Alumni

As the head of the Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Daniel Heller (PhD, '10) has rapidly become one of the preeminent young scientists in cancer...

An Illinois chemistry alum who was advised by Prof. Nancy Makri, Sohang Kundu's dissertation, “Exciton-vibration Dynamics Using Real-Time Path Integral Methods,” was awarded the Justin...

After a 30-year career in science, culminating in upper management at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Allen Hartford (PhD, '71) has made a gift to Illinois chemistry that is providing undergraduate...

The NAE announced in February 2024 the election of 114 new members, including Hye Kyung Timken (PhD, ‘87), and 21 international members, including Taeghwan Hyeon (PhD, '96).

Eight alumni of the College of LAS will be recognized during the college’s 2024 alumni awards celebration in April, and the honorees include chemistry alums Dan Heller (PhD, ’10) and Tom Remec (BS, ’...

Dr. Chilton (MS, '60; PhD, '67) was presented the award by U.S. President Joe Biden in a ceremony at the White House on Oct. 24, 2023, for her work producing the first transgenic plant and for...

A recent Phd graduate in Chemistry at Illinois, Lucero acknowledges hard work and the support of people who genuinely care about her growth as a scientist and as a person as the keys to her success.

The Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair was established by Christine Walker in honor and memory of her late husband, Dr. Jerry A. Walker, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa with high honors and highest...

The pair are recipients of the 2024 Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, which recognizes outstanding graduate students and their preceptors in the field of chemistry.

Retired from Procter & Gamble, Sandra Murawski gives back to Chemistry at Illinois to support the excellence in teaching and mentoring she experienced in her education and career.

Rudolph A. (Rudy) Marcus was a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1964 to 1978 and received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1992 for contributions to the...

The Chemistry at Illinois graduate, who is the Chief Inclusion Officer at Dow, delivered the keynote address during the Department of Chemistry's May 2023 Convocation Ceremony on the University of...

Known for pioneering molecular research and efforts to test for COVID-19, chemistry Professor Martin Burke was honored as the May and Ving Lee Professor for Chemical Innovation during an Investiture...

With more than 45 years of experience in the chemical industry, including research for Dow Chemical R&D, earning seven U.S. patents, and as a business leader for Dow Plastics, Dr. Marinda Li Wu...

The vice president for research at Northwestern University, who developed new mass spectrometry technology, wanted to provide students at Illinois with the same undergraduate opportunities that...

As the inaugural editor of Device, a new applied physical science journal from Cell Press, Marshall Brennan will lead the publication in its quest to be the breakthrough journal to support...

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the most promising innovators in science and technology, has announced the 2023 Hertz Fellows, 15 remarkable...

Gifts from University of Illinois emeritus professors Jiri Jonas and Ana Jonas provide critical support for science and medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including in the...

The Department of Chemistry hosted a networking reception on March 26, 2023, in conjunction with the ACS National Meeting in downtown Indianapolis. The event was open to all...

A graduate in the Class of 2021, Kocheril joins a group of 42 finalists from across the United States who will participate in a final round of interviews for one of the most competitive and coveted...

With support from the local ACS chapter and the Department of Chemistry, WCC was officially founded in October 2005, and today, the graduate student organization continues to fulfill its mission to...

Dr. Lance E. Rodewald is a senior advisor to the National Immunization Program of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The National Academy of Sciences award recognizes Timken's groundbreaking work at Chevron on innovative catalysts, which has been instrumental in making oil refineries safer, and fossil fuels more...

A PhD candidate at Brown University, Kocheril graduated from Illinois in the Class of 2016 and recently returned to his alma mater to present his doctoral research as the recipient of the Brown...

The Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering are awarded to innovative early-career scientists and engineers pursuing new areas of research. Tang is an alum of Professor Wilfred van der Donk's...

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...

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...

The American Chemical Society has announced the 2023 National Award winners, including chemistry professors Scott Denmark and Nancy Makri. The recipients also include Illinois chemistry alumnus Mark...

Dr. Wei Zhang received his BS in chemistry from Peking University in 2000, and his PhD in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Professor Jeffrey Moore in 2005.

The Radding award was established in 1994 by the Silicon Valley Section of the ACS to recognize demonstrated, dedicated, unselfish leadership, service and significant contributions, over a sustained...

A Harvard Law professor and highly regarded environmental lawyer and author, Richard Lazarus says he learned the value of rigor, education and discipline as a dual major in chemistry and economics at...

The latest class of Arnold O. Beckman fellows includes Illinois chemistry alumnus Andrew Zahrt, who graduated in August 2020 with a PhD in organic chemistry under the advisement of Professor Scott...

A recent Investiture ceremony celebrated his selection as the John and Margaret Witt Professor of Chemistry, an endowed fund that will allow his research group to continue its work in the discovery...

As the CEO of LanzaTech, a carbon capture company that recently announced plans to go public, Holmgren is guiding the company in its goal to transform waste carbon into a variety of materials,...

A new paper published in 2021 in the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, a publication of the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, includes new information about St. Elmo Brady, the first...

A chemistry major who graduated in the Class of 1995, King-McNeil was promoted last year to Senior Director of Research & Development for Olay Franchise & Packaging Innovation at Procter and...

Abdul-Aziz (PhD, '17) has been awarded a $538,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to develop a novel approach to convert greenhouse gases into chemicals that can be used as...

Peter K. Dorhout holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former...

A research team led by Chemistry at Illinois alum Rommie Amaro, who is a University of California San Diego professor, has modeled for the first time the delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus inside...

A research chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and President of the American Chemical Society, Cheng (PhD, '74) continues to "see future possibilities" in his research developing green...

Markita Landry, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, will be recognized with the 2020 and 2021 alumni award...

The Vilcek Foundation selected Markita del Carpio Landry (PhD, '12) to receive the Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, which is one of several foundation prizes celebrating foreign-born...

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...

The collaborative effort that included UIUC chemistry alum Leigh-Anne Ihnken has been awarded an RSC Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award for the development of new biocatalysts for...

Alum Hugo Ong works in the San Francisco area as a healthcare VP Analyst and Associate Portfolio Manager at Allianz Global Investors, a long-only investment firm, with a focus on biotechnology and...

The annual Illini Success survey again shows that most students graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering secure...

Alum Alveda Williams (PhD, ’02, Gupta) explains in a recent Q&A in Nature Chemistry how she moved from Research and Development at Dow into another "area of strength and passion,” becoming the...

Two long, distinguished academic careers in chemistry have come to an end in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University Maryland with the retirements of professor...

As a CCST fellow, Grant Hisao serves decision makers within California's state legislature and executive branch, evaluating complex scientific issues and interpreting data related to the...

More than 30 years ago, Anna Bertelloni was a postdoctoral researcher working on natural products from marine organisms in the lab of UIUC chemistry Prof. Kenneth L. Rinehart. That work led to...

An assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California-Berkeley, Markita Landry (PhD, ’12) was a double-major in chemistry and physics...

As a senior manufacturing engineer at Abbott, Illinois chemistry alumnus Nicholas Ndiege (PhD, ’08, Shannon, Masel) is responsible for manufacturing engineering activities related to production of...

Most recently dean of the College of Engineering and a full professor in both the Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering at Wichita State University, Dennis Livesay (PhD, '...

Cheng (PhD, ’74, Gutowsky), a research chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, was elected in October as the 2020 American Chemical Society president-elect by...

Recent graduate student who completed his PhD in 2019 finishes first along with a 10-person team from the Max Planck Institute in Mulheim, Germany, in an international 96-hour race to identify the...

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.

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...

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...

The American Chemical Society selected Lydia E. M. Hines (PhD, '71) as the recipient of the 2020 Helen M. Free Award for Public Outreach. The award is presented annually by the ACS Committee on...

A team leader at Chevron Company, Hye Kyung Timken (PhD, '87, Oldfield) is one of 10 alumni award winners from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences honored during LAS Impact 2020, a weeklong...

Greg George (BS, ‘82) and the late Benjamin Mosier (PhD, ’57, Laitinen) worked together for years on the innovative technology that has been recognized in the Process and Prototyping category by the...

An alumna from the Department of Chemistry is one of 10 alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences to be named recipients of the college’s 2020 annual alumni awards.

He will take over as editor of the flagship publication of the American Chemical Society in 2021 and become the first JACS editor-in-chief to live outside of the U.S. and the first Latin American to...

An instructional faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, Christian Ray was promoted to teaching associate professor of chemistry.

The Department of Chemistry hosted a public virtual event on May 29, 2020, featuring faculty members Martin Burke and Yi Lu, who each gave presentations about their COVID-19 projects.

Chemistry at Illinois hosted a virtual meeting on July 30, 2020, allowing new head Cathy Murphy and previous head Martin Gruebele to have a conversation with alumni, friends and faculty about the...

Four Department of Chemistry graduating seniors in the Class of 2020 received convocation awards in May. Each award includes a $1,000 gift to the graduating student.  Andria Pace...

The Department of Chemistry has lost a friend and supporter with the passing of Carolyn “Connie” Springborn who shared the same generous spirit as her husband, alumnus Robert Springborn (BS, '51)....

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...

Kaibo Feng and Mikiko Okumura are both in the group of 45 finalists from all over the world for the 2020 Reaxys PhD Prize.

As the head of Technical Development Asia Pacific for BASF in Singapore, alumna Sindhu Easwara Menon leads the technical service and application development teams for plastics applications.

Professor Catherine J. Murphy becomes the first woman to receive the American Chemical Society’s National Award in Inorganic Chemistry.

The Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, McGuire is joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s...

A documentary about Illinois chemistry alumnus St. Elmo Brady, the first African American to earn a PhD in chemistry in the United States, has garnered a Telly Award.

A senior researcher with appointments in biomedical engineering, chemistry and cell and developmental biology at Northwestern University, Alumnus Milan Mrksich was serving as interim when he was...

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...

Awards Committee in the Department of Chemistry recommends the appointment of Professor Douglas Mitchell, who is doing world-class work on lasso peptides and other medicinally important chemistry...

A nationally known, award-winning scientist and alumnus of the Department of Chemistry at Illinois, Milan Mrksich (BS, '88) is now Northwestern University's interim vice president for research.

With a research team of exclusively undergraduate students, Illinois chemistry alumnus Jay Wackerly, (PhD, ’08, Moore), an associate professor of chemistry at Central College in Iowa, has created and...

The Vice President of Research, Development and Engineering at Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company, recently visited the Department of Chemistry for the Alumni in Industry lecture and discussed how his...

As an undergraduate in chemistry at the University of Illinois, Dr. Jeanne Hankett (BS, ’10, chemistry) found her drive for analytical chemistry working in the lab of Professor Andy Gewirth, doing...

Atul K. Verma (PhD, ’96, Rauchfuss) was recognized at the Fall 2019 ACS National Meeting in San Diego with the ACS Heroes of Chemistry Award. 

Alumnus H. N. Cheng (PhD, ’74, Gutowsky) has been elected the 2020 American Chemical Society (ACS) President-Elect. Cheng obtained his BS from UCLA, followed by a PhD at the University of Illinois...

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...

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...

Alumnus H. N. Cheng (Ph.D., ’74, Gutowsky) is a candidate for the 2020 American Chemical Society President-Elect. Dr. Cheng obtained his B.S. from UCLA, followed by a Ph.D. at the University of...

Illinois Chemistry alumnus St. Elmo Brady (Ph.D., ’16) was the first African American to obtain a PhD in chemistry in the United States. More than fifty years after his death in 1966, Brady will...

Peixin He (PhD, '85, Faulkner) and his wife, Xiaoming Chen, made a donation to endow the Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry. Peixin He studied and worked with Faulkner and authored seven...

We regret to pass along the sad news that alumnus Dr. William Gumprecht (BS, ’53) passed away on May 3, 2019 in Wilmington, Delaware.

Illinois alumna Christine Herman (PhD, '12, chemistry; MS, ’14, journalism) was recently recognized with two first-place awards from the Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association. Her story...

Professor Catherine J. Murphy, Larry Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry, and Chancellor Robert Jones have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Illini Success initiative, a campus-wide effort to gather career-related information about recently graduated bachelor’s degree recipients, studies alumni within six months of graduation.

William Nebergall (MS, '39) is one of 2019 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees. He achieved this award with his development of stannous fluoride toothpaste (US Patent No. 2,876,166).

We are saddened to share the news that alumnus Alan Branfman (PhD, ’73, Rinehart) passed away on February 5, 2019.

