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  • Head shot of Martin Gruebele in front of a book shelves
    Martin Gruebele featured in LA Times article: The sound of science
    2023-02-03 - Gruebele is part of the Biophysics Sonification Group at UIUC that has experimented with using data sonification – the use of sound to convey information – in his research into the physical mechanisms of protein folding.
     Posted: 2023-02-03
  • Head shot of Lance Rodewald on a light background
    Chemistry alum to receive 2023 LAS Alumni Humanitarian Award
    2023-02-01 - Dr. Lance E. Rodewald is a senior advisor to the National Immunization Program of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
     Posted: 2023-02-01
  • Head shot of Liviu Mirica with a blurred outdoor background.
    Professor Liviu Mirica elected a 2022 AAAS Fellow
    2023-01-31 - Chemistry professor is one of seven Illinois faculty members in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Class of 2022, which also includes professor Charles Schroeder, an affiliate faculty member in chemistry.
     Posted: 2023-01-31
  • Group of study abroad students and instructor stand in front of a waterfall in Costa Rica.
    Students experience science, new culture in Costa Rica study abroad program
    2023-01-23 - Students can apply now for this short-term summer program that offers undergraduates the opportunity to learn about natural products in a tropical region of the world and gain a new cultural experience.
     Posted: 2023-01-30
  • Head shot of M. Christina White
    Illinois researchers make C&EN list of 2022 "synthesis showstoppers"
    2023-01-30 - An end-of-year review of 2022 chemistry trends and discoveries includes work by a research team in the lab of Professor M. Christina White for their discovery of a new way to build tertiary amines from secondary amines.
     Posted: 2023-01-30
  • Side by side head shots of Wilfred van der Donk, left, and Angad Mehta, right.
    University of Illinois scientists win $9.5 million to study emerging pathogens
    2023-01-26 - Chemistry professors Wilfred van der Donk and Angad Mehta and UIUC biochemistry professors Beth Stadtmueller and Nicholas Wu will work with a University of Colorado professor on a three-year project funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to investigate how to better prevent avian viruses from spreading among animals and humans.
     Posted: 2023-01-26
  • Professor Hee-Sun Han, right, and grad student Alex Schrader stand next to automated microscopic equipment they created.
    Hee-Sun Han leading Spatial Omics Initiative at Illinois
    2023-01-16 - Researchers in the Han group are developing a single molecule resolution spatial omics platform and new analytical methods that extract unique biological insights from spatial omics data.
     Posted: 2023-01-24
  • Head shot of Hye Kyung Timken
    Hye Kyung Timken (PhD, '87) to receive NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society
    2023-01-23 - The National Academy of Sciences award recognizes Timken's groundbreaking work at Chevron on innovative catalysts, which has been instrumental in making oil refineries safer, and fossil fuels more environmentally friendly.
     Posted: 2023-01-23
  • Professor Ben Snyder sits in a desk chair at his office desk with a monitor to his right side showing graphs from his latest research.
    Professor Ben Snyder joins faculty in Chemistry at Illinois
    2023-01-19 - A professor of inorganic, materials and physical chemistry, Snyder's primary research goal as he launches his independent career at Illinois will be to develop spectroscopically-guided synthetic approaches to installing well-defined, molecular active sites in porous materials.
     Posted: 2023-01-19
  • Jonathan Sweedler stands next to Fan Lam in a hallway on the Illinois campus.
    Professors Jonathan Sweedler, Fan Lam to study Alzheimer’s disease
    2023-01-19 - A new National Institutes of Health grant will fund this Beckman Institute research that will use a unique combination of imaging techniques to study Alzheimer’s disease on a scale that has never been done previously.
     Posted: 2023-01-19
  • Colorful computer-generated illustration of the influenza virus’ surface (brown) glycoprotein, hemagglutinin (green, blue), attacked by an antibody (in gold) and surrendering, which prevents the virus from infecting human cells.
    2022 SCS Science Image Challenge winners, finalists
    2023-01-18 - The School of Chemical Sciences will recognize the winners and finalists of the 2022 Science Image Challenge during an Award Ceremony at 4 p.m. on Feb. 9, 2023, in the Chemistry Library in Noyes Laboratory. 
     Posted: 2023-01-18
  • Head shot of Angad Mehta on a dark background
    Angad Mehta awarded Scialog, USDA funding for mitigating zoonotic threats
    2023-01-06 - The Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded seven new team projects in the second year of Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats. The Mehta research group will collaborate with USDA researchers on an African Swine Fever Virus project.
     Posted: 2023-01-06
  • Student researchers stand and sit side by side in a lab with a wipe off board behind them with chemical equations from their research.
    Research targets an enzyme essential to coronaviruses for potential antiviral, vaccine development
    2022-12-22 - Platform developed by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research team led by chemistry professor Angad Mehta can be adapted to a range of current and emerging RNA viruses for development of antiviral medications and live attenuated vaccine candidates.
     Posted: 2022-12-22
  • Portrait of Timothy Fan standing next to Paul Hergenrother in the lobby of the Carl R. Woese Institute of Genomic Biology.
    First test of anti-cancer agent PAC-1 in human clinical trials shows promise
    2022-12-22 - Illinois chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother and Illinois professor of veterinary clinical medicine Dr. Timothy Fan found that the compound PAC-1 has therapeutic potential in pet dogs with spontaneously occurring cancers, which set the stage for a recent phase I clinical trial of PAC-1, which spurs programmed cell death in cancer cells.
     Posted: 2022-12-22
  • Portrait of Stephen Kocheril in the atrium of the CLSL building on the UIUC campus.
    Alum Stephen Kocheril developing expertise in cryogenic ion trapping
    2022-12-15 - A PhD candidate at Brown University, Kocheril graduated from Illinois in the Class of 2016 and recently returned to his alma mater to present his doctoral research as the recipient of the Brown University Graduate Ambassador Award in chemistry.
     Posted: 2022-12-15

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