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Graduate Students Make Nasal Swabs for COVID-19 Testing

In honor of Graduate Student Appreciation Week, learn how students at the Beckman Institute raced to fabricate nasal swabs needed for COVID-19 testing.

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    Researchers at the Children's Environmental Health Research Center at Illinois use infrared eye tracking to determine if chemicals are negatively impacting children's cognitive development.

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    Contractors delivering a Bruker 9.4 Tesla preclinical animal MRI system at the Beckman Institute on June 25, 2020.

    Read more here...
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    Washing your hands is one of the simplest steps you can take to keep you and your community healthy.

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    Chancellor Robert Jones offers some words of gratitude to the students, staff and faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in the final days of an unprecedented year.

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    University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen addresses the many ways that the U of I community is rising to the challenge of these unprecedented times to persevere in the fight against a global pandemic.

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    April 10 is chemist, inventor, and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman's birthday. Born in 1900, Beckman lived to be 104 years old and was responsible for establishing a number of research institutes across the country -- including the Beckman...

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    Jeffrey Moore discusses bio-inspired, vascularized materials and how manufacturers will take inspiration from the natural world to create better products. Moore discusses how many manufactured goods of the future will include vascular networks that...

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    As you celebrate Pi Day (March 14)... whether it's by eating pie, looking for $3.14 deals, or discussing the mathematical constant... we thought you might enjoy this video.

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    Neuroscientist Justin Rhodes examines how clownfish brains change from male to female... and can have a female brain in a male body.

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    Mariana Kersh and her Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory students teach young girls about mechanical engineering at a University of Illinois basketball camp.

    Kersh is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and...

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    Is cellphone use causing hornlike spikes to grow on the back of people's skulls? Professor Mariana Kersh, quoted by @CNN, says the widely publicized #hornstudy doesn't back it up.

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