2022-02-22 - The College of LAS has named the winners of this year’s teaching and advising awards, and Kimberly Powers, an academic advisor for the School of Chemical Sciences since 2018, has been selected to receive the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. "The College of LAS is enormously...

2022-02-21 - Abdul-Aziz (PhD, '17) has been awarded a $538,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to develop a novel approach to convert greenhouse gases into chemicals that can be used as energy sources.

2022-02-20 - A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign that includes chemistry professor Martin Gruebele is using sonification – the use of sound to convey information – to depict biochemical processes and better understand how they happen.

2022-02-16 - Alumnus Dan Hanus honors the good work and deeds of Rebecca "Becky" Simon, his advisor in the School of Chemical Sciences at Illinois when he was a student, by establishing a scholarship in the name of Simon, who passed away in 2018.

2021-01-15 - Peter K. Dorhout holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former president of the American Chemical Society.

2022-02-09 - This study led by Deborah Leckband, a professor in the departments of chemistry, chemical and biomolecular engineering, and bioengineering, found that cadherins that bond with growth factor receptors can sense mechanical force and respond by altering cell communication and growth.

2022-02-08 - Illinois researchers Martin Burke, professor of chemistry, and Daniel J. Blair, postdoctoral researcher, along with collaborators at Revolution Medicines Inc. have developed a new class of chemical building blocks that snap together to form 3D molecules with complex twists and turns, and an automated machine to assemble the blocks like a 3D printer for molecules.

2022-02-08 - Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named a diverse group of 24 early career scholars in chemistry, physics and astronomy as recipients of its 2022 Cottrell Scholar Awards. Each awardee receives $100,000.

2022-02-04 - A research team led by Chemistry at Illinois alum Rommie Amaro, who is a University of California San Diego professor, has modeled for the first time the delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus inside an aerosol.

2022-02-04 - A member of the Illinois chemistry faculty since 1964, colleagues and alumni share their memories of the Scotland-born professor who was known not only as an accomplished crystallographer and for his cutting-edge research in solid state chemistry, but also as a friendly, supportive colleague with "a big heart."

2022-01-21 - The study demonstrates how this NEO multimechanophore not only releases controlled amounts of carbon monoxide but also emits a fluorescence visually showing the amount, making the dual-functioning NEO important for fundamental research and for potential biomedical applications that include harnessing the benefits of CO.

2022-01-26 - Fourteen University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members, including chemistry professor Martin Burke, have been elected 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

2022-01-20 - A third-year graduate student, Susanna Barrett weaves into her busy schedule time for mentoring other students both outside the lab and in the lab where she is currently doing a lot of foundational work to develop a method for identifying lasso peptides that can bind to and change the activity of specific enzymes.

2022-01-20 - Vascular systems found in trees transport vital nutrients from root, to branch, to leaf. In a new study, researchers at the Beckman Institute developed a chemical process to mimic this arboreal architecture in foamed polymers, enabling directional fluid transport and adding structure throughout the material.

2022-01-27 - Professor Zaida Luthey-Schulten and graduate students Zane Thornburg, Benjamin Gilbert and Troy Brier developed a three-dimensional, fully dynamic kinetic model of a living minimal cell that mimics what goes on in the actual cell.