Graduate Students Personal Time Off (PTO) and Sick Leave Policy | Department of Chemistry | Illinois

Group Expectations Documents for Chemistry Labs | Department of Chemistry | Illinois

• For short-term mental health concerns or emergencies, please reach out to the Counseling Center (217-333-3704).
  • Same-day appointments
  • Limited to several sessions
  • More permanent solutions like group therapy exist here
• For longer-term mental health concerns, please reach out to McKinley Health Center (217-333-2700). Here is the center's mental health services webpage.
  • Dual medicine-therapy approach (therapists and psychiatrists freely communicate when they share a patient to best serve those needs)
  • Limited to 15 therapy sessions but they can make exceptions
  • Unlimited psychiatry
  • Can do same day appointments, but it is preferred you call and schedule appointment (Please be advised that it could take a month to get in)
  • Will do baseline assessment and refer directly to Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES), if needed
• Long-term mental health concerns will be referred to DRES by McKinley, if needed.
  • McKinley staff will make and email application to DRES
  • DRES will reach out to make appointment
  • Meet with specialist to help students with their personal needs
  • Accommodation letters are given to student
  • Free and unlimited therapy from Ph.D. level therapists

This flow chart was developed by an active member of the chemistry community, Dr. Elizabeth Neumann (Sweedler Group).

Chemistry Confidential Reporting page — How to notify the Department of Chemistry of a Bias Incident, Discrimination, and/or Toxic Work Environment.

Two documentary films tell the individual stories of Illinois chemistry alumni, St. Elmo Brady, who became the first African American in the United States to obtain a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Illinois in 1916, and Dr. Carlos Montezuma, who was the first Native American alumnus of the University of Illinois when he graduated with a chemistry degree in 1884.