Tissue Microenvironment (TIME) Day Symposium

Tissue Microenvironment (TIME) Day Symposium

Image of TiMe Symposium Participants. The TiMe Cohort hosted the second-annual Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Day Symposium and Poster Session on April 13, 2018 at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. There were over seventy attendees from 14...
Roy Dar Earns Campus Teaching Award

Roy Dar Earns Campus Teaching Award

Image of Assistant Professor Roy Dar.  Bioengineering Assistant Professor Roy Dar received the Illinois Student Senate Teaching Excellence Award at the end of the spring 2018 semester. This award, which is run entirely by students, is presented each year to about 5...
Why Cancer Needs Engineering

Why Cancer Needs Engineering

Image of Rohit Bhargava Cancer. The word can evoke fear in anyone, and its diagnosis can come like a thief in the night. The American Cancer Society reports that nearly 1 out of 3 people in the United States will develop some form of cancer in their lifetimes. While...
2017 ResearcHStart Summer Program Comes to a Close

2017 ResearcHStart Summer Program Comes to a Close

2017 Research Start Group Approximately 100 students, mentors, family, and friends came to the new Cancer Center at Illinois – located at the Beckman Institute – to celebrate the accomplishments of 24 researcHStart students. Guests enjoyed spending time...
2017 ResearcHStart Summer Program Begins

2017 ResearcHStart Summer Program Begins

2017 ResearcHStart Cohort The Cancer Community at Illinois’ third researcHStart summer program has just begun! Eight high school students from the surrounding Champaign-Urbana area are spending the next eight weeks working on cancer-focused projects. Students...