and processes. The MSE research portfolio includes molecular engineering, self-healing materials, and computational biophysics (such as NAMD). Notable faculty Tenure-track or tenured faculty members of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are eligible to become members of the Beckman Institute. Prominent members of the Beckman Institute have included: Narendra Ahuja, computer vision Tamer Başar, interim Director Rashid Bashir, bionanotechnology J. Kathryn Bock, psycholinguistics Stephen A. Boppart, biophotonics Martin D. Burke, chemistry Kathryn B. H. Clancy, anthropology Neal J. Cohen, memory systems and neuroscience Jennifer S. Cole, linguistics Brian T. Cunningham, biosensor engineering Minh Do, signal and image processing Gregory S. Girolami, chemistry William T. Greenough, neuroscience Martin Gruebele, chemistry Karl Hess, semiconductor physics Thomas Huang, image formation and processing Douglas L. Jones, image and signal processing Arthur F. Kramer, cognitive aging and neuroscience Paul Lauterbur, magnetic resonance imaging Jean-Pierre Leburton, nanotechnology Stephen E. Levinson, robotics Jennifer A. Lewis, directed assembly of soft functional materials Zaida Luthey-Schulten, molecular dynamics simulation Nadya Mason, physics Jeffrey S. Moore, materials chemistry Catherine J. Murphy, chemistry Gabriel_Popescu_(scientist), quantitative phase imaging Richard Powers, novelist John A. Rogers, soft electronics Justin Rhodes, neurobiology Klaus Schulten, computational biophysics Daniel Simons, psychology Nancy Sottos, self-healing materials Jonathan V. Sweedler, analytical chemistry Scott R. White, self-healing materials Beckman Fellowships The Beckman Institute offers a variety of fellowship programs, which enable researchers to work for short periods of time at the Institute. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded to Beckman scholars who receive 3-year appointments, including both a stipend and a research budget. The first Beckman postdoctoral scholars were Efrat Shimshoni (condensed matter physics) and Andrew Nobel (information theory and statistics). Beckman Graduate Fellowships are awarded to students who are working at the master's or doctorate level. Beckman Senior Fellowships are awarded to senior faculty from other institutions. Beckman Fellowships administered through the Beckman Institute should not be confused with those administered through the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) at the University of Urbana-Champaign. The CAS awards a series of Beckman Fellowships and Beckman Research Awards which support faculty at Urbana-Champaign in their research activities. These awards were funded through an endowment from Arnold and Mabel Beckman, given in the late 1970s, prior to the establishment of the Beckman Institute. They are administered separately and are awarded throughout the university, not just within the sciences. Research services The Beckman Institute hosts two major core research facilities. The Biomedical Imaging Center (BIC) includes the