We are saddened to share that Dr. James R. Beck (PhD, ’61, Rinehart), alumnus and longtime supporter of the University of Illinois, passed away on January 16, 2019. Dr. Beck was born in Paris,...

Chemistry alumnus traces his success to influential professor at Illinois. This fall, Martin Pomper gathered with others from across the world to be officially inducted the National Academy of...

Peter D. Senter (PhD, ’81, Coates) was one of six...

Oxford University Press has published a print copy of the ACS Symposium Series 1231: The Power and Promise of Early Research, edited by Desmond H. Murray, Sherine O. Obare, and Illinois...

Professor Cathy Murphy and alumna Sara Skrabalak (PhD, '07, Suslick) are featured on the ACS website celebrating women in nanotechnology.

What does it take to have a positive impact on the human experience? It requires bold ideas and the freedom to pursue innovative solutions.

Dr. Qing Cao (Phd, '09, Rogers) joins the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as part of the UI’s distinguished faculty hiring program.

Professor James Spudich (BS, '63), Stanford University School of Medicine, was chosen to receive the University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award for 2018. The selection is done by fellow alumni...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Biochemists at the University of Illinois have isolated a protein supercomplex from a bacterial membrane that, like a battery, generates a voltage across the bacterial membrane. The...

Name: Elliot Brazil. Year: Graduated with a BS in 2015. Hometown: Olney, IL is my hometown in this country, but I grew up largely in Asia as a child. Why Illinois? It’s a beautiful campus with great...

Ronald D. Archer did his undergraduate education in Physical Science and Mathematics Education and his MS in Chemistry Education, both at Illinois State University.

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.

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;...

Name: William H. (Bill) Pittman. Year/Degree: 1960 PhD. Hometown: Columbia, MO (childhood); Schenectady, NY (now). Why Illinois? Recommendation from my senior research adviser at the Univ. of MO, Dr...

Chemistry alumnus Ralph Gardner-Chavis (BS, '43) was one of 15 African Americans who worked on the Manhattan Project. They were featured...

Stephen Elledge (BS, '78) received a 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Elledge was honored at a...

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...

Illinois chemistry alumnus Dale C. Blomstrom (PhD, '53) passed away on August 3, 2017, in Wilmington, Delaware.

Dr. Jinwoo Cheon is a Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement Recipient. ...

Michael Sofia (PhD, '84 chemistry, Katzenellenbogen) has received a 2017 College of LAS Alumni Achievement Award for discovering the cure to Hepatitis C. He will be honored this weekend during the...

Alumnus Karol Sokolowski received a Chemistry High Achievement scholarship from an anonymous donor that allowed him to finish his undergraduate education in chemistry. The annual scholarship is among...

Revered Peter Arvedson died July 14, 2011, at the age of 74. Beloved husband of Joan. Loving father of Stephen (Tara) and Mark. Cherished grandfather of Matthew, Jonathan and Jason. Dear brother of...

DEL MAR, Calif. – Lenore Hey Matheson, 93, of Del Mar, formerly of Dixon, died Sunday, June 26, 2011, at her home. She had been a resident of Del Mar since 1961. She taught high school in Georgia;...

Joseph John Ursprung, PhD, 87, passed away Friday, June 3, 2011, at Crown Pointe Senior Living Community in Stevensville, MI. Joseph was born March 19, 1924, in Goedre, Baranya, Hungary, the son of...

Ed Dunlop passed away April 26th at age 95. Eleanor Dunlop, his wife, died May 29th at age 90. They had both resided at Cokesbury Village in Hockessin, DE. Ed was born in Center, MO and graduated...

Dr. CLYDE E. ARNTZEN Dr. Clyde E. Arntzen, 95, of Juno Beach died Thursday, July 7, 2011 at the Waterford. Dr. Arntzen was born in Crescent City, IL. He lived in Jupiter from 1979-2003, moving into...

Dr. C. Gordon McCarty, 75, of Dataw Island, SC passed away peacefully at his home on June 20, 2011. Gordon was born on November 26, 1935, in Hutchinson, KS, a son of the late Gerald W. and Dorothy M...

When Margaret Kosal isn’t throwing herself out of airplanes, she’s throwing herself into her job with an equal amount of passion.

The LAS Alumni Achievement Award is given to the alumnus or alumna who, by outstanding achievement, has demonstrated the values derived from a liberal arts and sciences education.

