09/08/2023 - 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.
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09/07/2023 - A $30 million NSF grant supports the new center at the Beckman Institute, where Zaida Luthey-Schulten and Martin Gruebele will lead team members, who also include chemistry professors Angad Mehta and...
09/01/2023 - Illinois researchers in collaboration with a Swiss pharmaceutical company have developed a machine learning model that eliminates the need for extensive experimentation to determine the best...
08/29/2023 - 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.
08/24/2023 - Professor Jonathan V. Sweedler has been named the acting head of the Department of Chemistry following the announcement that previous head, Professor Catherine J. Murphy, will serve as interim...
08/23/2023 - In Nature, Illinois chemistry professor Prashant Jain explains "an important confounding effect" in unraveling the recent mystery surrounding LK-99, a compound of copper, lead, phosphorus and oxygen...
08/23/2023 - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering’s Jiachun Shi has received the 2023 Gender Equity and Inclusion in the Chemical Sciences (GEICS) Inclusive Leadership Award, and Catherine Jalomo in the...
08/18/2023 - The Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship funds students committed to pursuing interdisciplinary research projects.
08/11/2023 - Illinois researchers demonstrate a new method that uses the renewable energy source of electricity to recycle a prevalently used form of plastic into a high-quality re-usable material.
08/09/2023 - Majed Fataftah and Anastasia C. Manesis are excited to begin teaching, mentoring, and research in the new academic year. Fataftah will utilize synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry methods to...
08/07/2023 - The Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry will begin the job Aug. 16.
08/07/2023 - Christy F. Landes and Stephan Link, both professors of chemistry and electrical and computer engineering, are joining the chemistry faculty and transitioning their research groups to the University...
08/04/2023 - The professor in Chemistry at Illinois is one of 93 early career scientists across the nation to receive a combined $135 million from the U.S. Department of Energy for a wide range of scientific...
08/01/2023 - Researchers at Illinois and the University of Wisconsin-Madison use novel state-of-the art methods to reveal atomistic dynamics of cholesterol in cell membranes, which could have broad implications...
08/01/2023 - 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...