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2023-10-17 - 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.

2023-10-16 - The Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair was established by Christine Walker in honor and memory of her late husband, Dr. Jerry A. Walker, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa with high honors and highest distinction from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1969 with a degree in chemistry.

2023-10-03 - The 2023 Akron American Chemical Society Award recognizes young scientists who show great promise in their professional careers.

2023-09-22 - The National Science Foundation grant will support a research team that includes Illinois chemistry Prof. Prashant Jain. They will develop new materials to separate and recover rare-earth elements and platinum group metals from waste streams of U.S. mines.

2023-09-22 - Professor Landes is being recognized with this Biophysical Society award for "exciting developments of single molecule measurement techniques, and their application to chemical and biological systems such as polymers and ion channels."

2023-09-18 - A group of undergraduate and graduate students joined Tepora Su'a, assistant director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Chemical Sciences, to represent the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biomolecular Engineering at UIUC during the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers 50th Annual Meeting Sept. 11-14, 2023, in New...

2023-09-11 - A fourth-year chemistry PhD student in Prof. Paul Braun's group, Carlos Juarez-Yescas is focusing his scientific curiosity on improving solid state batteries and becoming an experienced mentor by volunteering in three undergraduate mentoring programs in the Department of Chemistry.

2023-09-08 - 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.

2023-09-07 - 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 Mikael Backlund, in creating whole-cell models to transform our understanding of how cells function.

2023-07-10 - The award is given each year to a young investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of bioinorganic chemistry and includes an Award Lecture at the annual Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference.

2023-09-01 - 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 conditions for an important carbon-nitrogen bond forming reaction known as the Buchwald-Hartwig reaction.

2023-08-29 - 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.

2023-08-24 - 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 director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology for the 2023-24 academic year.

2023-08-01 - 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 theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems.

2023-08-23 - 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 that was reportedly working like a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure.