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.

2022-07-20 - The Radding award was established in 1994 by the Silicon Valley Section of the ACS to recognize demonstrated, dedicated, unselfish leadership, service and significant contributions, over a sustained period of time, to industrial, academic, or applied chemistry and to the American Chemical Society at local, regional and national levels.

2022-07-27 - A Harvard Law professor and highly regarded environmental lawyer and author, Richard Lazarus says he learned the value of rigor, education and discipline as a dual major in chemistry and economics at Illinois.

2022-07-25 - Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from UIUC and other institutions come together for a brief, yet intensive electrochemistry training program created by UIUC chemistry professor Joaquín Rodríguez-López.

2022-07-18 - University Scholars program recognizes faculty members on the University of Illinois System's three campuses for their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service.

2022-07-12 - Zhao, a chemical and biomolecular engineering professor and affiliate faculty member in chemistry, develops and applies synthetic biology tools for industrial and medical applications and studies the fundamental aspects of enzyme catalysis, cell metabolism, and gene regulation.

2022-06-24 - Chemistry professor Martin D. Burke and biochemistry graduate student Stella Ekaputri were part of a team that found a small molecule, hinokitiol, ferries iron out of liver cells lacking the protein that normally does the job and restores hemoglobin and red blood cell production.

2022-06-15 - Led by Serenity Desmond, the assistant director of Teaching Labs for Chemistry, and Physical Science Technical Assistants Michelle Colombo, Justin McGlauchlen, and Alexis Waite, a program to repurpose previously hard-to-recycle items and divert them from landfills have garnered a Chelsea Santucci Greenovation Award.

2022-06-08 - The daughter of Samoan parents and the first of seven children to attend college, Tepora Su’a knows firsthand the challenges of navigating higher education as a STEM major and first-generation college student. “I knew early on, that I wasn't going to go to college unless I got an athletic or academic scholarship - my family simply couldn't afford it,” said Tepora, who was born and raised in San...

2022-06-10 - Currently a third-year graduate student in the lab of Professor Angad Mehta, Cournoyer has continuously mentored undergraduate researchers.

2022-06-10 - In recognition of outstanding mentorship of undergraduates in research, chemistry graduate student Alex Shved has been awarded the third annual Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship.

2022-06-10 - Olshansky will study a new approach to converting sunlight into chemical potential energy with this support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program, which is intended to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by supporting exceptional researchers at the outset of their careers.