11/28/2023 - A team led by chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother and former graduate student Emily Geddes (PhD, '22) has discovered the physical and chemical rules for overcoming the defenses of Pseudomonas...
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11/28/2023 - A new study led by professor Ying Diao brings fresh insight into the development of semiconductor materials that can do things their traditional silicon counterparts cannot – harness the power of...
11/28/2023 - An anticancer compound developed in the collaborative labs of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Paul Hergenrother, a professor of chemistry at Illinois, and David Shapiro, a professor of...
11/15/2023 - A fifth-year PhD student who grew up on a farm in rural Ohio, Katherine Hatzis is involved in researching fundamental surface science of gold nanomaterials and engagement and outreach activities like...
11/14/2023 - The Chemistry at Illinois faculty member received the alumni award for contributions to sonochemistry and chemical sensing, which have advanced the field of medical imaging and facilitated lifesaving...
11/13/2023 - 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...
11/09/2023 - Chemistry professor Joaquín Rodríguez-López co-led a team of researchers in developing a cost-friendly, customizable, electrochemistry robot called the Electrolab to perform autonomous lab...
11/08/2023 - Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report in the journal Nature that a new antifungal molecule, devised by tweaking...
11/06/2023 - A graduate student from India, Bandyopadhyay was drawn to the Illinois chemistry graduate program by research related to photoacoustic applications of porphyrin. In his second year, he has a first...
11/02/2023 - A native Yavapai from central Arizona, Carlos Montezuma was an Illinois chemistry major, who became the first Native American graduate of the University of Illinois in 1884 and one of the first...
11/01/2023 - Two research proposals in the Department of Chemistry have been selected to receive Discovery Fund awards. The funding will support electrochemistry research that could lead to improvements in the...
10/30/2023 - A research team at the Beckman Institute that includes several chemistry professors will conduct electrochemical reactions in microdroplets to produce clean hydrogen, sequester carbon dioxide, and...
10/25/2023 - Synthetic molecules created by researchers in the lab of chemistry Prof. Lisa Olshansky could lead to more energy efficient solar energy conversion technology.
10/17/2023 - 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.
10/17/2023 - A PhD student in organic chemistry, Forzano focuses on developing a class of molecules called activatable photosensitizers in the lab and outside the lab, the fifth-year graduate student has been a...