05/31/2022 - Leonel Griego, a graduate student in the research group of Liviu Mirica, received the 2022 T.S. Piper Award, and Kenneth Madsen, a graduate student in the research group of Andrew Gewirth, received...
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05/23/2022 - The college issued a call for LAS Student Success Initiative proposals earlier this year and received a number of applications. Two projects in the Department of Chemistry will receive funding.
05/19/2022 - Alpha Omega Epsilon chose to recognize Professor Hee-Sun for her willingness to "go above and beyond" to ensure that her students are understanding the concepts she teaches in her chemistry class.
05/16/2022 - In a study led by chemistry professor Jefferson Chan, researchers at the Beckman Institute deployed a molecular probe to demonstrate a direct link between a high-fat diet and heightened nitric oxide...
05/13/2022 - A first year graduate student at UIUC, Xu recently tested her ability to explain research in the Shen lab in front of a live audience on campus. A member of professor Mei Shen's lab, Xu has a diverse...
05/11/2022 - Two chemistry graduate students in the C² program — Joenisse Rosado-Rosa and Catherine Jalomo — were recognized for outstanding mentorship of undergraduate students in the chemical sciences. Chemical...
05/09/2022 - The annual Willis H. Flygare Memorial Lecture in Physcial Chemistry featured Naomi Halas, a Rice University professor who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plasmonics.
05/06/2022 - The 18 researchers selected for the teacher-scholar awards are all within the first five years of their academic careers, have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are...
05/05/2022 - Two innovative research projects of professors Jefferson Chan and Andrew Gewirth in the Department of Chemistry have been selected to receive the latest round of support from the Discovery Fund,...
05/02/2022 - Chemistry professor Angad Mehta and graduate student researchers Jason Cournoyer and Sarah Altman conducted a study that recapitulates what scientists have long theorized — that evolution of complex...
04/29/2022 - A recent Investiture ceremony celebrated his selection as the John and Margaret Witt Professor of Chemistry, an endowed fund that will allow his research group to continue its work in the discovery...
04/28/2022 - Yunyan Sun is a PhD student in professor Jeff Moore's group who will be investigating a type of force-sensitive molecule known as a mechanophore with the ultimate goal of making advancements in...
04/18/2022 - Four Illinois chemistry graduate students have been selected 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows and four more were accorded honorable mention.
04/15/2022 - A research team led by Professor M. Christina White has discovered a new chemical reaction that provides a simple, rapid way of making tertiary amines – swinging the door wide open to the...
04/13/2022 - Kinesiology and community health professor Marni Boppart and chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler and their colleagues have developed a new method for recovering skeletal muscle after periods of...
