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Engineering Open House highlights ingenuity
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Wild and wacky Rube Goldberg machines, robots fighting for possession of wooden blocks, and more than 120 fun-filled exhibits are among the attractions awaiting visitors to the 84th annual Engineering Open House at the University of Illinois. The event, organized by students in the Engineering Council at Illinois, will take place from […]
Puzzling height of polar clouds linked to solar radiation
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Scientists have discovered why polar mesospheric clouds over the South Pole are nearly two miles higher than those over the North Pole. A variation in solar radiation – a result of Earth’s elliptical orbit – is responsible, they say. In the Jan. 29 online version of the journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists […]
New algorithm speeds simulations of complex fluids
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Computer simulations play an essential role in the study of complex fluids – liquids that contain particles of different sizes. Such liquids have numerous applications, which depend on a fundamental understanding of their behavior. But the two main techniques for the atomistic simulation of liquids – the molecular dynamics technique and the […]
New light-emitting transistor could revolutionize electronics industry
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Put the inventor of the light-emitting diode and the maker of the world’s fastest transistor together in a research laboratory and what kinds of bright ideas might surface? One answer is a light-emitting transistor that could revolutionize the electronics industry. Professors Nick Holonyak Jr. and Milton Feng at the University of Illinois […]
Five Illinois professors elected as 2003 AAAS Fellows
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Five University of Illinois researchers – Ilesanmi Adesida, Craig M. Bethke, Keh-Yung (Norman) Cheng, Jeffrey S. Moore and Robert J. Novak – are among 348 scientists elected as 2003 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The new fellows will be formally recognized Feb. 14 for their contributions that […]
Distinguished NASA scientist to present public talk
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – David Morrison, a senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute, will present the sixth talk in the department of astronomy’s Icko Iben Jr. Distinguished Lectureship at 4 p.m. Nov. 5 in Foellinger Auditorium, 709 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana. The talk, “Cosmic Collisions: How Astronomers are Saving the World,” is free and open […]
National Science Foundation funds new nanoscale research center at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to create a nanoscale science and engineering center with an emphasis on nanomanufacturing. The grant will provide $12.5 million in funding over five years, with the possibility of a five-year renewal. The Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing […]
Illinois professor wins Nobel Prize in physics
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Anthony J. Leggett, a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics and a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics. He shares the prize with Alexei A. Abrikosov of Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., and Vitaly L. Ginzburg of […]
Illinois professor wins Packard Fellowship
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Scott K. Silverman, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is among 16 U.S. researchers named 2003 Packard Fellows in natural sciences by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. He will receive $625,000 during the next five years to enhance his research efforts. Silverman, 31, joined the Illinois […]
Illinois scholar elected fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – James Economy, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Election to the American Academy is an honor that acknowledges the best of all scholarly fields and professions. Among the academy’s 186 other […]
Three Illinois professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Three University of Illinois faculty members are among the 72 scientists elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of distinguished research and continuing achievements, the academy announced today. The Illinois faculty members chosen are Peter Beak, the Roger Adams Professor of Chemistry; Karl Hess, a Swanlund Professor of […]
Illinois professor to receive global energy prize
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Nick Holonyak Jr., a John Bardeen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as a 2003 recipient of the Global Energy Prize from Russia. He shares the $900,000 prize with Gennady Mesiats of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Yan Douglas […]