2025-02-18
- Three Illinois scientists are among 126 recipients of the 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. According to the foundation, the awardees represent “the very best of early-career science, embodying the creativity, ambition, and rigor that drive discovery forward.”
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2025-02-12 - Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named 16 early career scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy as recipients of its 2025 Cottrell Scholar Awards, including Illinois chemistry faculty member Nicholas E. Jackson, an assistant...Posted: 2025-02-12
2025-02-03 - Scientists have translated nanoscale experimental and computational data into precise 3D representations of bacteria, yeast and human epithelial, breast and breast cancer cells in Minecraft, a video game that allows players to explore, build and manipulate structures in three dimensions. The innovation will allow researchers and students of all ages to navigate biological cells, puncturing...Posted: 2025-02-03
2025-01-30 - University of Illinois Alumnus and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Clifford E. Dykstra (BS, ’73) passed away Jan. 18, 2025, at the age of 72. A memorial service will be March 1 at the Arcola Presbyterian Church, 305 E. Jefferson St., Arcola, Illinois. The visitation will be 2-3 p.m. with a service to follow at...Posted: 2025-01-30
2024-11-18 - A graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry, Suri Bandyopadhyay, is one of seven University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students selected as 2024 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows. The Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows Program funds students conducting interdisciplinary research...Posted: 2025-01-28
2025-01-28 - Professor Nicholas E. Jackson has been selected to receive The Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Award and deliver the Kavli Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecture at the upcoming American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2025 Meeting in San Diego, California. The Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry aware recognizes the achievements of outstanding young chemical scientists. The...Posted: 2025-01-28
2025-01-28 - Professor Prashant K. Jain, G. L. Clark Professor of Physical Chemistry, has been selected by the Coblentz Society to receive the 2025 Craver Award. The 2025 Craver Award will be presented to Jain this fall at SciX 2025. The Coblentz Society created this award to recognize the efforts of...Posted: 2025-01-28
2025-01-23 - Four researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. The winners this year are health and kinesiology professor Marni Boppart, physics professor...Posted: 2025-01-23
2025-01-07 - Martin Karplus, professor of chemistry emeritus at Harvard University and professeur conventionné at the University of Strasbourg, died Dec. 28 at the age of 94. A recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013, Karplus was a researcher and instructor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1955 to 1960. During that time, he carried out important theoretical work...Posted: 2025-01-07
2024-12-16 - More than 450 people attended two showings of the Holiday Magic Chemistry Demonstration Show that was revived in the 2024 holiday season thanks to staff members and teaching faculty members in the Department of Chemistry. Assistant Director of Teaching Labs Serenity Desmond spearheaded the effort to revive the popular family-friendly holiday-themed community event that demonstrates...Posted: 2024-12-16
2024-12-10 - Hee-Sun Han, assistant professor of chemistry and Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member and assistant professor of chemistry has developed an Intracellular Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Toolkit (InSTAnT) that allows researchers to look at subcellular patterns, which could have many applications, including studying cancer. The...Posted: 2024-12-10
2024-12-10 - One of the most momentous events in the history of life involved endosymbiosis — a process by which one organism engulfed another and, instead of ingesting it, incorporated its DNA and functions into itself. Scientific consensus is that this happened twice over the course of evolution, resulting in the energy-generating organelles known as mitochondria and, much later, their photosynthetic...Posted: 2024-12-10- 2024-11-22 - A former staff member in the Department of Chemistry, Evelyn Carlier, 92, of Champaign, died on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. Carlier worked in the physical chemistry area office in the Department of Chemistry from 1976 until her retirement in 1996 as head secretary. She retired around the time that...Posted: 2024-12-09
2024-12-06 - In a special ceremony on Nov. 16, 2024, the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, one of the premier research institutions in the world, awarded Professor Scott E. Denmark an honorary doctorate in recognition of outstanding achievements throughout his scientific career. The honorary doctorate certificate mentions his specific work developing new catalytic...Posted: 2024-12-06
2024-10-31 - The Electrochemical Society awarded the 2024 Electrodeposition Division Research Award to Professor Andrew A. Gewirth, Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor in Analytical Chemistry. The Electrochemical Society seeks to advance solid state and electrochemical science and technology. The...Posted: 2024-12-06