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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.

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...