04/16/2020 - Every year, as we prepare for the annual Image of Research exhibition, we are simply amazed at the diversity and beauty of graduate student research on our campus. This year, we are excited to share...
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04/16/2020 - After Elizabeth Murphy graduates from the Department of Chemistry next month, her next stop will be on the West Coast where she will pursue a PhD in polymeric materials chemistry at the University of...
04/10/2020 - Professor Michael Koerner has worn many hats in his professional and personal life. Early in his career, he worked in private industry as a pharmaceutical process chemist at G.D. Searle & Company...
04/09/2020 - Sriyankari Chitti was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for her potential to contribute to the advancement of research in the natural sciences, mathematics or engineering.
04/07/2020 - A nationally known, award-winning scientist and alumnus of the Department of Chemistry at Illinois, Milan Mrksich (BS, '88) is now Northwestern University's interim vice president for research.
04/03/2020 - Growing up in North Miami, Safiyah Muhammad was always at the beach and naturally drawn to marine life, which led her to consider marine biology as an undergraduate at Nova Southeastern University.
04/03/2020 - A world traveler, photographer and musician, Nick Pino’s dream is to live in the big city, but it was the human connections that drew him to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to earn his...
04/03/2020 - The dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has announced that Professor Cathy Murphy has accepted the offer to serve as the next head of the Department of Chemistry.
04/01/2020 - With a research team of exclusively undergraduate students, Illinois chemistry alumnus Jay Wackerly, (PhD, ’08, Moore), an associate professor of chemistry at Central College in Iowa, has created and...
03/26/2020 - Researchers have developed the first computational model of a human cell and simulated its behavior for 15 minutes – the longest time achieved for a biological system of this complexity.
03/24/2020 - A breakthrough by an Illinois Chemistry team of researchers could enable medicinal chemists to more easily harness “magic methylation,” a transformation that can significantly boost the potency of...
03/24/2020 - A doctoral student in the Department of Chemistry, Dinumol Devasia, has been awarded a TechnipFMC Fellowship for 2020-21 for her research focusing on the spectroscopic investigation of carbon dioxide...
03/20/2020 - Saadia Chaudhry, one of five recently announced 2020 postdoctoral fellows at The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, will be collaborating with Joaquín Rodríguez-Lopéz, an...
03/20/2020 - Professor Martin Gruebele and Research Professor Stephen G. Sligar are winners of the 2020 Protein Society Awards.
03/13/2020 - A new study from the Schroeder and Moore groups at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides an unprecedented look at how monomer sequence affects charge transport in precisely defined...