Richard L. "Doc" Kieft, 64, of Monmouth, Ill., died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, at Great River Hospice in West Burlington.

Dr. James W. Miles - SAVANNAH - James W. Miles was born in Henderson, Kentucky on September 19, 1918, son of James W. Miles and Isabel Teresa Miles. After graduating from Madisonville High School he...

In 1984, researchers first isolated the HIV virus, the culprit behind the AIDS epidemic that was spreading panic across the United States.

Some 40 years ago, Steve Miller was a chemistry doctoral student at the U of I studying DNA. He knew next to nothing about petroleum, and so it was with some dampened optimism one day that he...

Richard Lampo (M.S. Chemistry, ’79), St. Joseph, Ill., was named Researcher of the Year at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. He was commended for advancing the state of practice for...

Elaine Fuchs (B.S. 1972) has received the Madison Medal from Princeton University. Named for James Madison, Princeton's first graduate alumnus, the Madison Medal was established in 1973 by the...

Nine Department of Chemistry Alumni were named 2010 ACS Fellows.

The late Allene Rosalind Jeanes (PhD, ’38) will be inducted posthumously into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May for, in part, creating a blood plasma extender used by medics in the Korean...

Congratulations to Freddy Nguyen, a 2015 Illinois Chemistry PhD graduate, who was chosen for a prestigious Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows Award. Nguyen is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT...

Alumnus, Mary-Dell Chilton, a genetic scientist, is a recipient of this year's University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award. She is founding director and vice president of Syngenta, a global...

A chemist and Illinois alumnus whose work was critical to U.S. operations in World War II has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The late William Sparks (PhD, chemistry, ’36)...

Illinois chemistry alumna Sara Skrabalak has won the 2015 Baekeland Award given by the New Jersey section of the American Chemical Society. The Leo...

Jennifer Heemstra (PhD Moore, 2005) and Aaron Palmer Esser-Kahn (Postdoc, Moore, 2009-2011) were selected to receive prestigious 2015 Cottrell Scholar Awards.

Alumnus, Peter Senter is a recipient of this year's LAS Alumni Achievement Award for his breakthough research in the use of antibodies to target cancer cells without destroying nearby healthy cells.

Theodore M. Vial, Sr., founding member and past president of Princeton Community Housing, died at home Wednesday, September 17, 2014. He was 93. Ted’s family is celebrating his life of service and...

William Channing ("Bill") Smith, a Ph.D. chemist, wine distributorship owner, loving family member and part of the "Greatest Generation," died peacefully on April 29, 2014, in Wilmington, NC, with...

Hirata group alumnus Dr. Olaseni Sode (PhD, 2012) has been named one of a highly selective group of recipients of the prestigious Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of...

Robert R. Chambers passed away peacefully at home in Studio City, CA surrounded by his family on April 7, 2014. In his 90 years, Bob combined a sunny Western-plains optimism with a boundless...

Alumnus and longtime friend of the Department of Chemistry Prof. Sheldon Shore passed away unexpectedly on April 4, 2014.

Illinois chemistry alumna Sara Skrabalak received the 2014 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry at the March ACS meeting. Her research involves the creation of...

Alumnus and 2011 Convocation Keynote Speaker Dr. Stephen Elledge (BS '78) was named a 2013 LAS Alumni Achievement Award winner. He was honored for his research into the DNA repair process and other...

E. Richard "Dick" Nightingale, Jr., passed away Nov. 30, 2013, in Overlook Medical Center, Summit, N.J. at age 87. Richard was born on Oct. 14, 1926, in Champaign, IL. As a youth, he was an Eagle...

Donald C. Dittmer, professor emeritus of chemistry, Syracuse University, died Tuesday (Nov. 26, 2013) in his home.He was born Oct. 17, 1927, in Quincy, a son of O.L. and Helen Moore Dittmer. Dr....

Dr. Wallace Hutchinson McCurdy, Jr., a 54 year resident of Newark, DE, passed away peacefully Wednesday morning, November 20, 2013. He recently celebrated his 87th birthday. He was born in...

Howard Lee Walker of Jackson, WY passed away Sunday November 17, 2013 in St. George, UT at the age of 87 surrounded by his family. He leaves behind a legacy of personal and professional...

