1+ week, 20+ hour ago  (947+ words) Theodore "Ted" Brown, the founding director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, died Tuesday, March 24, 2026. He was 97 years old. In the fall of 1956, a 28-year-old Brown…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago  (12+ words) Remembering Theodore "Ted" Brown, the founding director of the Beckman Institute'Beckman Institute...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (449+ words) What are the limits to understanding? When do natural phenomena and technological advances move away from wonder and into new knowledge and innovation? Researchers at Beckman spend their time doing exactly that. Scientists, engineers and researchers of all kinds work…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (632+ words) Lydia Marteney recently joined the Beckman Business Office as a post-award specialist. Describe your career path up until this point. After Hartwick, I worked as a tax and accounting specialist at Farm Credit East in Geneva, New York, in the…...

1+ mon, 16+ hour ago  (115+ words) Professor Haohan Wang recently joined the Beckman Institute. "Beckman's culture of deep interdisciplinarity and methodological rigor aligns closely with how I think about AI for science," he said "I am particularly excited to engage with researchers who treat AI not…...

1+ mon, 12+ hour ago  (169+ words) Huibregtse is a new affiliated faculty member at Beckman'Beckman Institute Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Professor Megan Huibregtse recently joined the Beckman Institute. She plans to collaborate with Professor Brad Sutton and Aaron Anderson, the assistant director of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (490+ words) Bugscope is an easily accessible educational outreach program that has remotely connected thousands of students with microscopists at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology for more than 25 years. Encouraging K-12 students to collect and send insect samples to the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (352+ words) Maternal mental health disorders impact 20% of mothers in the United States during or after pregnancy, but most are not screened for these conditions and even fewer receive professional help. Closing this gap requires tight collaboration between researchers, policymakers, families and…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1070+ words) It's writing our emails and creating our musical playlists. And with the right researchers leading the way, it will change the way we understand the brain. The converse is true, too: Understanding the brain will only make AIs more efficient,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (180+ words) What do you like about working at the Beckman Institute? The Beckman Institute is a very mysterious place, full of secrets. It's been thrilling to discover these secrets the longer I work here. On a more personal level, I've had…...