10/25/2022 - A gift from Dr. T.M. (Terry) Balthazor (PhD, '75) ensures the future of the Balthazor-Senter Symposium on Frontiers in Organic Chemistry will continue and a separate gift ensures that early career...
Giving News
10/06/2022 - Professor Nick Jackson leads the initiative that includes a summer research experience for undergraduate students and a new class for undergraduate and graduate students to learn how to "do" machine...
05/09/2022 - The annual Willis H. Flygare Memorial Lecture in Physcial Chemistry featured Naomi Halas, a Rice University professor who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plasmonics.
05/05/2022 - Two innovative research projects of professors Jefferson Chan and Andrew Gewirth in the Department of Chemistry have been selected to receive the latest round of support from the Discovery Fund,...
09/03/2021 - In honor of their PhD advisors, Dekai Loo (PhD, ’87, Beak) and Jianjian Zhang (PhD, ’89, Schuster) established scholarships as a way of passing on the support they received from their Illinois...
03/04/2021 - An internationally acclaimed organic chemist and UIUC professor for nearly 60 years, Peter Beak made fundamental contributions to organic chemistry that included unifying concepts and new areas of...
09/08/2020 - The $5,000 scholarships are awarded to undergraduates who have shown outstanding academic achievement and excelled in leadership, research and innovation as demonstrated by classroom performance,...
08/10/2020 - The long-term goal of this new program in the Department of Chemistry is to provide full fellowships for fourth-year graduate students. Alumnus Peixin He (PhD, ’85, Faulkner) and Xiaoming Chen have...
05/11/2020 - More than 60 years ago, Eunice S. Wu left her home in Taiwan for the United States to study chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, following in the footsteps of her father who...
10/16/2019 - 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...
09/12/2019 - The Discovery Fund, established in 2018 and supported by a generous gift from chemistry alumni Ving Lee (Ph.D., ‘75, Rinehart) and May Lee (Ph.D., ‘76, Rinehart), provides funding for innovative...
08/16/2018 - What does it take to have a positive impact on the human experience? It requires bold ideas and the freedom to pursue innovative solutions.
03/28/2018 - We are deeply saddened to share that alumnus and long-time Illinois Chemistry supporter Robert C. Springborn (BS, ’51) passed away on Sunday, January 21, 2018 in Naples, Florida.
03/27/2018 - This March, we recognize a few of the many individuals whose lives and work have inspired and promoted the development of women in the chemical sciences. When alumna Yulan Tong (MS, ’58;...
02/12/2018 - In 1990, students and friends of Illinois chemistry professor and alumnus Harold R. Snyder (BS, ’31) established a fund in his memory to support a summer research program for undergraduates...
05/19/2017 - Twelve students in the Lincoln Scholars Initiative graduated from the University of Illinois this academic year, making them the second class of LAS students who have earned a degree with support...