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2022-10-25 - A gift from Dr. T.M. (Terry) Balthazor (PhD, '75) ensures the future of the Balthazor-Senter Symposium on Frontiers in Organic Chemistry will continue and a separate gift ensures that early career professors in chemistry have funding to launch their initial research projects.

2022-10-20 - Jain was elected by the APS Division of Chemical Physics (DCP) “for the development of plasmonic semiconductors and the use of plasmons to drive simultaneous multielectron reduction reactions with chemical specificity.” Jain is one of three at UIUC elected a Fellow of APS.

2022-10-17 - Dr. Martin D. Burke, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of chemistry and of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Election to NAM “is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine," according to the academy announcement.

2022-10-06 - Professor Nick Jackson leads the initiative that includes a summer research experience for undergraduate students and a new class for undergraduate and graduate students to learn how to "do" machine learning and data science in the context of chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science applications.

2022-10-06 - Those on the Top 40 Under 40 Power List for 2022 were nominated by Analytical Scientist readers and shortlisted by an independent panel of judges.

2022-10-03 - Damien Guironnet, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and chemistry at Illinois, and Susannah Scott, a professor of sustainable catalytic processing at UC Santa Barbara, are co-lead authors on a new study detailing a process to turn polyethylene into propylene, which can then be used to make a new polymer.

2022-10-04 - ​​​​​​​The UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Georgia, Gregory H. Robinson and his research teams have made groundbreaking discoveries studying problems related to structure and bonding in organometallic compounds, specifically the synthesis, stabilization and structure of compounds with multiple bonds between heavier main group elements.

2022-09-26 - In a study led by Xing Wang, research associate professor of chemistry, tiny nets woven from DNA strands cover the spike proteins of the virus that causes COVID-19 and give off a glowing signal enabling a fast-yet-sensitive diagnostic test and opening up new possibilities that could lead to antiviral treatment.

2022-06-14 - As the 2021-22 academic year comes to a close, the School of Chemical Sciences and the Department of Chemistry have recognized a group of faculty members, faculty instructors and graduate students for their commitment to excellence in the classroom this past year. And another group of faculty and graduate students were ranked excellent on evaluations by the students in their classroom. 2021-2022...

2022-09-12 - One of five students awarded a PPG Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) Graduate Research Assistantship to pursue cutting-edge research, Zhuang Xu will focus on investigating the assembly pathway of semiconducting polymers.

2022-09-12 - The American Chemical Society has announced the 2023 National Award winners, including chemistry professors Scott Denmark and Nancy Makri. The recipients also include Illinois chemistry alumnus Mark W. Grinstaff (PhD, '92).

2022-09-07 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received a $10.65 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s $400 million initiative seeking institutions across the nation to lead 43 Energy Frontier Research Centers over the next four years to help meet President Biden’s goal of reaching a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.

2022-09-06 - Nuzzo is a 2022 Kavli Prize Laureate in Nanoscience along with David L. Allara, Jacob Sagiv and George Whitesides for their work on self-assembled monolayers, which transformed surface science and has led to applications in areas from medical diagnostics to semiconductor devices.

2022-09-01 - Chemistry at Illinois faculty members are involved in five of the nine of interdisciplinary research projects to receive the 2022 CCIL grant funding.

2022-08-29 - Chemistry graduate student Anita Wo received the Gender Equity and Inclusion in the Chemical Sciences Inclusive Leadership Award and Claudia Berdugo-Díaz, a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering graduate student, received the runner-up GEICS Inclusive Leadership Award.