Department News
Professor Robert Hulsizer, former UI Physics professor, has died. (6/29/2008)
"Dear Diary: We made it to Nigeria..." Read about the Illinois EWA students, including physics major Katia Sussman, who are bringing safe water to a village in Africa. (6/24/2008)
Klaus Schulten has received the International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology's Award in Computational Biology 2008 (6/23/2008)
Check out the new cosmology@home website and join this exciting BOINC distributed computing project, brought to you by Ben Wandelt. (6/18/2008)
Alek Aksimentiev receives 2008 IBM Faculty Fellow Award in international competition, one of only three physicists to be so honored this year (6/16/2008)
Mark Neubauer named 2008-09 NCSA Faculty Fellow; his project is "Petascale Distributed Computing for Terascale Physics" (6/12/2008)
Illinois' researchers Taekjip Ha and Peter Cornish report that they are the first to observe the dynamic, ratchet-like movements of single ribosomal molecules in the act of building proteins from genetic blueprints. (6/11/2008)
Richard Weaver explains the beginnings of ambient-noise tomography in this week's Nature. (5/12/2008)
Undergraduate Trent Graham receives prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. (5/8/2008)
Engineering Physics undergrad Katia Sussman's Engineers Without Borders team wins $75k EPA "People, Prosperity, and Planet" (P3) grant to implement sustainable water development project in rural Nigeria. (5/2/2008)