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06/18/2013 Around the Pier: A Story about Science Global Change, Marine Ecosystems, and Society Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability, Water
05/04/2013 Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research presented at International Conference IGERT in Chemical Genomics (ChemGen): Forging... Computational Sci & Eng, Materials Sci & Eng
04/22/2013 Nanotechnology for Clean Energy IGERT Elementary School Outreach Nanotechnology for Clean Energy Device Development, Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
04/04/2013 The 3rd COSI@CU Industrial Advisory Board Meeting and COSI@CU... IGERT: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education in... Computational Sci & Eng, Sensing, Signals & Imaging
03/21/2013 Trainee Presents at Arctic Urbanization Conference in Greenland IGERT: C-CHANGE: Climate Change, Humans, and Nature in... Climate Change, Computational Sci & Eng, Human & Social Dimensions, Sensing, Signals & Imaging, Sustainability
03/14/2013 Non-linear modeling of active biohybrid materials IGERT: Soft Material Robotics Biological Evolution, Computational Sci & Eng, Device Development, Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Neuroscience, Sensing, Signals & Imaging
03/10/2013 An interdisciplinary approach to analyzing vulnerability in freshwater social-ecological... IGERT: WATER - Integrated Water Atmosphere and Ecosystem... Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability, Water
03/10/2013 Mechanisms of carbon storage in mountainous headwater rivers IGERT: WATER - Integrated Water Atmosphere and Ecosystem... Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability, Water
03/06/2013 Trainees Participate in Joint-US Materials Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Nanotechnology for Clean Energy Device Development, Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
03/05/2013 IGERT Fellow Kristy Jost Wins Lindau Award Nanoscale Engineering and Science: One Campus, Two-... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
03/04/2013 IGERT Trainee Returns From international Rotation IGERT: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education in... Computational Sci & Eng, Sensing, Signals & Imaging
02/19/2013 NSF grant will establish dedicated nanoBIO node to Network... IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
02/12/2013 Dawn Bonnell Elected to National Academy of Engineering IGERT Fellowships in Nanoscale Science & Engineering: The... Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
02/12/2013 COSI@CU Newsletter and YouTube Channel IGERT: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education in... Computational Sci & Eng, Sensing, Signals & Imaging
01/31/2013 Chem Expo 2012 IGERT in Chemical Genomics (ChemGen): Forging... Computational Sci & Eng, Materials Sci & Eng
01/04/2013 Carnegie Mellon IGERT Trainee Wins at 2012 Society of... IGERT: Educating and the Interface: Nanomaterial... Human & Social Dimensions, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
12/19/2012 IGERT video re-imagines women in science, receives media coverage IGERT: Polar Environmental Change Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability
12/14/2012 Drexel IGERT wins big at Materials Research Society meeting IGERT Fellowships in Nanoscale Science & Engineering: The... Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
12/13/2012 New bioenergy and sustainable technology online graduate certificate From Crops to Commuting: Integrating the Social,... Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Sustainability
12/04/2012 Investigating Crevasses at Raven Camp, Greenland IGERT: Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change (A2C2) Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability, Water
11/06/2012 UIC Phishing Study IGERT: Electronic Security and Privacy: Technological,... Computational Sci & Eng, Human & Social Dimensions
10/28/2012 Southern Illinois IGERT Students Blog About Watershed Science and... Multidisciplinary, Team-Based Training in Watershed... Computational Sci & Eng, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability, Water
10/12/2012 California butterflies on your phone Biological Invasions: From Genes to Ecosystems, From..., IGERT: Climate Change, Water, and Society (CCWAS), IGERT: REsponding to RApid Environmental CHange (REACH):... Biological Evolution, Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability, Water
10/09/2012 Restoring the California Delta Biological Invasions: From Genes to Ecosystems, From..., IGERT: Climate Change, Water, and Society (CCWAS), IGERT: REsponding to RApid Environmental CHange (REACH):... Biological Evolution, Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability, Water
10/01/2012 Multiple Goals in Floodplain Restoration: A Historical and Ecological... IGERT: REsponding to RApid Environmental CHange (REACH):... Biological Evolution, Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability
