A proof-of-concept study conducted by chemistry professor Liviu Mirica and colleagues offers new evidence that copper isotopes can be used to detect the amyloid-beta protein deposits that form in the brains of people living with – or at risk of developing – Alzheimer’s disease.
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Chemistry professors Rohit Bhargava, Paul Braun and Prashant Jain, along with two other University of Illinois professors, are among the 489 scientists to be awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow this year.
On Nov. 9, the Publications Division of ACS announced Sara E. Skrabalak (PhD, '06, Suslick), an Indiana University chemistry professor, as editor-in-chief of both Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters.
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- Marshall Brennan (PhD, '15, Fout) comes to the Chicago-based SLAS from the American Chemical Society (ACS) where he served as the senior product manager of New Product Innovation.
- After graduation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, senior Omar Alshangiti will continue his academic career at the University of Oxford in England following his selection as a Rhodes Scholar.
- As alumnus Phillip Sharp (PhD, '69) renews support for the University of Illinois, the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of RNA splicing recalls a key moment in his education as a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry.
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Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Bill Pirkle grew up on a farm, and built model airplanes to fly them competitively even into later years after he had started his career in science. Bill received his B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1958, and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (Marshall Gates) in 1963. After a postdoctoral year with E. J. Corey at Harvard, he joined the faculty at Illinois in 1964.
Research Areas in Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry
- Chemical Biology
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry
