I-MRSEC’s Virtual REU to Expose Undergrads to Research, Provide Training in Needed Skills

Eleven undergraduate students are participating in the I-MRSEC (Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center) virtual REU this summer from May…

Crumpled graphene makes ultra-sensitive cancer DNA detector

Illustration of a blue sheet of rippled graphene with round and long shapes that represent DNA and molecules sensed.
Graphene-based biosensors could usher in an era of liquid biopsy, detecting DNA cancer markers circulating in a patient’s blood or serum. But current designs need a lot of DNA. In a new study,…

Cena y Ciencias—Science Demonstrated in Spanish by Hispanic Role Models

Pizza. Exciting demos (including one featuring a blowtorch!). Hands-on activities related to temperature. These are some of the fun things a group of Kindergarten through 5th graders from two Urbana…

Bending with Slip

Photograph of the team of researchers leading this effort standing together with a crystal model of graphene.
Read a recent "News and Views" article published by Nature Materials.

Aluru wins ASME Ted Belytschko Award

Photograph of Professor Aluru.
Narayana Aluru was named the recipient of the 2020…

Study: evidence for propagating Majorana quasiparticles in a topological superconductor

Physicist Vidya Madhavan and colleagues find evidence for propagating Majorana quasiparticles in a topological superconductor. This work was supported by a SuperSEED project.

I-MRSEC Deputy Director Cathy Murphy Receives 2020 ACS National Award

Portrait of Prof. Catherine Murphy.
I-MRSEC Deputy Director Catherine Murphy was recently awarded the 2020 ACS National Award in Inorganic Chemistry "for pioneering research on the synthesis and properties of gold nanocrystals."  

I-MRSEC Grad Student Leem receives MRS honors, Stanford fellowship

The Materials Research Society (MRS) has named MechSE PhD student Juyoung Leem the winner of the 2019 Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award. MRS also selected…

NSF Release: Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets

Group of faculty and graduate student researchers standing in the lab.
New research by NSF-funded engineers at the…

Spanish Language Webinar on Applying to Graduate School Now Available

A webinar was recently held that aims to shed light on the process of applying to graduate programs in the U.S., particularly in science and engineering, for those outside the U.S. The event was…