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2023-05-22 - The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the most promising innovators in science and technology, has announced the 2023 Hertz Fellows, 15 remarkable doctoral students in applied science, engineering and mathematics.

2023-05-19 - The professor in Chemistry at Illinois discusses the future of electrochemistry and the importance to the field of collaboration with analytical scientists as well as materials scientists, physicists, engineers in solving big challenges like expanding renewable electricity with next-generation battery development, removing atmospheric carbon dioxide, or improving our understanding of the brain.

2023-05-18 - An Illinois interdisciplinary team including researchers in the Department of Chemistry has developed an electrically powered, metal-free approach as a sustainable way to form carbon-carbon bonds that are important in the production of pharmaceuticals and plastics.

2023-05-18 - Jeffrey Moore, Stanley O. Ikenberry Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, and Ying Diao, professor of chemistry, are part of one of the research teams to receive a seed grant for their project to develop a method for manually controlling a plant’s homeostasis to boost its resilience in challenging environments.

2023-05-17 - The St. Elmo Brady Postdoctoral Inclusive Excellence Symposium was created in 2020 to highlight the work of talented postdoctoral researchers from traditionally underrepresented groups by inviting them to the Illinois campus to present their research to students and faculty.

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...