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electron microscope

Pilot research institutes kindle interdisciplinary activity across UIC

Rob Mitchum | Posted on April 15, 2024

Lithium (black tiles) mediates the conversion of nitrogen (blue blocks) and hydrogen (white blocks) to ammonia.

UIC engineers ‘symphonize’ cleaner ammonia production

Rob Mitchum | Posted on April 02, 2024

MIE Professor and Department Head Houshang Darabi

New program aimed at helping low-income, high-achieving students

David Staudacher | Posted on March 27, 2024

Human hepatocytes stained for metabolic enzyme Cytochrome P450 3A4 (abbreviated CYP3A4) on left.

Research hopes to understand interactions between intestine and liver

Meghan King | Posted on March 27, 2024

Pai-Yen Chen

Pai-Yen Chen named UIC Rising Star

Andrea Poet | Posted on March 07, 2024

University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering BME Tolou Shokuhfar (L) and MIE Alex Yarin in the STEM (ARM) room.

Unveiling the secrets of plastic biodegradation

Meghan King | Posted on February 15, 2024

Researchers built an AI model that generated over 100,000 possible metal-organic frameworks with potential for carbon capture technology.

Researchers generate a carbon capture breakthrough using AI, physics and supercomputers

Rob Mitchum | Posted on February 14, 2024

Myunghee Kim, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Myunghee Kim receives NSF CAREER award to investigate robotic prosthetic technology

David Staudacher | Posted on February 13, 2024

BME students Angela Mitevska (left) and Citlally Santacruz capture high-speed video of stretching a flexible bottomed 96-well plate for strain quantification in a lab.

Undergraduates first authors on neurotrauma paper

Meghan King | Posted on February 07, 2024

Cornelia Caragea

Health Data Science Consortium holds first meeting:

Andrea Poet | Posted on February 05, 2024

Aerial shot of Lake Michigan

UIC brings research, workforce development to Great Lakes Water Innovation Engine

Rob Mitchum | Posted on January 31, 2024

Rendering of a abandoned city

Depopulation’s impact on infrastructure

David Staudacher | Posted on January 24, 2024

Micropatterned cultures of atrial stem cells and fibroblasts (right) spontaneously formed muscle-like structures, unlike unpatterned cultures of stem cells alone (left).

Atrial fibrillation in a dish enables drug discovery, personalized medicine

Rob Mitchum | Posted on January 22, 2024

Amin Salehi-Khojin, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at UIC

Department of Energy ‘Earthshot’ grants fund UIC research on green tech advances

Rob Mitchum | Posted on January 16, 2024

University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering’s Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology 3rd Annual Research Day, November 6, 2023.

CBQB hosts third annual research day

Meghan King | Posted on January 11, 2024

UIC graduate students receive Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Award

Meghan King | Posted on January 11, 2024

Hulya Seferoglu and Erdem Koyuncu

Seferoglu, Koyuncu build testbed for edge computing systems

Andrea Poet | Posted on January 08, 2024

Sudip K Mazumder

Mazumder uses power electronics to improve electrosurgery

Andrea Poet | Posted on January 08, 2024

Barbara Di Eugenio

Di Eugenio named Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Andrea Poet | Posted on December 18, 2023

Cornelia Caragea

Caragea joins NSF as program director

Andrea Poet | Posted on December 14, 2023

Electric truck

Study to examine impact of electric vehicles on air quality, the environment, and public health

David Staudacher | Posted on December 01, 2023

Ryan Corey

When cellphones on the table are welcome

Andrea Poet | Posted on December 01, 2023

SAE at UIC with new electric Baja car

UIC students race the school’s first electric car

David Staudacher | Posted on November 16, 2023

The UIC student organization Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) recently designed, built, and installed a solar refrigerator for The Love Fridge Chicago at its Chicago Patchwork Farms location.

Students build solar refrigerator for Chicago nonprofit

David Staudacher | Posted on November 07, 2023

MIE Professor Kenneth Brezinsky

Professor Brezinsky awarded $1.2 million Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant

David Staudacher | Posted on October 31, 2023