2023-03-17
- 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...
- 2023-01-11 - With help from the Champaign Public Library, Beckman researchers led by Professor Liz Stine-Morrow demonstrated that regular, engaged leisure reading can...
- 2023-01-11 - 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 most...
- 2022-08-11 - Science News (Washington, D.C., Aug. 4) – "Scientists turned dead spiders into robots": In a new field dubbed “necrobotics,” researchers converted the corpses of wolf spiders into grippers that can manipulate objects. Rashid Bashir, a bioengineer at the U. of I. who wasn’t involved in the new study, says spiders can definitely offer lessons. “There’s a lot to be learned...
2022-02-10 - Beckman researchers use artificial intelligence and advanced imaging to distinguish healthy cells from injured cells. Treating cancer patients and developing biopharmaceutical drugs depends on making the distinction between a healthy live cell and a sickly dead cell. The state of the cell can indicate whether a cancer treatment is working or a new type of medicine is effective....- 2022-01-31 - Mark Hauber, a professor of evolution, ecology, and environment, is one of 14 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members to be elected 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hauber, the Harley Jones Van Cleave Professor of Host-Parasite Interactions, is a neuroethologist, behavioral ecologist and comparative psychologist whose work focuses on the...
2022-01-14 - Aadeel Akhtar received his MS in Engineering and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in December 2017. His dissertation, "Mechanisms for enabling closed-loop upper limb sensorimotor prosthetic control," was the culmination of his research on prosthetic limbs driven by an encounter he had as a child with a young girl in Pakistan who had been missing a leg....
2021-12-02 - The University of Illinois has recently shared a new "Mental Health and Self Care" resource page. The university understands that many may need to find resources for their own struggles or for someone they know.
2021-11-07 - This year's SfN Poster Night, held on October 26th, 2021, was a rousing success. The Neuroscience Program holds the SfN Night each year as a preview to the Society for Neuroscience's Annual Meeting. Attendees include faculty, researchers, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students from all across the campus. The presenters are given an opportunity to showcase their work to a small...
2021-09-28 - Cockatiels, one of the world’s most favored pet parrots, don’t just masterfully mimic. In fact, a new study shows that they can spontaneously join in a song—much like humans do—drawing us closer to our winged ancestors than previously thought. After teaching his three male cockatiels a rendition of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse song, Yoshimasa Seki, the paper’s author, played his birds a...
2021-09-28 - Over a decade ago, behavioral ecologist Diane Colombelli-Négrel was wiring superb fairy wrens’ nests to record the birds’ sounds when she noticed something odd. Mother fairy wrens sang while incubating their eggs, even though it would have made more sense to keep quiet to avoid attracting predators. The discovery “was a bit of an accident,” says Colombelli-Négrel, of Flinders University in...
2021-09-17 - SEP 10, 2021 3:30 PM BY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Blame Jean... We always thought that we would continue teaching and working in our offices every day until we couldn’t any longer! After all, each fall in EPSY 407 Liz taught her students that an age-integrated life course in...
2021-09-15 - In Memoriam: Albert Feng, professor, former head of molecular and integrative physiology, former director neuroscience Albert Feng, a passionate and beloved scholar who studied the neural basis of sound communication, has passed away. A virtual memorial service will be held Sept. 18. His obituary may be viewed here....
2021-06-20 - New moms at risk of experiencing “baby blues” after childbirth tend to display a different pattern of brain activity compared to mothers who are not afflicted by the condition, according to new research published in PLOS One. The new findings indicate that mothers’ neural responsiveness to their...
2021-06-03 - "As a behavioral ecologist studying nestlings in bird nests, I have always known that baby birds respond to sounds in their environment, whether it be the rustling of leaves or the parents calling out to them," Mark Erno Hauber, one of the researchers who carried out...