Beckman Institute Connections
Issue: August 2011
John Rogers Awarded Lemelson-MIT Prize
Beckman Institute researcher John Rogers
was recently awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize for Health and Energy Innovations. He will
be awarded $500,000 in recognition of his work that the program says proves
"technological entrepreneurship can have groundbreaking impact when inventive concepts
stretch across disparate fields."
Illinois Research Shines at DOE EFRC Summit
Several University of Illinois researchers
participated in the DOE Energy
Frontier Research Center (EFRC) Summit in Washington, D.C. Jennifer Lewis
reported that work by John Rogers and Ralph Nuzzo on flexible photovoltaics was showcased
by Steven Chu (Secretary of Energy) in his Keynote Address. Eric Issacs (Director,
Argonne National Laboratory) highlighted work by Jeff Moore,
Nancy
Sottos, and Scott White. He mentioned their work on self-healing materials
for lithium ion batteries in his talk. Congratulations to these researchers for
having their pioneering work recognized at the meeting, which included more than 1,000
participants from academia, national laboratories, industry, and federal agencies.
Fifth Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Added to 2011
Class
A fifth Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow has been added to the to class of
four that was previously announced on March 3, 2011. Jonathan Fan will be joining the
Fellows
program from Harvard University where he earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics in
May, 2010 and continued to work as a researcher. Jonathan’s research
proposal focuses on two complimentary concepts that target improvements in cancer tumor
treatment. The other members of the 2011 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows class
are: Kyle Mathewson, Meredith Silberstein, Joseph Toscano, and Thomas van Dijk.
Kim Chosen as New Carle Foundation Hospital - Beckman Institute
Fellow
Jongsick Kim has been chosen as the new Carle Foundation Hospital - Beckman Institute
Fellow. Kim is the second Fellow chosen for the program, which was started in 2008 as a
three-year appointment for a recent Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. interested in conducting
oncology-related research at the Beckman Institute.
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Beckman Institute Researchers In the News
Beckman researchers have been making headlines! Check out the following stories from
April 1, 2011 - May 31, 2011:
This issue of Connections covers the period of June 1, 2011 - July 31, 2011. For more research news and information about Beckman Institute faculty, staff, and students please visit www.beckman.illinois.edu.
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