Beckman Director Jeff Moore has been awarded the Campus Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award, which recognizes outstanding academic leadership and vision by an executive officer within a college or campus unit.
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Professor Jefferson Chan and graduate student Melissa Lucero developed the finely-tuned molecular agent that can seek out elusive lung cancer cells for imaging and treatment — an approach that could be used to target other cancers.
Early detection of sepsis is a critical need in the healthcare industry, and the Illinois research team that includes chemistry professor Hee-Sun Han has received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a rapid and accurate point-of-care device for early detection of the life-threatening medical condition.
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- Organized by the Department of Chemistry's ACS Women Chemist Committee, this year's annual event will be virtual and feature a poster session, two seminar speakers and a reception for networking opportunities with all seven researchers.
- A native of Fresno, Californa, Catherine Jalomo is pursuing her dream to become a chemist and a mentor as a first-generation college student and the first among her siblings to pursue a graduate degree.
- A research chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and President of the American Chemical Society, Cheng (PhD, '74) continues to "see future possibilities" in his research developing green chemistry methodologies related to agro-based materials and using them to produce eco-friendly and...
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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...
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- Analytical Chemistry
- Chemical Biology
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry
