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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...

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.