Department of Chemistry News

Andrzej Wieckowski has been selected as a Fellow of the ISE for his continuing outstanding scientific and technical achievement within the field of electrochemistry.

The ASA Student Council presents this award every 18 months to recognize individuals who have served as exemplary mentors.

Chad Rienstra has been selected for the ICMRBS Founders Medal for his innovative work in the area of solid-state NMR methodology and applications to determine protein structures

John Hartwig will deliver a lecture for the Joseph Chatt Award given by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Burke is among 50 scientists chosen by the HHMI from a national competition of more than 2,000 applicants for this award.

Scott Denmark was awarded the Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods from the ACS.

Martin Burke has been selected to received the prestigious 2009 Amgen Young Investigators Award from Amgen, Inc.

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has recently informed Dr. Alexander Scheeline, a faculty member in the Illinois Department of Chemistry, that he has been selected to receive a 2009 Special Grant in the Chemical Sciences.

Wilfred van der Donk was selected as the RSC 2009 Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Lecture Award winner in recognition of his contribution to the field of bioorganic chemistry, particularly related to lantibiotics and molecular processes associated with resistance to antibiotics and bacterial infections.

Dr. Ben McCall has won the prestigious 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Dr. Martin Burke has won a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

Dr. Ben McCall has won the Coblentz Award, given annually in the Molecular Spectroscopy Symposium at Ohio State.

Dr. John Hartwig of Chemistry has just won the 2009 Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award for his work in the "Development of New Practical Catalytic Reactions Including Efficient C-H Bond Activation and Coupling Reactions".

Rogers, Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was recognized for his contributions to the science and engineering of unusual materials, patterning techniques and metrology methods for electronic and photonic systems.

Eric Oldfield, professor of chemistry, was selected for his contributions to biological magnetic resonance, including chemical shift analysis and development of anti-malarial drugs.

John Rogers is one of six scientists selected as a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF) for 2009. NSSEFF will provide him with $3 million over five years to conduct basic research that the DoD finds technologically important.

Huimin Zhao was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2009.

Martin Gruebele, the James R. Eiszner Endowed Professor of Chemistry has been awarded the 2008 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences.

John Katzenellenbogen, the Swanlund Professor of Chemistry, has received the Leading Edge in Basic Science Award from the Society for Toxicology (SOT).

Steve Granick, Founder Professor of Engineering, and professor of materials science and engineering, of chemistry, of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and of physics, was awarded the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society.

Scott Denmark has received the Robert Robinson Lectureship

John Hartwig has received the Royal Society of Chemistry Joseph Chatt Lectureship.

John Katzenellenbogen has received the RSC Centenary Lectureship.

Scott Silverman has won the 2009 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry given by the ACS.

Ted Brown is the recipient of the 2008 Harry and Carol Mosher Award from the Santa Clara Valley Section of the American Chemical Society.

Christina White has won the 2008 Abbott Young Investigator Award

Martin Gruebele has been elected to membership in the highly selective Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.

Wilfred van der Donk has won the 2008 SCS Teaching Excellence Award. Only three awards were granted this year throughout SCS.

Chad Rienstra has been selected by the SCS Committee on Staff to receive the 2008 SCS Teaching Award.

Huimin Zhao has been selected as a recipient of the 2008 Young Investigator Award from the Division of Biochemical Technology of the American Chemical Society.

Huimin Zhao, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and chemistry, has been selected as one of six University of Illinois professors to win the University Scholars Award.

Professor Martin Burke wins the 2008 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Professor Christina White was awarded the 2008-2009 Pfizer Award for Creativity in Organic Chemistry.

Professor Paul J. Hergenrother of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently chosen to receive the 2008 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry.

Professor John Hartwig of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently chosen to receive the 2008 Paul N. Rylander Award from the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society.

Professor Ralph Nuzzo of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently selected as a 2007 Fellow of AVS.

Professor Scott Silverman of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently selected as a 2007 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Professor Christina White's 2007 Eli Lilly Grantee Award will include an unrestricted research grant, and the opportunity to deliver a lecture at the 14th biennial Lilly Grantee Symposium.

Andrew Young, Eric Gillis, and Nathan Werner recently were selected as the 2009 Sigma-Aldrich Graduate Student Innovation Award recipients.

Anthony Mazzotti (White Group) has received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship

Richard Helmich (Suslick group) and Tim Kucharski (Boulatov group) have been accepted to the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany

Christopher Field (Scheeline Group) wins the Tomas Hirschfeld Award

Charity Flener, a student in the Girolami and Dunning groups, has just been awarded a scholarship by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for the 2008-2009 year.

Mark Chen, a fourth year graduate student in the White Group, has recently been awarded the 2008 Excellence in Chemistry Award from Roche Pharmaceuticals.

Dan Palacios, a student in the Burke Group, has been selected to receive the 2008 Robert M. Scarborough Award from the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

Tom Anderson, a student in the Burke Group, has just received the Ruth L. Kirchstein Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellowship from the NIH.

Jaclyn Murphy, a student in the Hartwig Group, has won the 2007-2008 Nelson J. Leonard ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship.