Oct. 11, 2024 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Marni Boppart’s trajectory to named professorship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign began as a kid playing in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Boppart, a professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology in the College of Applied Health Sciences, was named the Saul J. Morse and Anne […]
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Boppart research to boost astronaut fitness on NASA’s mission to Mars
Dec. 15, 2022 | Jenna Kurtzweil Harnessing the power of cells could be key to preserving astronauts’ fitness in low-gravity conditions. Exercise looks a little different en route to the Red Planet, so Professor Marni Boppart got creative. Boppart and her colleagues at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology received $1 million from […]
Boppart awarded Beckman’s Vision and Spirit Award
May 7, 2020 | AHS Staff Marni Boppart, an associate professor of kinesiology and community health, is the 2020 winner of the Beckman Institute Vision and Spirit Award. Boppart is also a faculty member in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and at the Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. You can read more […]