Congratulations to MBM faculty who made the Fall 2021 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students at the University of Illinois! The list is based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) that students …
Winter 2022 Faculty Achievements
MBM faculty continue to excel in their fields. Here are a few highlights of recent accomplishments:
In January, Gabriel Popescu received the 2022 International Society for Optics and Photonics Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics for his outstanding achievements in …
Martha Gillette wins 2021 Vision and Spirit Award
Congratulations to our PI, Martha Gillette, for winning the 2021 Vision and Spirit Award at Beckman Institute! The annual award recognizes faculty who have fostered collaboration in their research and exemplify the vision of Arnold Beckman, the Institute’s founder.
“She’s …
MBM Faculty Ranked as Excellent, Fall 2020
Congratulations to MBM faculty who made the Fall 2020 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students at the University of Illinois! The list is based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) that students …
MBM Faculty Ranked as Excellent, Spring 2020
Congratulations to MBM faculty who made the Spring 2020 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students at the University of Illinois! The list is based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) that students …
Collin Kaufman Develops Spinobot
MBM Trainee Collin Kaufman has recently explanted an intact rat’s spinal cord into a biobot with a 3-D muscle system made of engineered tissue. The biological-robot hybrid could pave the way to major medical advances.
“When we looked more deeply …
New Beckman grants compliment MBM research
Multiple MBM faculty and trainees will combine their efforts to facilitate two new grant programs from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Alzheimer’s Foundation, in collaboration with Beckman Institute’s Neurotechnology for Memory and Cognition research group.
Hyunjoon Kong’s research …
Program Highlights, October 2019
The MBM Program started the fall 2019 semester with a bang! We have had a couple of very busy months in September and October. Now that some of the dust has settled, let’s review some highlights from the month of …
Program Highlights, September 2019
The MBM Program started the fall 2019 semester with a bang! We have had a couple of very busy months in September and October. Now that some of the dust has settled, let’s review some highlights from the month of …
Mikhail Kandel publishes article on Epi-illumination
MBM Trainee Mikhail Kandel recently published an article titled “Epi-illumination gradient light interference microscopy for imaging opaque structures” in Nature Communications.
The article, published in October 2019, details how Kandel et al. built a new kind of microscope for …