Office of Technology Management, Urbana-Champaign

If you walk by the OTM intern office and see an intern wiping away tears at his desk this fall, I can assure you it’s not because he failed an exam or got yelled at by his boss (the interns cry at home when those things happen, not at work.) Crying in the office only means one thing: somebody just consumed a super-hot pepper.

Yep, the OTM Intern Pepper Club is under way and the taste testing has begun.

Hi, my name is Jill Forkal and with the start of a new school year comes new interns. So, I am the new Junior Communication Intern for the Office of Technology Management.

Years ago, making a video and uploading it to the web would have taken an entire team, a lot of money, and a vast knowledge of filmmaking. Today, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world upload videos every single day which can be seen by anyone with an internet connection.

Since sites like YouTube have made it so easy for the public to upload videos to the web, we here at OTM thought our marketing team should take advantage.

By Rebekah Iliff, Co-founder & CEO, talkTECH Communications

@ttcrebekah @talktechcomm | Rebekah@talktechcomm.com

Rebekah is an organizational management, development, and communications professional who has served clients across multiple industries and across the globe for over eight years.

Not a single OTM staff member brought lunch to work this past Wednesday, and not a single one went out to lunch. No, our staff isn’t on some crazy diet, we all just saved our appetite for the twelve dishes that were made by the OTM interns for the annual OTM Intern cook-off!

On May 20, 2011, entrepreneurs from across Illinois gathered to launch “Startup Illinois,” a branch of the Startup America Partnership.

University of Illinois signs new agreement with Memsic Inc.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Memsic Inc. have entered into a licensing agreement enabling Memsic to produce the next generation of wireless sensors for the monitoring of civil infrastructure. The sensors are based on technology developed by Professors Bill Spencer and Gul Agha.

The new wireless sensor platform will have multiple capabilities allowing sensing of vibration, temperature, humidity, and light and be optimized for energy efficiency, reliability, and environmental hardness.

When taking CT scans of a person, it’s crucial that he or she remain as still as possible – so as not to render a blurry image. It’s a relatively easy thing for people to do, since normal CT scans only take around 15 seconds to complete.

However, asking a small dog or cat to remain still during those 15 seconds… not so easy.