U of I, Braskem, and Princeton Receive DOE Grant to Engineer Bioplastic Packaging That's Infinitely Recyclable URBANA, Ill., March 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Department of Energy has granted $2 million over three years to Braskem America, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Princeton University...

University of Illinois Professor's Expertise in Machine Learning for Audio Benefits Creation of New Beatles Documentary URBANA, Ill., March 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- From the first time he used a synthesizer, Illinois Computer Science professor Paris Smaragdis knew that he wanted to learn how technology could make...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Human Avatar Accelerating the Future of Remote Robotics URBANA, Ill., Jan. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For more than three years, a team of graduate students led by Illinois CS professor Kris Hauser has progressed through the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE....

New Model Accurately Describes COVID-19 Waves and Plateaus URBANA, Ill., Dec. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- To better understand the factors governing the wave and plateau dynamics of the spread of COVID-19, a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign launches first-of-its-kind Master of Science in Biomedical Image Computing degree URBANA, Ill., Oct. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has launched a new Master of Science in Biomedical Image Computing (M.S. in BIC) degree program...