Socio-Hydrology workshop explores the new science of people and water
The availability of water is one of world’s most pressing challenges. The topic is so complex and multi-faceted that scientists have proposed a new science to integrate the perspectives of the natural...
View ArticleIllinois researchers win NSF Frontier Award to enhance cybersecurity of...
Carl Gunter, Roy Campbell, and Klara Nahrstedt--all faculty researchers in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois--have been awarded a $10,000,000 Frontier Award by the National Science...
View ArticleMagnetic charge crystals imaged in artificial spin ice
A team of scientists, led by University of Illinois physicist Peter Schiffer, has reported direct visualization of magnetic charge crystallization in an artificial spin ice material, a first in the...
View ArticleA new pallet for optical fibers
Picasso went blue for some time: mainly monochromatic hues with few bright and warm colors. Yet the so-called Blue Period lasted only a few years. Then pinks and reds and greens began to recur in his...
View ArticleISS team plans around human factors in Mars Mission Competition
The human factor poses the greatest challenge to a manned mission to Mars, an Illinois Space Society (ISS) group of undergraduates learned as they competed and grabbed third place in a national space...
View ArticleThree engineering faculty members named to Center for Advanced Study
The Center for Advanced Study (CAS) has announced nine new appointments to its permanent faculty – one of the highest honors the University of Illinois campus bestows for outstanding scholarship. Three...
View ArticleDark Energy Survey begins mapping southern sky
Illinois provides international astronomical collaboration with camera components, data intensive computing, and scientific analysesTonight, as the sun sinks below the horizon, the world’s most...
View ArticleNews from Engineering at Illinois September 2013
This monthly summary includes excerpts from Illinois in the News, a daily service provided by the University of Illinois News Bureau and other media search tools. This collection of September stories...
View ArticleNIH award combines plasmonic light focusing with nanopore technology for DNA...
An international team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands is advancing a novel form of nanopore...
View ArticleIllinois teams take first, second in AIAA Space Design Competition
When asked to design a space-based solar power system, one Aerospace Engineering at Illinois team responded with a swarm of 24 satellites that could beam power to at least eight locations worldwide....
View ArticleFive CS graduate students among the Class of 2014 Siebel Scholars
Five students from the Department of Computer Science (CS) have been named 2014 Siebel Scholars: Dongjing He, Gaurav Lahoti, Arun Mallya, Stephen Mayhew, and Thomas Zhang.Read More
View ArticleWireless monitoring promises safer railroad bridges
As interest gains in implementing high-speed rail in North America, researchers in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) researchers are developing innovative ways to monitor...
View ArticleKalita honored as ASABE Fellow
Prasanta Kalita, a professor of soil and water resources engineering in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE), was honored at the 2013 American Society of Agricultural and...
View ArticleBinder to head the Illinois Applied Research Institute
Jeffrey L. Binder has been named the director of the Illinois Applied Research Institute (ARI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Read More
View ArticleInvention jet prints nanostructures with self-assembling material
A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries. This approach combines top-down advanced...
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