3/3/2016 Susan Mumm, Media Specialist
Visiting in January, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin tours the Center of Excellence in Self-healing, Regeneration, and Structural Remodeling
Written by Susan Mumm, Media Specialist
Student researchers in the lab of Scott White and Nancy Sottos brief Sen. Durbin on their individual projects in self-healing materials.
Sen. Durbin visited the lab of AE professor Scott White and MatSe professor Nancy Sottos at Beckman to learn about their work in self-healing materials.
Durbin also toured the lab of AE affiliate Nancy Sottos, professor of materials science and engineering, and spoke with student researchers about the scientists’ work in self-healing materials. In November, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) had awarded $4.3 million to create at Illinois the national Center of Excellence in Self-healing, Regeneration, and Structural Remodeling. White directs the center.
Durbin visited Beckman to speak about the critical importance of federal biomedical research funding for the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.