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Read article: Sagnik Chakrabarti wins 2025 T.S. Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic PhD
Sagnik Chakrabarti wins 2025 T.S. Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic PhD
Graduate student Sagnik Chakrabarti was selected as the recipient of the 2025 Theron Standish Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic Ph.D. Thesis in the Department of Chemistry.In a special presentation to the department on May 13, 2025, Chakrabarti presented his thesis, "Low-valent Nickel and...
Read article: Two graduate students receive 2025 Walter Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry PhD
Two graduate students receive 2025 Walter Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry PhD
Two PhD graduates, Gavin Lindsay and Rachel Nixon, were awarded the 2025 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis in the Department of Chemistry.In back-to-back presentations to the department on May 15, 2025, Nixon presented her thesis, “Toward the sustainable...
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Read article: General Chemistry innovation proposal wins grant funding
General Chemistry innovation proposal wins grant funding
A proposal for providing general chemistry students with resources and instruction to help improve their math fluency has been awarded funding through the Provost’s Initiative on Teaching Advancement (PITA).The proposal was submitted by Elise McCarren, director of the Chemistry Merit Program, and...
Read article: Investiture celebrates two chemistry faculty members
Investiture celebrates two chemistry faculty members
In chemistry, the right combination of essential elements can lead to scientific discoveries that impact the world.Drawing a comparison, Rosa Milagros Santos, associate provost of faculty development at Illinois, described as “essential elements” the generosity of individuals who support faculty...
Read article: Chemistry graduate student selected for DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Chemistry graduate student selected for DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
 A first-year graduate student, Eliza Asani truly enjoys chemistry, but you won’t find her in the lab. As a computational chemist, she spends most of her time in front of a computer.That would have surprised Asani several years ago when she was a freshman at the University of Alabama in...

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Ludwig Frederick Audrieth (1907 - 1967)

Spotlight: Audrieth, Ludwig Frederick (1907-1967)

Lou Audrieth was born in Vienna, Austria, and became an American citizen in 1912. He was educated at Colgate and Cornell, taking a PhD from the latter in 1926 and remaining there as a fellow for two years. He worked with A. W. Browne during both his doctoral and post-doctoral studies. It was during this time that his interest in the study of nitrogen chemistry and non-aqueous solvent reactions began. He joined the Illinois faculty in 1928. He began studying the chemistry of nitrogen-phosphorus compounds and of sulfamic acid, sulfamide, and their derivatives, leading in 1939 to the discovery,...