• 2022-05-13 - A first year graduate student at UIUC, Xu recently tested her ability to explain research in the Shen lab in front of a live audience on campus. A member of professor Mei Shen's lab, Xu has a diverse mix of activities she enjoys, including boxing.
     Posted: 2022-05-13
  • 2022-05-11 - Two chemistry graduate students in the C² program — Joenisse Rosado-Rosa and Catherine Jalomo — were recognized for outstanding mentorship of undergraduate students in the chemical sciences. Chemical Science + Community (C²) is comprised of chemistry and chemical engineering graduate and undergraduate students from underrepresented groups.
     Posted: 2022-05-11
  • 2022-05-09 - The annual Willis H. Flygare Memorial Lecture in Physcial Chemistry featured Naomi Halas, a Rice University professor who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plasmonics.
     Posted: 2022-05-09
  • 2022-05-06 - The 18 researchers selected for the teacher-scholar awards are all within the first five years of their academic careers, have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education.
     Posted: 2022-05-06
  • 2022-05-05 - Two innovative research projects of professors Jefferson Chan and Andrew Gewirth in the Department of Chemistry have been selected to receive the latest round of support from the Discovery Fund, which will facilitate the exploration of new cancer screening methods and new ways to make steel without producing carbon dioxide.
     Posted: 2022-05-05
  • 2022-04-28 - Yunyan Sun is a PhD student in professor Jeff Moore's group who will be investigating a type of force-sensitive molecule known as a mechanophore with the ultimate goal of making advancements in targeted drug delivery.
     Posted: 2022-05-05
  • 2022-05-02 - Chemistry professor Angad Mehta and graduate student researchers Jason Cournoyer and Sarah Altman conducted a study that recapitulates what scientists have long theorized — that evolution of complex life forms got its start when one cell engulfed another and the two learned to live in harmony.
     Posted: 2022-05-02
  • 2022-04-29 - A recent Investiture ceremony celebrated his selection as the John and Margaret Witt Professor of Chemistry, an endowed fund that will allow his research group to continue its work in the discovery of future medicines from biological sources.
     Posted: 2022-04-29
  • 2022-03-15 - CAS Associates are tenured Illinois faculty members whose project proposals are selected in an annual competition. They are granted one semester of teaching release time in order to pursue an individual scholarly or creative project.
     Posted: 2022-04-27
  • 2022-04-18 - Four Illinois chemistry graduate students have been selected 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows and four more were accorded honorable mention.
     Posted: 2022-04-18
  • 2022-04-15 - ​​​​​​​A research team led by Professor M. Christina White has discovered a new chemical reaction that provides a simple, rapid way of making tertiary amines – swinging the door wide open to the discovery of new medicinal compounds.
     Posted: 2022-04-15
  • 2022-04-13 - Kinesiology and community health professor Marni Boppart and chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler and their colleagues have developed a new method for recovering skeletal muscle after periods of immobility.
     Posted: 2022-04-13
  • 2022-04-12 - So Hirata, Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry, and Prashant Jain, Professor of Chemistry and Alumni Scholar, are among 180 artists, writers, scholars and scientists who were chosen through a rigorous peer-review process through the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 
     Posted: 2022-04-12
  • 2022-04-08 - As a teaching professor of chemistry, Ray received the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award, which recognizes instructors for outstanding performance both in and out of the classroom.
     Posted: 2022-04-08
  • 2022-04-04 - The list of faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants in the Department of Chemistry who were ranked excellent by their students has been announced from results of the Fall 2021 and Winter 2021-2022 course evaluation processes.  
     Posted: 2022-04-04