2023-01-30 - An end-of-year review of 2022 chemistry trends and discoveries includes work by a research team in the lab of Professor M. Christina White for their discovery of a new way to build tertiary amines from secondary amines.

2023-01-26 - Chemistry professors Wilfred van der Donk and Angad Mehta and UIUC biochemistry professors Beth Stadtmueller and Nicholas Wu will work with a University of Colorado professor on a three-year project funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to investigate how to better prevent avian viruses from spreading among animals and humans.

2023-01-16 - Researchers in the Han group are developing a single molecule resolution spatial omics platform and new analytical methods that extract unique biological insights from spatial omics data.

2023-01-23 - The National Academy of Sciences award recognizes Timken's groundbreaking work at Chevron on innovative catalysts, which has been instrumental in making oil refineries safer, and fossil fuels more environmentally friendly.

2023-01-19 - A professor of inorganic, materials and physical chemistry, Snyder's primary research goal as he launches his independent career at Illinois will be to develop spectroscopically-guided synthetic approaches to installing well-defined, molecular active sites in porous materials.

2023-01-19 - A new National Institutes of Health grant will fund this Beckman Institute research that will use a unique combination of imaging techniques to study Alzheimer’s disease on a scale that has never been done previously.

2023-01-18 - The School of Chemical Sciences will recognize the winners and finalists of the 2022 Science Image Challenge during an Award Ceremony at 4 p.m. on Feb. 9, 2023, in the Chemistry Library in Noyes Laboratory. 

2023-01-06 - The Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded seven new team projects in the second year of Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats. The Mehta research group will collaborate with USDA researchers on an African Swine Fever Virus project.

2022-12-22 - Platform developed by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research team led by chemistry professor Angad Mehta can be adapted to a range of current and emerging RNA viruses for development of antiviral medications and live attenuated vaccine candidates.

2022-12-22 - Illinois chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother and Illinois professor of veterinary clinical medicine Dr. Timothy Fan found that the compound PAC-1 has therapeutic potential in pet dogs with spontaneously occurring cancers, which set the stage for a recent phase I clinical trial of PAC-1, which spurs programmed cell death in cancer cells.

2022-12-15 - A PhD candidate at Brown University, Kocheril graduated from Illinois in the Class of 2016 and recently returned to his alma mater to present his doctoral research as the recipient of the Brown University Graduate Ambassador Award in chemistry.

2022-12-06 - The Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering are awarded to innovative early-career scientists and engineers pursuing new areas of research. Tang is an alum of Professor Wilfred van der Donk's research group.

2022-11-30 - Benita Katzenellenbogen, a professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and John Katzenellenbogen, professor of Chemistry at Illinois, led a study that discovered the stimulation of estrogen receptor beta in triple-negative breast cancers alters the activity of cancer-related genes and reduces the growth and metastasis of these breast...

2022-11-29 - Illinois researchers in chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering have discovered and characterized new compounds that have the potential to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria. The collaborative project utilized a laboratory automation system at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology to evaluate and assemble multiple synthetic gene pathways from hundreds of genes at once.

2022-11-28 - A long-time runner and biker, the Illinois chemistry professor was supported in the competition in Switzerland by a crew that included Lloyd Munjanja, an assistant dean in the College of LAS who is also a runner and cyclist, and Jay Yost, the COO of Owens Funeral Home who is an ultracyclist.