The list of faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants in the Department of Chemistry who were ranked excellent by their students has been announced from results of the Spring 2022 course evaluation processes.
Results are based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) maintained by Measurement and Evaluation in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning...
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Latest ResearchChemistry researchers conduct cutting-edge research in a variety of areas
St. Elmo Brady ScholarsChemistry at Illinois program offers summer research experience.
Noyes LaboratoryWhere Chemistry Happens
The American Chemical Society has announced the 2023 National Award winners, including chemistry professors Scott Denmark and Nancy Makri. The recipients also include Illinois chemistry alumnus Mark W. Grinstaff (PhD, '92).
Nuzzo is a 2022 Kavli Prize Laureate in Nanoscience along with David L. Allara, Jacob Sagiv and George Whitesides for their work on self-assembled monolayers, which transformed surface science and has led to applications in areas from medical diagnostics to semiconductor devices.
More Department News
- One of five students awarded a PPG Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) Graduate Research Assistantship to pursue cutting-edge research, Zhuang Xu will focus on investigating the assembly pathway of semiconducting polymers.
- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received a $10.65 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s $400 million initiative seeking institutions across the nation to lead 43 Energy Frontier Research Centers over the next four years to help meet President Biden’s goal of reaching a...
- Chemistry at Illinois faculty members are involved in five of the nine of interdisciplinary research projects to receive the 2022 CCIL grant funding.
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Nelson J. Leonard, one of the most important chemists of the twentieth century, was not only a master in the application of organic synthesis to the solution of important problems in chemistry, biochemistry, and plant physiology, but very highly regarded as a professional colleague. Leonard was born on September 1, 1916, grew up in Bronxville, New York, and attended Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, before moving to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. The beginning of World War II in September 1939 forced Leonard's return to the United States. Chemistry was not the only part...
Research Areas in Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry
- Chemical Biology
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry
