Every student in the Department of Chemistry is invited to dream big, work hard, and exceed expectations through life-changing opportunities. Students receive a top-ranked and affordable education thanks to our scholarships, graduate fellowships, undergraduate research opportunities, and travel support.

Our students create novel coating processes to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, transform iterative cross-coupling with MIDA boronates into an automated platform for complex natural products synthesis, study fabricated solid-state lithium electrolyte nanocomposites derived from porous molecular cages, and so much more. Supporting the student experience ensures that Illinois continues to welcome the brightest students and produce world-class chemists.