There are over 150 faculty members engaged in research at the Beckman Institute and numerous postdoctoral students, graduate students and administrative staff members. In total the Beckman Institute is host to more than 600 researchers from over 30 different departments.
Research Spotlights
Pop Paper in Physical Review Letters
Beckman Institute faculty member Eric Pop has a paper in the current online edition of Physical Review Letters (Vol. 101, No. 25) titled Avalanche-Induced Current Enhancement in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes. Pop, a member of the Computational Electronics group, and collaborators Albert Liao and Yang Zhao report on results that demonstrate the importance of multiband transport in one-dimensional wires.
Beckman Researchers Report Cognitive Skill Transfer Effects
A new study by the Beckman Institute’s Art Kramer and Beckman Fellow Chandramallika Basak reports that, for the first time, a training program produced cognitive skill effects that could be transferred to skills not related to the experiment. Using an interactive video game, the researchers found that multi-dimensional training can affect several individual components of cognitive function.
Braatz Named AAAS Fellow
Richard Braatz of the Beckman Institute and a professor in the Illinois Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).