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MBM Faculty Jonathan Sweedler has been selected to receive the 2019 CASSS Award in December. The Award is presented for Outstanding Achievements in Separation Science by the CASSS professional academic society.
Sweedler was selected because of his contributions to capillary …
Congratulations to MBM faculty Brad Sutton, who was recently named a University Scholar! The award recognizes his achievements in research, teaching, and service and is offered through the University Scholars Program, which supports outstanding faculty to help their scholarly activities. …
Congratulations to MBM faculty Rashid Bashir, who has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow. The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made …
The MBM Program’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Martha Gillette, delivered the Beckman Institute Director’s Seminar March 7 on “The Clocks that Time Us: Dynamics in Brain Metabolism and Sleep.”
Abstract: Our behaviors—eating, learning, sleeping—are shaped by a clock in the brain. …
Congratulations to MBM faculty Gabriel Popescu, who recently published the first volume of his six-volume book Principles of Biophotonics, a textbook to help readers learn basic concepts and methods related to the field of biomedical optics.
Congratulations to MBM faculty Hyunjoon Kong and Rashid Bashir, MBM trainee Gelson Pagan-Diaz, and MBM Frontiers lecturer Marni Boppart for the recognition of their research into neuron integration on muscle fibers!
Their work was recently published in an Advanced Science …
This October was a great month for MBM faculty Rashid Bashir. First, he was named the new Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign October 10, and then received the 2018 Robert A. Pritzker …
Congratulations to MBM faculty Gabi Popescu, who received the 2018 Innovation Award by Microscopy Today!
The award was bestowed for the development of Gradient Light Interference Microscopy (GLIM), a low-coherence interference microscopy system. GLIM is a new method that solves …
MBM faculty Brad Sutton and Rashid Bashir delivered lectures at Carle Foundation Hospital September 19, 2018. The talks were part of the “Bench-to-Bedside Series,” a collaboration between the Department of Internal Medicine at Carle Foundation Hospital and the Beckman Institute, …
Congratulations to MBM faculty Jonathan Sweedler, who recently received the American Diabetes Visionary Award and the 2018 Torbern Bergman Medal from the Swedish Chemical Society!
Sweedler was among six researchers to whom The American Diabetes Association presented awards for the …