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This semester featured the grand opening of Ted’s Café in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology!
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Researchers have found that virtually staining using AI can improve the use of medical images in certain cases, in other situations it may actually decrease the ability to get useful information from those images.
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ALT Mark Anastasio, Yang Liu and Sourya Sengupta
Beckman researchers have found that hyperactivity of neurons in the auditory cortex and the reaction of these neurons to an unusually broad range of frequencies contribute to distorted sound processing in rats.
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Inspired by an artist’s stencils, Qian Chen's research team has developed atomic-level precision patterning on nanoparticle surfaces, allowing them to “paint” gold nanoparticles with polymers to give them an array of new shapes and functions.
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ALT Illustration of atomic stencils
Can't wait to see you all at tomorrow's STEM Crawl and screening of "Observer"!
Visit DT Champaign businesses for fun science activities from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The first 200 STEM crawl participants will receive a free movie ticket for the 3 p.m. showing!
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ALT Flyer with information for the Beckman STEM crawl, including particpating businesses: Dark Tower Comics Exile on Main Fire Doll Studio The Literary Mad Goat Coffee Needful Things Warehouse Gallery The Orpheum Champaign Planted Plant Mode Pour Bros The Space Suzu’s Bakery And information about the 3 p.m. movie showing at the Virgina Theatre in downtown Champaign. The first 200 STEM crawl participants will receive a free movie ticket provided by the Beckman Institute, CSBS, IGB and NCSA
ALT Virginia Theatre marquee that says, "IPM and the Beckman Institute present "Observer," Saturday, Oct. 4, 3 p.m.
Ted’s Café at the Beckman Institute
✅ Complete renovation
✅ Glass walls and welcoming décor
✅ New chef and menu
✅ New dining room
🩷 Ribbon cutting today!!!
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New research from a team led by Psychology Professor Caterina Gratton is advancing how we understand and measure inhibitory control—an essential component of self-regulation.
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Propelled by firsthand encounters with individuals affected by political turmoil in Venezuela, Beckman postdoctoral researcher Ángel David Arellano Pérez embarked on a four-country research journey about fear memory. Learn more his experiences:
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MRI researchers Paul Camacho and Yibo Zhao recently received trainee awards at @ISMRM. Learn more about their research on understanding MRI brain measurements and mapping brain metabolism, respectively.
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ALT Headshots of Paul Comacho, left, and Yibo Zhao.
Join us in congratulating the 2025 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows!
They're studying a variety of topics, from inflammation and infant stress to new methods for creating polymers, understanding optical devices & monitoring the brain.
Learn more: beckman.illinois.edu/news/ar…
The Speech Accessibility Project and AImpower.org will soon begin recruiting people who stutter. The project is improving speech recognition tech for people with diverse voices.
➡️AImpower's announcement: aimpower.org/2025/07/01/a-ne…
➡️ Sign up: forms.illinois.edu/sec/20360…
Ava Hampe is an annotator for the Speech Accessibility Project. Her work is improving speech recognition technology for people with disabilities.
"I have never met the individuals whose speech I transcribe, their answers make me feel I know them well."
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Congratulations to our 2025 graduate fellows, who are tackling interdisciplinary challenges in neuroscience, bioengineering and materials science.
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We're thrilled that @Forbes included our Speech Accessibility Project in its first-ever #ForbesAccessibility100. We're proud to be recognized as an innovator in #accessibility!
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Read our story about what this honor means to the #SpeechAccessibilityProject's leader, @hasegawajohnson
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ALT An older couple work on a laptop with a microphone attached.
Beckman fellowship and award recipients are conducting research that will improve the lives of people with speech disorders, Type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s, Fragile X, tinnitus, mental illness, brain tumors and more.
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Researchers developed a computational model that digs into the chemical recipe of polymer manufacturing to provide predictive control over how materials self-organize. They published their work in @PNASNews
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ALT A group of researchers at the Beckman Institute
Join us June 13, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Beckman for the Molecule Maker Lab ribbon-cutting!
🔗Please register if you plan to join in person or via livestream: forms.illinois.edu/sec/20159…
ALT Group photo of MML scientists and staff
The semester may be ending, but the (dis)Ability Design Studio is still working hard to create innovations that are useful for and usable by everyone.
#Disability #design #community @UofIllinois @ArtDesignIL @FAAatIllinois @uofigrainger @PsychIllinois @ILLINOISmed – at Urbana, IL