01/08/2024 - Professor Charles Schroeder, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, was recently featured in a profile story by the Materials Research Lab on the Illinois campus.
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01/08/2024 - In a recent ceremony on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, Prashant Jain was invested as the G.L. Clark Professor of Physical Chemistry with university leaders, colleagues, students...
12/20/2023 - University of Illinois chemistry researchers reveal exactly how nickel-catalyzed reactions work and discover a surprising contributor that has the potential to make these increasingly popular...
12/13/2023 - Family and friends of Chuanjing “Charlie” Xu (PhD, ’92) made a gift to Chemistry at Illinois, establishing the Chuanjing Xu Memorial Scholarship in his memory, because UIUC was instrumental in the Xu...
12/11/2023 - The Anuj Khandelwal Memorial Fund was established in 2019 in memory of Anuj Khandelwal, who was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of chemistry Prof. Martin Burke. Created by his friends and family...
12/01/2023 - The School of Chemical Sciences invites graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral associates/fellows, and staff members within the school, including the departments of chemistry and chemical...
11/28/2023 - A new study led by professor Ying Diao brings fresh insight into the development of semiconductor materials that can do things their traditional silicon counterparts cannot – harness the power of...
11/28/2023 - An anticancer compound developed in the collaborative labs of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Paul Hergenrother, a professor of chemistry at Illinois, and David Shapiro, a professor of...
11/28/2023 - A team led by chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother and former graduate student Emily Geddes (PhD, '22) has discovered the physical and chemical rules for overcoming the defenses of Pseudomonas...
11/15/2023 - A fifth-year PhD student who grew up on a farm in rural Ohio, Katherine Hatzis is involved in researching fundamental surface science of gold nanomaterials and engagement and outreach activities like...
11/14/2023 - The Chemistry at Illinois faculty member received the alumni award for contributions to sonochemistry and chemical sensing, which have advanced the field of medical imaging and facilitated lifesaving...
11/13/2023 - Dr. Chilton (MS, '60; PhD, '67) was presented the award by U.S. President Joe Biden in a ceremony at the White House on Oct. 24, 2023, for her work producing the first transgenic plant and for...
11/09/2023 - Chemistry professor Joaquín Rodríguez-López co-led a team of researchers in developing a cost-friendly, customizable, electrochemistry robot called the Electrolab to perform autonomous lab...
11/08/2023 - Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report in the journal Nature that a new antifungal molecule, devised by tweaking...
11/06/2023 - A graduate student from India, Bandyopadhyay was drawn to the Illinois chemistry graduate program by research related to photoacoustic applications of porphyrin. In his second year, he has a first...