Jessie Chin, an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences, has been named a faculty affiliate at the Beckman Institute. Her research focus includes information foraging; human-computer interaction; health literacy, communication, and informatics; persuasive design; and designing for successful aging and chronic illness prevention and control.

Kathryn Matlack, an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering, recently became a faculty affiliate at the Beckman Institute. She will collaborate with members of the Molecular Design and Engineering research theme. She is the principal investigator for the Wave Propagation and Metamaterials Laboratory that seeks to understand how waves propagate in complex materials over several length scales. The knowledge can then be used to design efficient and multi-functional materials, structures, and devices.

Chicago Tribune – Cancer Center at Illinois members Aditi Das and David Sarlah were one of nine research teams recently selected to fill gaps in medical marijuana research. Their works seeks to create a library of useful compounds found in cannabis plants. Sarlah, an organic chemist, will make the chemicals, and Das, a professor of comparative biosciences, will run tests to see how they react with mouse immune cells. "There are so many beneficial effects that patients report. We need to know the science behind it," said Das, an affiliate faculty member at the Beckman Institute.