Materials Science and Engineering Headlines
MatSE Grad receives Fulbright
Gordon Nangmenyi, Ph.D. student in Economy's group, has received a Fulbright Award. Nangmenyi will spend the next year working with researchers at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa, developing and testing an alternative water disinfection system for use in rural areas of South Africa.
Published Date: May 7, 2008
Rogers Appointed Flory-Founder Chair
John Rogers has been appointed as the first Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering Innovation at the University of Illinois.
Published Date: April 29, 2008
Foldable stretchable circuits
John Rogers and his colleagues have demonstrated that it is possible to use ultrathin silicon to build entire sheets of foldable and stretchable circuits made of devices such as transistors, amplifiers, and logic gates.
Published Date: March 28, 2008
MatSE Faculty recognized as APS Oustanding Referees
David Cahill and John Weaver were recognized by the American Physical Society as "Outstanding Referees" for having been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals.
Published Date: March 19, 2008
Researchers Discover How Stealthy HIV Protein Gets Into Cells
Scientists have known for more than a decade that a protein associated with the HIV virus is good at crossing cell membranes, but they didn't know how it worked. A multidisciplinary team from the U of I led by Gerard Wong has solved the mystery, and their findings could improve the design of therapeutic agents that cross a variety of membrane types.
Published Date: March 18, 2008