Ralph J. Leary, 84, of Toms River, N.J., passed away Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, at home. Born in Elizabeth, N.J., Mr. Leary lived in Cranford for 60 years. An organic chemist, he was the director of...

Lillian Hruda Peterson passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, age 90, in Ridgefield, CT. She is survived by five children, Barbara Hruda of Newark, DE, Lawrence Peterson of Las Vegas, NV,...

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) recently announced the first 25 selections for their 100 Years of LAS Gallery of Excellence.

Dr. Harold L. Jackson, age 90, of Hockessin, DE passed away on September 24, 2013. Dr. Jackson was born in 1923 in Wichita, KS. He worked for the E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company for 46 years...

Carlos Fraga, a chemical and biological sciences researcher at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , has been named a 2013 HENAAC Luminary by the Great Minds in STEMTM...

Frederick Daniels Thayer III, 74, passed away in comfort and peace on Tuesday, September 24, 2013 after a brief and rapid battle with cancer. Frederick (Fred) was born April 23, 1939 in Stamford,...

  Donald K. Bailey, M.D. passed quietly at home on September 18, 2013 at the age of 93. He was born May 26, 1920 in central Ohio. He was placed in an orphanage and adopted by Ruth and Eugene...

Lloyd E. Cunningham, 100, passed away at 5:23 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, in Friendship Manor in Nashville. Lloyd was born Jan. 17, 1913, in Jacksonville, a son to James Edward and Elizabeth...

Mr. Leon H. Meyer, 87, formerly of Augusta, GA, died in St. Louis, MO on Thursday morning, August 15, 2013. Mr. Meyer worked at the Savannah River Plant from 1952-1984.

Dr. Wenbin Lin (PhD 1994, Girolami and Nuzzo) recently transfered to the University of Chicago, where he is now James Franck Professor of Chemistry. He previously served as Kenan Distinguished...

Neal Orin Brace, age 91, died Saturday, July 27, 2013 in his home in Carol Stream, IL. Dr. Brace was born on April 12, 1922 in Osceola, WI to Cleo W. and Alice L. (Krienke) Brace. In high school he...

Marian E. Banks, 84 years, of Park Ridge, IL, and Sturgeon Bay, WI, passed away Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at her home in Door County. She was a strong, independent, intelligent woman who touched...

Two University of Illinois alumni have been awarded the 2013 World Food Prize, the foremost international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by...

Dr. Leon Cunningham Jr., Professor emeritus of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine died June 8, 2013. Dr. Cunningham was born in Columbus, Georgia on June 9, 1927 to Anne Thomas Bussey...

Barry Pava, a resident of Palm Coast, Florida, passed away June 6, 2013. He was born December 15,1943 to Joseph and Rose Pava. He is survived by his long-time companion Jessica Meyer; daughters Jorie...

Gary Vernon Kaiser, 70, passed away on April 23, 2013. He was born in Peoria, IL on June 10, 1942, to Vernon and Anna Kaiser. Gary went on to receive his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at the...

Robert Harvey Varland, of Newtown Square, PA, died peacefully on April 21, 2013 at age 96. He was born in Artesian, South Dakota, to Harvey and Josephine Varland. His family moved to Grand Forks,...

John Edward Schultz, retired professor emeritus of Chemistry of Westminster College, passed away on April 20, 2013 at Boone Hospital Center after a long battle with leukemia. Born March 5, 1936 in...

Sidney Edward Schnitz, M.D. died on April 15, 2013. Sidney was born December 2, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son and only child of Benjamin and Winnie Schnitz. Sid attended elementary and...

Dr. Elmer John Rauckman, Ph.D., 67, of Freeburg, Ill., born Dec. 19, 1945, in East St. Louis, Ill., died Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at his residence. Dr. Rauckman received a Bachelor of Science Degree...

Joseph Forman Bunn III, 91, passed away peacefully on April 3, 2013. A dedicated father, grandfather, and husband, Joe lived a full life. He was born August 17, 1921, to Joseph Forman Bunn Jr., and...

Dr. Jacob Alif Seaton died Wednesday, March 27, 2013. He was born in Wellington, Kan., on Jan. 2, 1931, to Martin Kenner and Golda Mae (Thompson) Seaton. His parents, sisters Isabel Johnston and Lois...

