The year 1980 was a turning point for LAS alum Peixin He (PhD ’85, chemistry).
By 1980, China had been opening up to the world, and Peixin He was coming to the University of Illinois as a visiting scholar through an exchange program between Fudan University and Illinois.
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A few months ago, a new term cropped up on Twitter to describe an all-too-common phenomenon at academic institutions: a dude wall. In science departments, these walls honor historical figures by portraying retired faculty, previous heads of an institution, or even just preeminent scientists in a field.
Elizabeth Murphy, undergraduate in the Braun Research Group, is one of three winners in the research image contest at the Beckman Institute. The goal of the contest was to submit images that showed the intersection between art and science. The contest was broken down into three areas: undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers.
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- The Illinois Alumni Association will present their 2019 awards at a private gala during Homecoming Week, October 13-19, 2019. Among those recognized are an Illinois Chemistry alumnus and emeritus faculty member.
- Professor Josh Vura-Weis was recently selected as the winner of the 2019 Inter-American Photochemical Society (I-APS) Young Investigator Award, sponsored by the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, which is published by Elsevier.
- Iris Stovall, double Illinois alumna and longtime Department of Chemistry academic staff member, passed away on September 19, 2019.
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C. S. Marvel was born in Waynesville, Illinois on September 2, 1894. Marvel was first introduced to chemistry while a freshman at Illinois Wesleyan on the recommendation that "the next generation of farmers was going to need scientific knowledge to get the most out of their work". After receiving his BS degree, he entered graduate school in 1915 at the University of Illinois.
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