excerpt: Tinnitus problems, too Fatima Husain is a professor and neuroscientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and studies how the brain processes sound. She said people with tinnitus may also struggle with cicada song. Tinnitus, a ringing or other noise in the ears, is a person’s perception of sound without an external source. “Some people say it sounds like buzzing, like...
2024-06-03 - AMPHIBIANS Earth.com (Telluride, Colo., May 29) — Scientists have long been intrigued by the toe-tapping behavior of amphibians. While this phenomenon is well-documented, its purpose has remained shrouded in mystery. Researchers at the U. of I. focused their attention on the dyeing poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius), a species known for its vibrant colors and, of course...
2024-05-17 - Researchers unearth exercise secrets from a biomolecular soup of synthetic innervated muscle tissue. It’s no secret that regular exercise is great for the body and the brain. Scientific studies have shown, time and time again, that physical activity has both short and...