Department of Chemistry – Among the three faculty members to be awarded fall 2019 support from the Department of Chemistry’s Discovery Fund are Beckman’s Joaquín Rodríguez-López and Yi Lu. The fall 2019 round of funding will support research on enhanced MRI sensitivity, genetic engineering, and improved environmental pollutant monitoring.

Illinois News Bureau – If you want something done, ask a busy person – or so the saying goes. According to a new paper co-written by Dolores Albarracin, a professor psychology and marketing who studies attitudes and persuasion psychology, if you want to sell something quickly, it helps to try a busy consumer. “What we found is that walking involves activating action representations that in turn promote other actions outside of the context of walking,” Albarracin said. 

School of Molecular and Cellular Biology – Emad Tajkhorshid, a professor of biochemistry, has been awarded the 2020 Thomas E. Thompson award from the Biophysical Society. The award recognizes his outstanding contribution in the field of membrane structure and function. The award will be presented at the Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup symposium during the annual meeting.