2021-09-03 - In honor of their PhD advisors, Dekai Loo (PhD, ’87, Beak) and Jianjian Zhang (PhD, ’89, Schuster) established scholarships as a way of passing on the support they received from their Illinois chemistry graduate school advisors, the late Peter Beak and Gary Schuster.

2021-09-03 - Graduate student leaders of several organizations share why they are involved in various Chemistry at Illinois student groups and share advice for first-year graduate students as well as memories of their first year in the PhD program.

2021-09-02 - Every two years the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society presents the prestigious Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award to an exceptional younger chemist in commemoration of the technical and industrial achievements of Leo Hendrik Baekeland.

2021-09-01 - Professors Jefferson Chan and David Sarlah both joined the Chemistry at Illinois faculty in 2014.

2021-08-31 - An affiliate faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, Charles Schroeder receives this honor in recognition of his distinguished scholarly achievements and leadership in the areas of polymers and soft materials.

2021-08-30 - The Vallee Scholar program appointed six new scholars this year in its continuing mission to provide unrestricted funding for national and international early career researchers at a critical stage in their tenure-track careers.

2021-08-30 - Jazmin Aguilar-Romero and Sarah Krueger are the 2021 recipients of the Women in Chemistry Inclusive Leadership Award sponsored by the Department of Chemistry Office of Graduate Diversity and Program Climate. The awards were announced during the Women in Chemistry Conference.

2021-08-27 - The exhibit opened in the summer of 2020 and celebrates the invention of MRI by late UIUC chemistry faculty member Paul Lauterbur along with the foundational research that started on campus in the 1940s and 1950s, leading to this world-changing innovation.

2021-08-23 - Presidential Medallions were given to key leaders behind the SHIELD efforts and vaccine work in response to COVID-19, including chemistry professors Martin Burke and Paul Hergenrother and chemistry lab technician Kelsie Green.

2021-08-20 - A new program in the Department of Chemistry serving chemistry majors who identify as African American, LatinX, or Native American offers a combination of monthly professional development workshops, networking events and one-on-one peer mentorship.

2021-08-18 - The inaugural Research Response to Community Crisis Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities was awarded to the university’s SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell program that utilized a campus-developed saliva-based COVID-19 testing protocol, which was developed by a team that included chemistry professors Paul Hergenrother and Martin Burke.

2021-08-17 - The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced seven award recipients in the 2021 program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering, totaling $799,470.

2021-08-12 - The one-month visiting professorship opportunity at the Kavli Institute at the University of Oxford allows Stephen Sligar to collaborate with Professor Dame Carol Robinson on protein-protein and protein-lipid recognition events involved in KRas4b cancer signaling.

2021-08-10 - The program's third cohort of 27 STEM faculty and administrators from underrepresented backgrounds will gain leadership development to prepare them for senior roles at colleges and universities.

2021-08-03 - Professor Martin Gruebele is part of a multi-university team that has received a Phase I National Science Foundation grant to establish the NSF Center for Adapting Flaws into Features to investigate nanoscale chemical phenomena and optimize the structures and electronic properties of materials.