2023-06-06 - The vice president for research at Northwestern University, who developed new mass spectrometry technology, wanted to provide students at Illinois with the same undergraduate opportunities that changed his life. The new scholarships also honor his mentor, Illinois chemistry Professor Steve...Posted:
2023-06-06 - Researchers led by chemistry Professor Nancy Makri have developed an illustration technique that displays quantum features in an easy-to-read diagram called a coherence map, and they are using these maps to study the quantum mechanisms that underlay photosynthesis.Posted:
2023-04-20 - Chemistry graduate student Marya Ornelas and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering graduate student Vanessa DaSilva both received C2 Outstanding Mentor Awards for their work with undergraduate students in the C2 — Chemical Science through Community program.Posted:
2023-06-02 - Morgan Kennebeck, a graduate in the Class of 2023, received the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry's Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry, and sophomore Aidan Lindsay received the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry's Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry.Posted:
2023-04-20 - As the inaugural editor of Device, a new applied physical science journal from Cell Press, Marshall Brennan will lead the publication in its quest to be the breakthrough journal to support device and application-orientated research, including applied physics, applied materials, nanotechnology...Posted:
2023-05-31 - Seven bachelor's degree graduates and two doctoral degree graduates were recognized with awards at the Department of Chemistry's Convocation ceremony on May 14, 2023.Posted:
2023-05-30 - Students and postdoctoral researchers from the departments of chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering and the Molecule Maker Lab at UIUC met with Urbana middle school students to build solar cells, teaching them various STEM concepts.Posted:
2023-05-25 - Meet some of our Chemistry at Illinois Class of 2023 doctoral degree graduates and bachelor's degree graduates and learn their future plans and their secrets to success while students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Posted:
2023-05-23 - Amanda East, a graduate student in the Chan lab, was awarded the Murawski Award, and Robert Boyd, a graduate student in the Silverman lab, was awarded the Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship.Posted:
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.Posted:
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...Posted:
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.Posted:
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...Posted:
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.Posted:
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.Posted: