News-Gazette (Oct. 8) -- Cecilia Leal, a Portugal-born materials science and engineering professor at Illinois, was one of 48 winners of the 2016 National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award, which recognizes "bold ideas from some of the nation's most promising early-career scientists." Also: WAND-TV (Oct. 4), ASEE FirstBell (Oct. 11).