Robert Blanchard Fischer passed away March 20, 2013. He was born October 24, 1920, to Charles Albert Fischer and Matilda Nylen Fischer in Hartford, Connecticut. Following the death of his father in...

Marvin F. Reich (Ph.D. 1978) passed away March 16, 2013 after a long struggle with Parkinson's Disease. He was born December 1947 in New York, NY, and graduated with a B.S. in chemistry from Brooklyn...

Randall, Dr. William J. 74 Aug. 13, 1938 - March 14, 2013 Dr. William J. Randall, Lewis and Clark College Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, died in his home Thursday, March 14. Bill was a graduate of...

Walter B. Trapp, Ph.D., 89, died Thursday, March 7, 2013, in Asheville, NC He was born in Peoria, IL, July 22, 1923, the son of Clarence H. and Julia Erler Trapp. He attended St. Bernard's Elementary...

Raymond P. Ratay, 77, of Miamisburg, OH, passed away Wednesday, March 6, 2013, at Cleveland Clinic. He was born Sept. 8, 1935, in East St. Louis, IL, to the late Andrew and Josephine, nee Leszkowicz...

Dr. Jack Leland Riudavets Williams Ph.D. of Namao, Alberta died February 27th at the age of 89 years at the Youville Home in St Albert, Alberta. Dr. Williams was born in Edmonton on October 25, 1923...

Sheldon Davidson, 85 years young, passed away on February 25, 2013. "Shelly" was born in Chicago, Illinois to immigrant parents Anna Swerdlove Davidson and William Jack Davidson. Dr. Davidson...

Professor Mark Grinstaff, who has a joint appointment between the Boston University departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, was named a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Charter Fellow...

Wilbur J. Shenk, Jr., beloved husband of the late Jean, died in Naples, FL on Dec. 27, 2012. Born Erie, PA, 1918, graduate of University School, Exeter Academy, Princeton University, and University...

James Spudich (B.S., 1963)-- currently the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Disease at the Stanford University School of Medicine-- has been chosen to receive the 2012 Albert...

Qing Cao, a Research Staff Member at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, was identified as a “rising star transforming science and health.” He is working to use carbon nanotubes to create a new kind...

James "Jim" Fritz, 88, of Ames, passed away at his home under hospice care on Monday, December 10, 2012.   After having obtained his Ph.D. in 1948 by the University of Illinois, Professor James...

Richard Lowell Threet, age 88, longtime Anacortes, WA resident, formerly of San Diego, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, of natural causes. Mr. Threet was born November 17, 1924...

Charles Brockway Roberts, 94, of Midland, died peacefully on Saturday morning, Dec. 1, 2012, at his home at Bickford Cottage of Midland. Dr. Roberts was born in Kansas City, MO, on July 31, 1918, the...

Professor Dr. Yuzhuo Li, Potsdam, NY, age 54, passed away after a sudden illness on November 14th 2012 in Mannheim, Germany, with his wife by his side. Arrangements are made with Garner Funeral Home...

Clifford Wayne Childers was born September 26, 1924 in Carterville, Illinois, to Lula and Paul Childers and passed away on October 27, 2012 at the age of eighty-eight. Upon graduating from high...

William Donald Foglesong Jr. died at home with his wife at his side on October 23, 2012 at the age of 70.   Bill was born and raised in Mason WV where he graduated from Wahama High School....

Wimer, David 86, of Winthrop Harbor, passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 13, 2012 at his home surrounded by his family. He was born July 20, 1926 in Champaign, Illinois to David Cleveland and...

Robert William Green Died on October 12, 2012, a week before his 80th birthday, after years of declining health and a hospitalization for pneumonia. Bob was born on October 20, 1932 in Los Angeles,...

Walter Smith, Jr., known as "Tom," was born in 1922 in Havana, IL, where he enjoyed fishing and boating on the Illinois River. He attended the University of Illinois and received a Ph.D. in chemistry...

John D. McCollum, 83, a retired Amoco Oil chemist, died in Naperville, IL in September.  John was born in Evanston, IL in 1929.  He graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor...

Elodie Emelda Diodene Fleming Born January 20, 1927 in Gretna, Louisiana and passed away on September 26, 2012 She was the Devoted wife of the late Calvin A. Fleming, II, and Beloved mother of her...

