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    This false colored transmission electron microscopy image of gold nanorods by graduate student Nathan Forney in the Murphy Lab was one of the finalists in the 2022 SCS Science Image Challenge. 

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    Illinois scientists win $9.5 million to study emerging pathogens

    Chemistry professors Wilfred van der Donk and Angad Mehta are part of team investigating how to better prevent avian viruses from spreading among animals and humans.

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    UIUC to co-lead new Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in Chicago

    The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been chosen to lead the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago – a new biomedical hub – along with the University of Chicago and Northwestern University.
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    DOE Renews CABBI funding for UIUC Bioenergy Research Center

    Chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler is part of the CABBI team led by chemistry affiliate faculty member Huimin Zhao that is developing a versatile, automated “biofoundry” for rapidly engineering microbial strains that can efficiently produce diverse, high-value molecules such as biodiesel, organic acids, jet fuels, lubricants, and alcohols.
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    The American Chemical Society's Physical Division selects Illinois chemistry faculty member Josh Vura-Weis for the Richard Van Duyne Early Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry.
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    The Cancer Center at Illinois recently talked with Professor Jonathan Sweedler, James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry, who is a research member with the Cancer Center at Illinois’ JumpStart Program. He ...
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    Chemistry professor Mei Shen is among 126 early-career researchers receiving the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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    Professor Olshansky will participate in the Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia of the NAS, which bring together scientists who are 45 or younger to engage in exceptional research in a variety of disciplines.
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    John Christian Bailar, Jr. was born in Golden, Colorado in 1904 and received his degrees in chemistry from Colorado and Michigan. He became an instructor at the University of Illinois in 1928 and began a sixty-three year career in Illinois - Department of Chemistry. He became associate professor in 1930 and full professor in 1943. Although interested in organic isomerism as a graduate student, it was while teaching a general chemistry course that he realized that isomerism, the occurrence of different compounds with the same chemical composition, is a general phenomenon that could also exist...
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