2022-09-12 - One of five students awarded a PPG Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) Graduate Research Assistantship to pursue cutting-edge research, Zhuang Xu will focus on investigating the assembly pathway of semiconducting polymers.

2022-09-12 - The American Chemical Society has announced the 2023 National Award winners, including chemistry professors Scott Denmark and Nancy Makri. The recipients also include Illinois chemistry alumnus Mark W. Grinstaff (PhD, '92).

2022-09-07 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received a $10.65 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s $400 million initiative seeking institutions across the nation to lead 43 Energy Frontier Research Centers over the next four years to help meet President Biden’s goal of reaching a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.

2022-09-06 - Nuzzo is a 2022 Kavli Prize Laureate in Nanoscience along with David L. Allara, Jacob Sagiv and George Whitesides for their work on self-assembled monolayers, which transformed surface science and has led to applications in areas from medical diagnostics to semiconductor devices.

2022-09-01 - Chemistry at Illinois faculty members are involved in five of the nine of interdisciplinary research projects to receive the 2022 CCIL grant funding.

2022-08-29 - Chemistry graduate student Anita Wo received the Gender Equity and Inclusion in the Chemical Sciences Inclusive Leadership Award and Claudia Berdugo-Díaz, a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering graduate student, received the runner-up GEICS Inclusive Leadership Award.

2022-08-24 - A paper published in Nature Communications details a new blood test to detect cancer that features the work of Brian Cunningham, a faculty affiliate in the Department of Chemistry, and Xing Wang, research associate professor of chemistry and co-director of the Center for Pathogen Diagnostics.

2022-08-23 - Graduate student leaders in the Department of Chemistry offer advice to first-year PhD students on how to navigate graduate school and share a highlight from their own first year in the graduate program.

2022-08-16 - The Department of Chemistry's newest group of St. Elmo Brady scholars — Alexis Duncan, Kaya Moody, and Kyla Duke from Howard University — just finished 10 weeks of a summer research experience in chemistry labs on the UIUC campus.  

2022-07-22 - The award recognizes outstanding achievement by undergraduate students in physical chemistry and encourage students to further their pursuits in the field. The recipients, who are nominated by their institution, have demonstrated excellence in physical chemistry and related fields based on research, coursework, and/or dedication as defined by the nominating institution.

2022-06-30 - Dr. Wei Zhang received his BS in chemistry from Peking University in 2000, and his PhD in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Professor Jeffrey Moore in 2005.

2022-08-12 - A research team led by chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother reports a new molecule's ability to fight drug-resistant bacteria in lab experiments and in mice with pneumonia and urinary tract infections. The researchers say fabimycin may one day be used to treat antibiotic-resistant infections in humans.

2022-08-10 - These five SEED awards announced by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement offer Cottrell Scholars the opportunity to start high-risk, high-reward new research, granting each recipient $50,000 for their projects.

2022-08-08 - An Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow, Ben Snyder is excited to join the Illinois chemistry faculty where he can tackle some of society’s most pressing challenges, including green catalysis and environmental remediation.

2022-07-25 - Chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother and veterinary clinical medicine professor Timothy Fan lead a team of researchers in a study showing evidence that a new compound called everafenib may provide an opportunity to increase therapeutic efficacy in difficult-to-treat diseases like cancers that begin in the brain.