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    BTN Documentary: "The New Normal"

    A Big Ten Network documentary details the 2020 journey of researchers from various disciplines across the University of Illinois campus, including the Department of Chemistry, to create a fast and inexpensive COVID-19 test to ensure that students, faculty and staff could remain safe and healthy during the pandemic.

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    Chemistry researchers discover rules for breaking into Pseudomonas

    A team led by chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother and former graduate student Emily Geddes (PhD, '22) has discovered the physical and chemical rules for overcoming the defenses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium responsible for tens of thousands of hospital infections every year in the U.S.
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    Getting to know: Graduate student Katherine Hatzis

    A fifth-year PhD student who grew up on a farm in rural Ohio, Katherine Hatzis is involved in researching fundamental surface science of gold nanomaterials and engagement and outreach activities like the "Bonding with Chemistry" Day Camp for youth and also teaches English as a Second Language classes in Urbana.
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    New antifungal molecule kills fungi without toxicity in human cells, mice

    Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report in the journal Nature that a new antifungal molecule, devised by tweaking the structure of prominent antifungal drug Amphotericin B, has the potential to harness the drug’s power against fungal infections while doing away with its toxicity.
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  • Submit Research Images in the 2023 SCS Science Image Challenge
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  • Unprecedented Compound Takes a Step Toward Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
    An anticancer compound developed in the collaborative labs of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Paul Hergenrother, a professor of chemistry at Illinois, and David Shapiro, a professor of biochemistry, has been licensed for pre-clinical development. The biotech company Oncoteq recently...
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  • Researchers identify unexpected twist while developing new polymer-based semiconductors
    A new study led by professor Ying Diao brings fresh insight into the development of semiconductor materials that can do things their traditional silicon counterparts cannot – harness the power of chirality, a non-superimposable mirror image.
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    Bailar, Jr., John Christian (1904-1991)

    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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