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$3M Department of Defense award to support UIC STEM research program
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
A multidisciplinary research team from the University of Illinois Chicago has been awarded a $3 million, three-year U.S. Department of Defense award to establish an undergraduate research mentoring program in science, technology, engineering & math.
UIC physicist earns innovation award from Microscopy Today
Thursday, September 3, 2020
In two recently published studies, University of Illinois Chicago physicist Robert Klie and colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Nion Company developed and demonstrated ultra high-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy...
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Getting to Know Goldwater Scholar Lopa Bhatt
Monday, May 11, 2020
Lopa Bhatt, a physics major studying electron microsopy, was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for the 2020-2021 academic year. The nationally competitive award is widely recognized as the most prestigious scholarship available…

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