10/01/2012 Newly demonstrated capabilities of low-powered nanotweezers may benefit cellular-level... IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
09/27/2012 Michael Sheetz Shares the Prestigious Albert Lasker Basic Medical... IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
09/22/2012 University of Puerto Rico's IGERT Members Field Trip to... IGERT: Natural-Human Systems in the Urbanizing Tropics Bioinformatics, Biological Evolution, Civil Infrastructure, Climate Change, Energy, Human & Social Dimensions, Neuroscience, Sustainability, Water
09/21/2012 Traveling Light with an Optics Suitcase IGERT: Distributed Renewable Energy: From Science and... Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability
09/21/2012 The face of nanotechnology at Illinois, CNST promotes interdisciplinary... IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
09/17/2012 CGI Trainee Rita Blaik to hold photography exhibition Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
09/17/2012 Big Data Social Science IGERT Names First Cohort of... IGERT: Big Data Social Science - An Integrative Education... Computational Sci & Eng, Human & Social Dimensions
09/17/2012 Employees at 'green' companies are significantly more productive, study... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
09/17/2012 CA energy expert weighs in on India power outage Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
09/17/2012 UCLA researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
09/17/2012 Razmig Kandilian awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
09/11/2012 NSF Interdisciplinary Program Takes on Critical National Research Priorities NSF Program Officers
09/09/2012 Amino acids - the path of Lake Champlain Atlantic... IGERT: Polar Environmental Change Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability
09/03/2012 Congratulations to Rashid Bashir, a 2012 EMBS Award Recipient IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
09/03/2012 Study: Metabolism in the brain fluctuates with circadian rhythm IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
09/03/2012 Training the Next Generation Workforce: Biosensing-Bioactuation-Bionanotechnology Summer Institute 2012... IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
08/15/2012 Gifford Wong on the Health of the Greenland Ice... IGERT: Polar Environmental Change Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability
08/15/2012 Simone Whitecloud on Plant Interactions IGERT: Polar Environmental Change Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability
07/29/2012 IGERT Trainee Named Technology Fellow, UCLA Office of Intellectual... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
07/24/2012 IGERT Students Experience "Big Science" in Greenland IGERT: Polar Environmental Change Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability
06/28/2012 ScienceFilm Workshop IGERT: Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and... Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability
06/20/2012 CGI presents the EnGen Roadshow Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/11/2012 Watts Green? Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/10/2012 Asking An Expert About Biofuels: A Discussion with UCLA... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/05/2012 Lights go out on the Hill during energy competition Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/05/2012 Teaching teachers to make sense of sensors Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/05/2012 More than 1,000 drop by to explore universe with... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/05/2012 UCLA Chemist receives American Chemical Society Award Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/05/2012 Researchers develop graphene supercapacitor holding promise for portable electronics Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/05/2012 Scientists use silver nanowires to make LCD screen electrodes Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/05/2012 Sustainable Business Council & UCLA Host Smart Grid Panel Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/04/2012 How Big a Solar System? How Big a Battery... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/04/2012 India needs to partner with early innovators across the... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/04/2012 Fossil Free: Microbe Helps Convert Solar Power to Liquid... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/04/2012 White House honors UCLA Professor James Liao as a... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
05/01/2012 NOAA Ship Nancy Foster visits Old San Juan IGERT: Natural-Human Systems in the Urbanizing Tropics Bioinformatics, Biological Evolution, Civil Infrastructure, Climate Change, Energy, Human & Social Dimensions, Neuroscience, Sustainability, Water
04/30/2012 Video Profiles: Ben Kopec on the Effects of Sea... IGERT: Polar Environmental Change Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability
04/30/2012 Video Profiles: Lee Corbett on Past Climate Events IGERT: Polar Environmental Change Climate Change, Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability
