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  • Head shot of Nick Jackson on a dark grey background
    Nicholas E. Jackson selected as a 2025 Cottrell Scholar
    2025-02-12 - Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named 16 early career scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy as recipients of its 2025 Cottrell Scholar Awards, including Illinois chemistry faculty member Nicholas E. Jackson, an assistant...
     Posted: 2025-02-12
  • A person wearing a virtual gaming headset and hand controls faces forward in front of a big screen showing the images he is seeing in the headset.
    Minecraft players can now explore whole cells and their contents
    2025-02-03 - Scientists have translated nanoscale experimental and computational data into precise 3D representations of bacteria, yeast and human epithelial, breast and breast cancer cells in Minecraft, a video game that allows players to explore, build and manipulate structures in three dimensions. The innovation will allow researchers and students of all ages to navigate biological cells, puncturing...
     Posted: 2025-02-03
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    In Memoriam: Alumnus and Professor Emeritus Clifford E. Dykstra
    2025-01-30 - University of Illinois Alumnus and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Clifford E. Dykstra (BS, ’73) passed away Jan. 18, 2025, at the age of 72. A memorial service will be March 1 at the Arcola Presbyterian Church, 305 E. Jefferson St., Arcola, Illinois. The visitation will be 2-3 p.m. with a service to follow at...
     Posted: 2025-01-30
  • Portrait of Suri with arms crossed standing in front of main entrance to Noyes Laboratory.
    Suri Bandyopadhyay selected Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow
    2024-11-18 - A graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry, Suri Bandyopadhyay, is one of seven University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students selected as 2024 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows. The Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows Program funds students conducting interdisciplinary research...
     Posted: 2025-01-28
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    Nicholas E. Jackson receives The Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Award
    2025-01-28 - Professor Nicholas E. Jackson has been selected to receive The Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Award and deliver the Kavli Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecture at the upcoming American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2025 Meeting in San Diego, California. The Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry award recognizes the achievements of outstanding young chemical scientists. The...
     Posted: 2025-01-28
  • Head shot of Prashant Jain
    Prashant Jain to receive 2025 Craver Award for spectroscopy contributions
    2025-01-28 - Professor Prashant K. Jain, G. L. Clark Professor of Physical Chemistry, has been selected by the Coblentz Society to receive the 2025 Craver Award. The 2025 Craver Award will be presented to Jain this fall at SciX 2025. The Coblentz Society created this award to recognize the efforts of...
     Posted: 2025-01-28
  • Head shot of Ying Diao on a tan background
    Ying Diao, professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering and chemistry, receives Presidential Early Career Award
    2025-01-23 - Four researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. The winners this year are health and kinesiology professor Marni Boppart, physics professor...
     Posted: 2025-01-23
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    Former Illinois chemistry faculty member Martin Karplus dies at 94
    2025-01-07 - Martin Karplus, professor of chemistry emeritus at Harvard University and professeur conventionné at the University of Strasbourg, died Dec. 28 at the age of 94. A recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013, Karplus was a researcher and instructor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1955 to 1960. During that time, he carried out important theoretical work...
     Posted: 2025-01-07
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    Holiday Magic Chemistry Demonstration Show returns with a bang
    2024-12-16 - More than 450 people attended two showings of the Holiday Magic Chemistry Demonstration Show that was revived in the 2024 holiday season thanks to staff members and teaching faculty members in the Department of Chemistry. Assistant Director of Teaching Labs Serenity Desmond spearheaded the effort to revive the popular family-friendly holiday-themed community event that demonstrates...
     Posted: 2024-12-16
  • Head shot of Hee-Sun Han, blue background
    With CCIL Seed Grant, Hee-Sun Han Develops Cellular Mapping Tool for Cancer Tissue
    2024-12-10 - Hee-Sun Han, assistant professor of chemistry and Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member and assistant professor of chemistry has developed an Intracellular Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Toolkit (InSTAnT) that allows researchers to look at subcellular patterns, which could have many applications, including studying cancer. The...
     Posted: 2024-12-10
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    Study led by Angad Mehta offers insight into chloroplast evolution
    2024-12-10 - One of the most momentous events in the history of life involved endosymbiosis — a process by which one organism engulfed another and, instead of ingesting it, incorporated its DNA and functions into itself. Scientific consensus is that this happened twice over the course of evolution, resulting in the energy-generating organelles known as mitochondria and, much later, their photosynthetic...
     Posted: 2024-12-10
  • In Memoriam: Retired chemistry staff member Evelyn Carlier
    2024-11-22 - A former staff member in the Department of Chemistry, Evelyn Carlier, 92, of Champaign, died on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. Carlier worked in the physical chemistry area office in the Department of Chemistry from 1976 until her retirement in 1996 as head secretary. She retired around the time that...
     Posted: 2024-12-09
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    Scott E. Denmark awarded honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    2024-12-06 - In a special ceremony on Nov. 16, 2024, the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, one of the premier research institutions in the world, awarded Professor Scott E. Denmark an honorary doctorate in recognition of outstanding achievements throughout his scientific career. The honorary doctorate certificate mentions his specific work developing new catalytic...
     Posted: 2024-12-06
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    Andrew A. Gewirth awarded the 2024 Electrodeposition Division Research Award
    2024-10-31 - The Electrochemical Society awarded the 2024 Electrodeposition Division Research Award to Professor Andrew A. Gewirth, Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor in Analytical Chemistry. The Electrochemical Society seeks to advance solid state and electrochemical science and technology. The...
     Posted: 2024-12-06
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    Markita Landry (PhD, '12) inspires Illinois chemistry students with research, educational journey
    2024-12-04 - Markita Landry (PhD, ’12) is an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a 2024 Blavatnik National Award winner and 2020 University of Illinois Young Alumna Awardee who recently returned to the University of Illinois...
     Posted: 2024-12-04

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