06/30/2022 - Dr. Wei Zhang received his BS in chemistry from Peking University in 2000, and his PhD in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Professor Jeffrey Moore in 2005.
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06/24/2022 - Chemistry professor Martin D. Burke and biochemistry graduate student Stella Ekaputri were part of a team that found a small molecule, hinokitiol, ferries iron out of liver cells lacking the protein...
06/15/2022 - Led by Serenity Desmond, the assistant director of Teaching Labs for Chemistry, and Physical Science Technical Assistants Michelle Colombo, Justin McGlauchlen, and Alexis Waite, a program to...
06/14/2022 - As the 2021-22 academic year comes to a close, the School of Chemical Sciences and the Department of Chemistry have recognized a group of faculty members, faculty instructors and graduate students...
06/10/2022 - In recognition of outstanding mentorship of undergraduates in research, chemistry graduate student Alex Shved has been awarded the third annual Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship.
06/10/2022 - Currently a third-year graduate student in the lab of Professor Angad Mehta, Cournoyer has continuously mentored undergraduate researchers.
06/10/2022 - Olshansky will study a new approach to converting sunlight into chemical potential energy with this support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program, which is intended to...
06/09/2022 - In a report published in Nature Communications, the team behind the campuswide collaboration, which included researchers from the Department of Chemistry, details the innovations in modeling, saliva...
06/08/2022 - The daughter of Samoan parents and the first of seven children to attend college, Tepora Su’a knows firsthand the challenges of navigating higher education as a STEM major and first-generation...
06/08/2022 - The latest class of Arnold O. Beckman fellows includes Illinois chemistry alumnus Andrew Zahrt, who graduated in August 2020 with a PhD in organic chemistry under the advisement of Professor Scott...
06/08/2022 - The in-person event honored the Illinois faculty members who were elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022 and 2021, which included the two professors of chemistry.
06/08/2022 - The annual awards are presented to individual undergraduate and graduate students for various achievements, including academic excellence and outstanding research in the chemical sciences.
06/06/2022 - Faculty member and Head of the Department of Chemistry is named winner of the Centenary Prize for pioneering work with gold nanocrystals and excellence in communication.
06/01/2022 - The Illinois Professor Emeritus of Chemistry is one of four 2022 Kavli Prize Laureates in Nanoscience being honored for contributions to the development of self-assembled monolayers on solid...
05/31/2022 - The history of the Department of Chemistry's Noyes Laboratory is rooted in fire, discovery, public service, and kindness.
