2023-05-09 - In a collaborative study that included researchers in the lab of chemistry professor Liviu Mirica, a novel imaging method using DNA-based fluorescent sensors is yielding new insights about the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

2023-05-08 - One of the highest professional honors a scientist can receive, chemistry professor Nancy Makri is among 120 members and 23 international members elected this year to recognize their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

2023-05-05 - Gifts from University of Illinois emeritus professors Jiri Jonas and Ana Jonas provide critical support for science and medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including in the Department of Chemistry, and at the University of Illinois Chicago.

2022-09-30 - Chemistry professors Liviu Mirica and Scott Silverman have been selected to receive the latest round of support from the Discovery Fund, which was established in 2018 by chemistry alums Ving Lee (PhD, ‘75) and May Lee (PhD, ‘76) to provide funding for innovative research.

2023-05-01 - A fourth-year graduate student, Anita Wo is the recipient of the Advocate Award, which recognizes an Illinois faculty member, staff member, or student who consistently "walks the walk" and advocates for gender equity in their everyday lives.

2023-04-28 - One of the projects, led by instructional faculty member Elise McCarren, will continue a pilot program that supports the success and retention of underrepresented, first-generation, and rural LAS STEM majors, including students who are chemistry majors.

2023-04-26 - A team of scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Rice University and Danville Area Community College has created an affordable laboratory curriculum for teaching advanced data analysis techniques and instrument building to first-year general chemistry students.

2023-04-26 - The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning announces list of faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants ranked excellent by students in Fall 2022 courses.

2023-04-24 - A fourth-year PhD student in the Mirica Group, Sagnik Chakrabarti is doing exactly what he hoped to do when he was an undergraduate student in India — cutting-edge research that involves making molecules with metals in them.

2023-03-27 - The Department of Chemistry hosted a networking reception on March 26, 2023, in conjunction with the ACS National Meeting in downtown Indianapolis. The event was open to all Chemistry at UIUC alumni and friends in the Indianapolis area as well as current faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. Professor Cathy Murphy, Department Head and Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in...

2023-04-11 - Charles Schroeder won the 2023 Beckman Institute Vision and Spirit Award, a recognition of how he demonstrates Arnold Beckman’s vision of excellence and interdisciplinary collaboration.

2023-04-17 - Set to launch sometime this year aboard the Peregrine lunar lander, three alumni of the College of Fine and Applied Arts at Illinois designed the 10-ounce structure that includes nanosized gold rods from the research lab of Illinois chemistry professor Catherine Murphy.

2023-08-07 - 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 of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the 2023-24 academic year.

2023-04-12 - Zane Thornburg, a PhD candidate in professor Zaida Luthey-Schulten's group, and Kelly Powderly, a postdoctoral researcher in professor Cathy Murphy's group, will begin their postdoctoral fellowships this fall along with four other researchers in the Postdoctoral Fellows Program.

2023-04-12 - A graduate in the Class of 2021, Kocheril joins a group of 42 finalists from across the United States who will participate in a final round of interviews for one of the most competitive and coveted PhD fellowships in the nation.