Dr. Alfred Raymond Gould, long-time resident and icon of West Feliciana Parish, died in his sleep on Saturday, September 08, 2012, in Sugar Land, Texas, of Alzheimer's disease. He was 84. Doc, as he...

Myrle C. White passed away Sunday, August 26, 2012, at Indiana University Health hospital. She was born April 11, 1920, in Superior, WI, to the late E. Gilmore and Bertha E. (Swensen) Wagner.

Robert E. Allen Dec. 27, 1919 - Aug. 7, 2012 Resident of Walnut Creek Robert E. Allen, husband of Betty M. Allen, died at 92 years of age. Bob was born and grew up in Hampton Iowa. A graduate of...

The Department of Chemistry is saddened to announce the passing of alumnus and longtime supporter of the department, Dr. Herschel D. Porter who passed away Tuesday, July 31, 2012. He was born in...

Donald Vidican M.D., 60, of Rockford passed away Tuesday, July 10, 2012, at his home, surrounded by his loving family, after a long battle with cancer.

Roger Lee Benson, 72, of Woodstock, passed away at home Wednesday, July 4, 2012, after an extended illness. Roger was born Dec. 30, 1939, in his grandmother's home in Huntley. He was the oldest of...

Scientist and long-time sailor, Donald Anderson, passed away on April 13, 2012, aboard his boat, Summer Passage.

Cal Meyers, Southern Illinois University’s only Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and one of the country’s great organic chemists, passed away peacefully in Carbondale on Friday, March 16, 2012.

James Douglas McCullough Jr. of Houston, Texas passed away February 28, 2012 in a Houston hospital.

Lester John Dankert passed away on Feb. 27, 2012. Lester was born in Saginaw, on March 30, 1914.

Dr. Harry Jacob Neumiller Jr., 82, of Galesburg, Ill., died Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, at Cottage Hospital.

John C. Robinson Jr. "Robby", age 94, of Wilmington, DE, passed away on Wednesday February 15, 2012 at Methodist Country House.

Katherine Louise Junnila Sholtz ("Katie"), 80, of Golden Valley, Minnesota departed this world on February 3, 2012.

Donald Gabriel Miller, a California native, lifelong civic activist and highly respected scientist, died on February 3, 2012 in Livermore California at the age of 84 of cancer.

Eleanor Clayton Cogan Sept. 22, 1909 - Dec. 27, 2011 Born in Chicago, IL to Thomas and Nora Clayton, Eleanor grew up in Dixon, in northern Illinois.

Jeffrey Spencer (MS Teaching, 2011) has been chosen as a Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Fellow this year. The fellowship provides funds for professional development and classroom resources as...

Dr. Marinda P. Wu (Ph.D. '76, Drago)has been chosen to be President of the The American Chemical Society. The founder and president of Science is Fun! in Orinda, Calif., Dr. Wu will serve ACS...

Richard Lampo (M.S. Chemistry, ’79), St. Joseph, Ill., recently won the R&D 100 Award, which each year selects the top 100 innovations worldwide. He was part of a team that...

Edward O. Stejskal died Friday, December 2, 2011, 48 days shy of his 80th birthday.

Marvin Hart Mahan, 91, of St. Petersburg, died peacefully Oct. 30, 2011.

Edward Martin Schulze died peacefully on October 29, 2011 in Conroe, Texas, at the age of 91 years.

George Coraor, Ph.D., 87, of Whitehall, PA, formerly of Allentown, PA, and Wilmington, DE, died Monday, October 24, 2011, at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township, PA.

Ernest D. Nicolaides (Ph.D. 52', Leonard) passed away October 21, 2011 at his home in Longmont, Colo. He was 87 years old.

Paden Fasold Dismore, age 89 years, of Seaford, Delaware, died on September 29, 2011, at his home. Mr. Dismore was a chemist who retired from DuPont after 30 years of service at the Seaford Nylon...

Harold Rosenberg, age 87 of Dayton, passed away Thursday April 14, 2011.

Maurice "Maury" L. Ward was 93 years old when he died November 27, 2010, at home while living with his daughter in California.

When Pat Jeffries goes to the movies, he can drive people crazy, whispering comments about the film as it plays out on the big screen. However, he's usually not commenting on the plot or the...