Synergy is a quarterly publication of the External Relations office of the Beckman Institute. Each issue spotlights the people and science that make the Institute one of the premier facilities for interdisciplinary research in the world.
The value of giving back is something ingrained in
Robert Fossum. So it's not surprising that he and his wife established the Robert and Robin Fossum Distinguished Lecture Series at the Beckman Institute, or that they have been content to let others choose the visiting lecturers for it. But this year's lecture was different.
Ming Hsu's area of study is neuroeconomics, which is a combination of neuroscience and economics and a subset of behavioral economics. Hsu, who has a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Caltech, is currently a Beckman Fellow and he will be joining the faculty of the Department of Economics at Illinois in the fall as an assistant professor.
Before the Beckman Institute acquired a state-of-the-art immersive virtual reality environment known as the Cube, the most high tech
Ranxiao Frances Wang got in her psychology research was to use a video camera. These days, Wang is treating the Cube like a test pilot does an experimental aircraft.
Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI) pioneers
and researchers from
across the country gathered
in March at the Beckman
Institute to honor the late
Nobel Laureate Paul C.
Lauterbur.
In February, Carle Foundation Hospital and the Beckman
Institute for Advanced Science and Technology announced
an exciting new Fellows program that will provide a young
scientist with the opportunity to spend several years conducting
cancer-related translational research.