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2023-08-23 - 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 Department of Chemistry has received the runner-up award.

2023-08-18 - The Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship funds students committed to pursuing interdisciplinary research projects.

2023-08-11 - 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.

2023-08-09 - 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 address challenges in quantum information science, magnetic materials, and bioinorganic chemistry, and Manesis will use genome mining and bioinformatics to focus on identifying novel...

2023-08-07 - The Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry will begin the job Aug. 16.

2023-08-04 - 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 research.

2023-05-05 - Matthew Boudreau, a graduate student in the research group of chemistry Prof. Paul Hergenrother, received the 2023 Scarborough Award for Graduate/PostGraduate Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry from the American Chemical Society's Division of Medicinal Chemistry. Each year, the Scarborough Award recognizes two graduate students and/or postdoctoral researchers who have had primary, leading roles...

2023-08-01 - 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 in future studies of health and disease.

2023-07-27 - Shen is one of 16 researchers from the U.S. and Canada to receive a $50,000 award in the final year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease, an initiative sponsored by Research Corporation for Science Advancement, The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group and the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, with support from the Walder Foundation.

2023-07-26 - The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences announced three 2023 laureates of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. They received 267 nominations from 134 institutions in 38 U.S. states, and Prashant Jain is one of 28 finalists.

2023-07-25 - The Anuj Khandelwal Memorial Fund was established in 2019 in memory of Anuj Khandelwal, who was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of chemistry Prof. Martin Burke from 2016 until Khandelwal's tragic passing in 2017. Created by his friends and family, the fund supports the Anuj Khandelwal Memorial Travel Award, which provides conference travel funding for postdoctoral researchers in the...

2023-07-06 - A research team that includes chemistry Prof. Hee-Sun Han has developed a new method for delivering antioxidants to stem cells that is reliable, long-lasting and minimizes variation, allowing the cells to avoid degenerating over time. The method could help maintain cell cultures for therapeutic use.

2023-06-30 - Professor of chemistry is one of three scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign selected to attend the WLA Forum which will be held in Shanghai, China, on November 6-8, 2023.

2023-07-11 - The high-tech company Tiptek LLC, which was founded in 2011 by Illinois chemistry alum Scott Lockledge (PhD, '90) and Illinois professors Joseph Lyding and Gregory Girolami, has received a Small Business of the Year award from the U.S. Department of Energy.

2023-07-10 - An Illinois research team led by Professor M. Christina White has developed a method to mimic liver enzyme processes with chemical reactions, which could lead to the development of new drugs or the modification of existing ones to improve their efficacy and reduce side effects.