02/05/2020 - Two grants will fund interdisciplinary research at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, including a look at how neurons and muscle cells communicate with each other and also to...
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01/24/2020 - It’s not just the chanciness of sample preparation; it’s also the lack of access that frustrates Claudio Grosman, a biophysicist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who studies a...
12/13/2019 - Stress in humans and animals is linked to shrinkage of the hippocampus. Regular practice of yoga can help enhance nerve connections in many of the same brain regions that benefit from aerobic...
11/14/2019 - Cowbirds outsource parenting to other species, but an innate password tells their children to copy cowbird songs. Now, a new paper describes how the cowbird chicks may learn to recognize and sing...
11/14/2019 - A new study, co-authored by Northeastern University professor Charles Hillman and Naiman Khan at the University of Illinois, found that drinking water and staying hydrated increased children’s...
10/07/2019 - Rogers and Mudar said the primary research aims are to understand challenges adults with cognitive disability deal with every day, and to identify existing and emerging technology that can help....
09/10/2019 - A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that honey bees can remember positive and negative experiences—such as taking care of their young or fending off an...
08/23/2019 - The Juvenile Detention Center Outreach program, conceived by neuroscience student Ian Traniello, has been running for five years. To date, roughly a dozen neuroscience students have participated,...
08/15/2019 - According to bee expert and University of Illinois professor Gene E. Robinson, urban environments like Chicago are actually great for bees. There are often less pesticides and a wider variety of...
08/09/2019 - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will fund two projects for research on human performance optimization within United States war fighters at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and...
07/25/2019 - On Thursday, July 18th, the University of Illinois held "Illini Fest." This first ever event, initiated by the Chief Marketing Officer, Eric Minor, was designed to showcase the University of...
07/25/2019 - Neuroscientist shines new light on a natural phenomenon: The anemonefish is a gender-bending marvel. It starts out as a male, but can switch to female when circumstances allow, for example, when the...
07/24/2019 - Beckman Institute - 07/24/19 Fatima Husain’s group has published one paper and has another forthcoming that measure the behavioral, functional, and structural changes associated with using...
07/05/2019 - The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, established by President Clinton in 1996, is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering...
06/20/2019 - Jonathan Sweedler was recently voted the 2019 winner of CASSS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Separation Science. His contributions to capillary electrophoresis, detection...
