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Kristin Hoganson and Corey Van Landingham
Two LAS professors receive Guggenheim Fellowships
Kristin Hoganson and Corey Van Landingham will receive support for research and poetry project
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Bruce Rhoads
Bruce Rhoads on collaboration, friendship, and the environmental impact of war
Professor relies on a decades-long partnership to study the destruction of a dam
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Researchers
Breaking open the AI black box
Researchers find key chemistry for solar energy and beyond
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Huimin Zhao
National Science Foundation funds new iBioFoundry at Illinois
Project will advance protein and cellular engineering
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Ilana Redstone
Book: Healing America’s divisiveness requires changing how we think
Sociology professor Ilana Redstone spells out the dangers of blind certainty
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James Webb Space Telescope undergoing testing in 2017
U of I astronomers lead ambitious survey with the James Webb Space Telescope
Researchers expect the new observational data to transform our understanding of how stars and galaxies formed
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Antoinette Burton
Illinois historian’s book provides introduction to gender history
Antoinette Burton's work also sheds light on cultural views of the topic
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Researchers in laboratory
Scientists use evolution to bioengineer new pathways to sustainable energy, pharmaceuticals
Chemistry researchers engineer bacteria-yeast hybrids to generate cellular energy, among other tasks
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Former President Barack Obama looks at May Berenbaum as a woman in a military uniform holds the National Medal of Science
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