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Mentor calls for adults with Down syndrome to join Speech Accessibility Project
Mentor Alexandria Barkhimer invites people with Down syndrome to join the Speech Accessibility Project. Led by researchers at the University of Illinois, the project aims to collect voice recordings from participants to improve voice recognition technology, benefiting the Down syndrome community and other individuals with disabilities. Learn more at speechaccessibilityproject.com
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Steve Maren to lead Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Steve Maren, a neuroscientist who studies the neurobiology of emotional learning and memory, will become the next director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He will join the...
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Steve Maren to lead Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (1 minute)
Steve Maren, a neuroscientist who studies the neurobiology of emotional learning and memory, will become the next director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He will join the...
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Speech Accessibility Project call for adults with Down syndrome (2-min)
Join Charlotte Woodward and other adults with Down syndrome by participating in the Speech Accessibility Project led by researchers at the University of Illinois. The project aims to collect voice samples from participants to improve voice...
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Speech Accessibility Project call for adults with Down syndrome (1-min)
Join Charlotte Woodward and other adults with Down syndrome by participating in the Speech Accessibility Project led by researchers at the University of Illinois. The project aims to collect voice samples from participants to improve voice...
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Cicada sounds and hearing disorders
Fatima Husain answers questions about how the loud sounds that cicadas make can impact people with tinnitus and other hearing disorders and how we can all protect ourselves from these sounds of summer. Husain is a professor of speech and hearing...
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How cicada sounds might help people with tinnitus (#shorts)
Fatima Husain answers questions about how the loud sounds that cicadas make can impact people with tinnitus and how we can all protect ourselves from these sounds of summer. Husain is a professor of speech and hearing science at the University of...
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Timelapse of X-ray microscope installation (#shorts)
The installation of a ZEISS Xradia 630 Versa micro-CT scanner in a minute! The 3D X-ray microscope was installed and calibrated in the Microscopy Suite at the Beckman Institute in early 2024. The microscope is the first of its kind with life science...
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Timelapse of micro-CT scanner installation
The installation of a ZEISS Xradia 630 Versa micro-CT scanner in minutes! The 3D X-ray microscope was installed and calibrated in the Microscopy Suite at the Beckman Institute in early 2024. The microscope is the first of its kind with life science...
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Happy Star Wars Day!
The Beckman Café will be reopening later this year. In the meantime... May the Fourth be with you!
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Happy Star Wars Day!
The Beckman Café will be reopening later this year. In the meantime... May the Fourth be with you!
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NIH and IKIDS explore links between children's health and environment
The NIH's renewed support of the IKIDS program allows researchers at the University of Illinois to continue exploring links between the environment and children's health. This research is part of the Environmental influences on Child Health...
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Wheelchair of the future, the ballbot (4K) (EMMY nominated)
The ballbot wheelchair may be the future of mobility assistance. Researchers from across the University of Illinois campus have created a Star Wars-inspired robotic wheelchair that uses a single, rolling ball to provide a handsfree, intuitive, and...
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Linking nutrition, cognition, and brain health
Using a revolutionary data fusion technique, Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience researchers Chris Zwilling and Tanveer Talukdar investigate the links between what we eat and the health and function of our brains as we age. Zwilling and Talukdar are...
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What animals get MRIs? (using LEGO bricks)
Biomedical Imaging Center Aaron Anderson quizzes his children about what animals can get MRI scans using LEGO bricks.