2026-07-20 - Angad P. Mehta has been promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mehta has also been designated by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences as an I. C. Gunsalus Scholar for 2026-2027...Posted:
2026-07-20 - Rudolph A. (Rudy) Marcus, Caltech's John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, passed away on July 16, 2026. Marcus was a faculty member in Chemistry at Illinois from 1964 to 1978. He was awarded the...Posted:
2026-07-15 - Scott E. Denmark, Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry, was the recipient of the inaugural Angewandte Chemie Chair, a prestigious recognition presented during the 19th Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium, which was held...Posted:
2026-07-07 - This summer, rising senior Claire Skowron is participating in a summer program at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, where she is exploring statistical approaches to studying population health trends while connecting data-driven research with patient care and disease...Posted:
2026-07-07 - Illinois chemistry alumnus Jinwoo Cheon (Ph.D., '93), a professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, has been chosen for the 2026 Korea Top Scientist Award.The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies announced the award on July 6, 2026....Posted:
2026-07-07 - The life of Theodore “Ted” Brown, the founding director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and professor emeritus of Chemistry at Illinois, will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 11, at Copper Creek Church, 2202 W. Curtis Road, Champaign.The...Posted:
2026-07-06 - The School of Chemical Sciences (SCS) and the Department of Chemistry have recognized a group of faculty members and graduate students for their commitment to excellence in the classroom in the 2024-25 academic year.Two chemistry faculty members and four graduate students in chemistry received the...Posted:
2026-07-06 - Looking to nature for inspiration, professor Majed S. Fataftah is exploring new ways to turn carbon waste, like carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide, into chemical building blocks that can be used to make valuable materials.To...Posted:
2026-07-06 - A Chemical & Engineering News feature about new synthetic approaches that are helping chemists build and reshape molecules in entirely new ways features Martin Burke, May and Ving Lee Professor for Chemical Innovation, and Professor of Chemistry, and the blocc chemistry approach developed...Posted:- 2026-06-26 - The Department of Chemistry mourns the loss of alumnus Robert Allen Stavenger (Ph.D., '99), who passed away on June 14, 2026, from complications due to cystic fibrosis.Stavenger was a graduate...Posted:
- 2026-06-24 - Several years ago, Prof. Prashant Jain and his research team were pursuing a sustainable way to synthesize ammonia when they made an unexpected discovery that light can be used to activate the splitting of ammonia to release hydrogen, a carbon-free fuel touted as a potential clean energy...Posted:
2026-06-22 - A Nature article about ‘virtual cells’ that turn raw data into predictive models of biology features the work of several research teams, including the living cell simulation project led by Zaida Luthey-Schulten, Murchison-Mallory Endowed Chair in Chemistry....Posted:
2026-06-22 - Many essential structural materials used in applications including electronics, civil infrastructure and aerospace must be especially strong and durable, but the same chemical properties that give these materials their ideal traits make them difficult to recycle. Wind turbine blades, for...Posted:
2026-06-10 - Drawing on over 15 years of industrial research and development experience at Dow, alumna Stephanie Potisek Lee (Ph.D., ’08) gave Illinois Chemistry graduate students an inside look at how research in industry translates into the development of new products....Posted:
2026-06-09 - Xiaotang Lu, assistant professor of chemistry, is among 12 researchers selected as Beckman Young Investigators by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.The 2026 class of awardees was announced June 9, 2026, and selected...Posted: