Health
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An Infectious Duo
“This Podcast Will Kill You,” created by Erin Welsh (LAS ’18) and Erin Allmann Updyke (LAS ’18, University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine ’21), has delivered trusted, science-backed information to over a million listeners.
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Life as we know it
Few scientists have done more to reshape our understanding of life at the molecular level than Nobel Prize-winner Phillip Sharp (LAS ’69).
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Home is where the robot is
Professor Wendy Rogers and other leading Illinois faculty are using the McKechnie Family LIFE Home to define the future of independent living for all ages and abilities.
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Heart inlets
In their last act of generosity, these donors become a medical student’s first patient.
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12 days
How Grainger engineers—and medical professionals, manufacturing experts, animal scientists, and designers from around Champaign-Urbana—brought a COVID-stricken world an emergency ventilator in less than two weeks.
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Pandemics and fear
Historians and anthropologists see parallels between past outbreaks and today’s crisis.
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1918: The year without a homecoming
On the hundredth anniversary of the 1918 influenza pandemic, we look back at a campus that prepared soldiers for war, tended to the sick, and came together in a spirit of selflessness and compassion.
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Chasing the flu
One hundred years after the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic, scientists are still trying to understand the virus.
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Innovating with compassion
Ruby Mendenhall’s new position with the Carle Illinois College of Medicine draws upon her years of experience working in Chicago.