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Coding a Healthier Future: Teaching Health Literacy Through Robotics

Coding a Healthier Future: Teaching Health Literacy Through Robotics

As a community health intern at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), Fiona found herself stepping far outside her comfort zone—and into the world of robots and 3D printing. “I was not specifically interested in computer science before interning with CCIL,” she...

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Postdoctoral researcher Indrajit Srivastava, left, and electrical and computer engineering professor Viktor Gruev led a team of researchers developing new cancer imaging agents that can light up two cancer biomarkers when lit by one fluorescent wavelength.

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