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Rebecca Ulrich receives ACS Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship

The American Chemical Society has awarded Rebecca Ulrich of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the 15th Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2024–2026. Ulrich will conduct her fellowship studies with Deborah Hung of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA, starting in September...

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New tool could facilitate discovery of new mechanically responsive materials

A research team led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign chemists has developed an easy-to-use intuitive tool that could help in the design of new mechanophores with a range of practical applications in materials science and organic synthesis due to their ability to change physically or...

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New antibiotic kills pathogenic bacteria, spares healthy gut microbes

By Diana Yates, Illinois News Bureau Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse gut. The drug, called lolamicin, also warded off...

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Illinois chemistry team wins computational science hackathon

A team from the Department of Chemistry took first place among 12 teams in a cross-campus computational science competition at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Three graduate students, Jason Wu, Shruti Iyer, and Seonghwan Kim, and postdoctoral researcher Zheng Yu won the...

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By listening, scientists learn how a protein folds

By Diana Yates, Illinois News Bureau By converting their data into sounds, scientists discovered how hydrogen bonds contribute to the lightning-fast gyrations that transform a string of amino acids into a functional, folded protein. Their report, in the Proceedings of the National...

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Spotlight: Palmer, Arthur William (1861-1904)

Arthur W. Palmer was born in London, England in 1861. He obtained a BS in chemistry at the University of Illinois in 1883 and an ScD in chemistry from Harvard in 1886. He then spent a year in Germany, studying first with Victor Meyer and then with August Hofmann. While in Berlin with Hofmann he began his work on arsines, which culminated three years later, after his return to the University of Illinois, in the establishment if the existence of that series which to date had been described as not existing. Dr. Palmer was called back to Illinois in 1889 and returned there in September of that...