Three winners of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists – in life sciences, chemistry, and physical sciences and engineering – will be announced on July 20, each receiving $250,000 as a Blavatnik National Awards Laureate.
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The collaborative effort that included UIUC chemistry alum Leigh-Anne Ihnken has been awarded an RSC Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award for the development of new biocatalysts for asymmetric reductive amination, from fundamental understanding of mechanism and structure to applications on an industrial scale
The Royal Society of Chemistry has awarded Kenneth Suslick with the Theophilus Redwood Award for contributions to artificial olfaction as an analytical technique and for the invention and development of the 'optoelectronic nose,' a simple yet highly effective technology for detecting toxic gases, identifying complex odorants, and rapidly diagnosing disease based on smell.
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- The St. Elmo Brady Scholars Program provides summer research opportunities at Illinois for undergraduates from Tougaloo, Howard, Fisk, and Tuskegee universities, whose chemistry programs were founded by St. Elmo Brady, a 1916 Illinois graduate who was the first African American to receive a PhD in...
- A Meyerhoff Scholar, member of Honors College and undergraduate researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, incoming UIUC chemistry graduate student Autumn Cook was also dedicated to being an advocate for all students, getting involved in UMBC efforts to support survivors of sexual...
- A research team, led by Huimin Zhao, a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a professor of chemistry, has developed a new coronavirus test that can get accurate results from a saliva sample in less than 30 minutes using a hand-held device.
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University of Illinois colleagues remember Bill Flygare as "one of the most creative and dynamic physical chemists in the world." Shortly before his death in 1981, Professor Flygare was awarded the Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics and was cited for: "outstanding contributions to the understanding of molecular electronic structure and molecular dynamics through the introduction of high resolution microwave techniques and other innovations; for his many contributions in other fields including light scattering in and structure of liquids; for setting an example of combined theoretical...
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