Spring 2008

Resonance is ECE ILLINOIS’ semi-annual magazine. You can download the full digital (PDF) edition or follow the headline links below to read select stories.

Spring 2008

• A chorusing crowd: frogs help researchers study hearing
• Researchers set new record for brightness of quantum dots
• New flat-panel display fabrication technique
• Cancer-detecting ultrasound under development
• Blue Waters finds a home at Illinois
• Cangellaris invested as Van Valkenburg Professor
• Four new faculty members join ECE
• Faculty News
• News Briefs
• Researchers awarded grant to study effects of blast exposure
• ECE students take up residence on the National Mall
• Jonathan Hill: Supporting our students
• ECE scholarship to benefit ncoming freshmen
• Donor Profile: Mike Kaskowitz
• Donor Honor Roll
• Alumni board president’s letter
• New alumni board members named
• Distinguished alumni class includes educators, industry leaders

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• Alumni Leaders: Jordan Plofsky and John Day
• Alumni Class Notes

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• Remembering Bardeen and superconductivity theory
• The sound of music: Beauchamp slices, dices, puts it together again
• Campus Roundup
• Holonyak honored with campus marker