04/06/2012 UPenn IGERT accepts NRC Post-Doctoral Associateship at NIST IGERT Fellowships in Nanoscale Science & Engineering: The... Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
04/05/2012 Bottling sunlight Doctoral student's novel solar reactor may enable... IGERT: Sustainable Energy from Solar Hydrogen Energy, Sustainability
03/15/2012 Professor Bruce Dunn elected as Fellow of the Materials... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
03/15/2012 Penn State team makes electricity while cleaning wastewater Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
03/15/2012 Smarter Power Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
03/15/2012 UCLA Scientists Invent Cheap, Bendy Solar Panels That Could... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
03/15/2012 A Leap Forward for Plastic Solar Cells Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
02/27/2012 IGERT Poster and Video Competition 2012 Video: Presenting Your... IGERT Resource Center Project
02/20/2012 Giving life to the problem - students spend semester... IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
02/16/2012 UIUC team designs a bandage that spurs, guides blood... IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
02/02/2012 IGERT Trainees Participate in The Game Changers for "The... Solving Urbanization Challenges by Design: A New PhD... Civil Infrastructure, Climate Change, Sustainability, Water
01/12/2012 IGERT Retreat at the University of Puerto Rico IGERT: Natural-Human Systems in the Urbanizing Tropics Bioinformatics, Biological Evolution, Civil Infrastructure, Climate Change, Energy, Human & Social Dimensions, Neuroscience, Sustainability, Water
01/10/2012 American Cancer Society Honors Illinois IGERT-CMMB Professor IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
01/10/2012 IGERT-CTS Fellow James Biagioni wins best poster award IGERT: Graduate Program in Computational Transportation... Computational Sci & Eng, Human & Social Dimensions
01/06/2012 The View from my Handlebars IGERT in Chemical Genomics (ChemGen): Forging... Computational Sci & Eng, Materials Sci & Eng
01/03/2012 UCLA engineers demonstrate use of proteins as raw material... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 UCLA researchers engineer E. coli to produce record-setting amounts... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 Biofuels technology is latest example of UCLA spurring economic... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 UCLA advance with new nanomaterials good news for next-generation... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 UCLA team develops highly efficient method for creating flexible,... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 Building the smart grid of the future: UCLA teams... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 Researchers use tiny gold particles to boost organic solar... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 Southwest blackouts: How do power outages spread? Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 Solar-Charged Phones Without A 93-Million-Mile Cord Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 Researchers use wireless technology to speed transition to electric... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 CJ Kim selected as one of 100 people who... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 Rajit Gadh elected a Fellow of ASME Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 Professor Yang Yang named to UCLA's Tannas Endowed Chair... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
01/03/2012 James C. Liao named to Ralph M. Parsons Foundation... Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
12/22/2011 Fate of Naphthalene in Laboratory-Scale Bioretention Cells: Implications for... IGERT: Non- Equilibrium Dynamics Across Space and Time: A... Human & Social Dimensions, Sensing, Signals & Imaging, Sustainability
12/22/2011 TESTIMONY TO THE NEW YORK STATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON... Multiscale Phenomena in Soft Materials Device Development, Materials Sci & Eng
12/22/2011 Ancient fish uses thin limbs to walk and lift... Integrative Training in Motor Control and Movement Bioinformatics, Biological Evolution, Computational Sci & Eng, Neuroscience, Sensing, Signals & Imaging, Sustainability
12/22/2011 Student Experience in Austria Resilience and Adaptive Governance in Stressed Watersheds Human & Social Dimensions, Sustainability, Water
12/21/2011 Clean Green IGERT Newsletter Volume 3 Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA Energy, Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience, Sustainability, Water
12/16/2011 Solid state nanopore technology points to the future of... IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
12/16/2011 Insana and Cunningham chosen as IEEE Fellows IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
12/16/2011 Bashir and Hsia Elected Fellows of AAAS IGERT: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in... Materials Sci & Eng, Nanoscience
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