News

09/07/2021 - 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...

09/06/2021 - Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology used advanced computational methodologies to successfully simulate the capsid disassembly step...

09/03/2021 - Graduate student leaders of several organizations share why they are involved in various Chemistry at Illinois student groups and share advice for first-year graduate students as well as memories of...

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...

09/02/2021 - Every two years the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society presents the prestigious Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award to an exceptional younger chemist in commemoration of the technical and...

09/01/2021 - Professors Jefferson Chan and David Sarlah both joined the Chemistry at Illinois faculty in 2014.

08/31/2021 - An affiliate faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, Charles Schroeder receives this honor in recognition of his distinguished scholarly achievements and leadership in the areas of polymers...

08/30/2021 - Jazmin Aguilar-Romero and Sarah Krueger are the 2021 recipients of the Women in Chemistry Inclusive Leadership Award sponsored by the Department of Chemistry Office of Graduate Diversity and Program...

08/30/2021 - The Vallee Scholar program appointed six new scholars this year in its continuing mission to provide unrestricted funding for national and international early career researchers at a critical stage...

08/27/2021 - The exhibit opened in the summer of 2020 and celebrates the invention of MRI by late UIUC chemistry faculty member Paul Lauterbur along with the foundational research that started on campus in the...

08/23/2021 - Presidential Medallions were given to key leaders behind the SHIELD efforts and vaccine work in response to COVID-19, including chemistry professors Martin Burke and Paul Hergenrother and chemistry...

08/20/2021 - A new program in the Department of Chemistry serving chemistry majors who identify as African American, LatinX, or Native American offers a combination of monthly professional development workshops,...

08/18/2021 - The inaugural Research Response to Community Crisis Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities was awarded to the university’s SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell program that utilized a...

08/17/2021 - The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced seven award recipients in the 2021 program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering, totaling $799,470.

08/12/2021 - The one-month visiting professorship opportunity at the Kavli Institute at the University of Oxford allows Stephen Sligar to collaborate with Professor Dame Carol Robinson on protein-protein and...