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ECE Assistant Professor Olgica Milenkovic believes a cure for cancer could be a reality, thanks to cross-disciplinary research she is conducting with Illinois colleagues in microbiology and pathobiology.

ECE PhD candidate Anh Van was recently selected to participate in the prestigious fourth annual National Graduate Student Research Festival sponsored by the National Institute of Health (NIH).

A team of students from the University of Illinois won second place in the 2009 Solar Decathlon design competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

ECE Professor Stephen Boppart is the 2009 recipient of the Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award.

ECE senior Martin McCormick once thought mind reading was a talent reserved for superheroes in the comics. But he’s not so sure anymore.

ECE Professor Yi Ma, graduate students Shankar Rao and Hossein Mobahi, and 2006 PhD ECE alumnus Allen Yang won the 2009 Best Student Paper Award (Sang Uk Lee Award) at the Asian Conference on Computer Vision.

The winners of the Best Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology are Justin Koepke and Joshua Wood, graduate students in ECE Professor Joe Lyding’s research group.

It took students from departments across the Illinois campus working for countless hours over nearly two years, but the Gable Home has made its move from south campus to the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

High up in the ionosphere, plasma bubbles invisible to the naked eye wreak havoc on communication and navigation systems back on Earth. ECE Assistant Professor Jonathan Makela hopes to change that through the Remote Equatorial Nighttime Observatory of Ionospheric Regions (RENOIR) project.

John Rogers, the Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering Innovation in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and an affiliate of ECE, has been named a 2009 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.