2021-03-10 - A research image created by graduate student Reshmi Dani has received honorable mention as one of six finalists in the Illinois Graduate College's 2021 Image of Research exhibition.

2021-03-09 - An assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California-Berkeley, Markita Landry (PhD, ’12) was a double-major in chemistry and physics as an undergraduate, and at Illinois, completed her doctorate in chemical physics. But she has pivoted her research to what she's most excited about, neurobiology and plant genetic engineering.

2021-03-08 - Using high-level quantum dynamics simulations Prof. Nancy Makri and graduate student Sohang Kundu are providing new insight into nature’s ability to harness quantum mechanics to process light energy into chemical energy. They have produced the first fully quantum mechanical simulation of the energy transfer process in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes that uses an accurate description of...

2021-03-08 - A new study led by Illinois chemistry Professor Martin Gruebele uses ultrafast nanometric imaging, which revealed good and bad emitters among populations of carbon dots. This observation suggests that by selecting only super-emitters, carbon nanodots can be purified to replace toxic metal quantum dots in many applications, according to the researchers.

2021-03-08 - Researchers at the Beckman Institute, including Rohit Bhargava, affiliate faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, have developed a new variation of an infrared microscope with analytical capabilities, rendering it effective for probing the chemical conformations of biomolecules. Their work was published in Analytical Chemistry and featured on the cover.

2021-03-04 - An internationally acclaimed organic chemist and UIUC professor for nearly 60 years, Peter Beak made fundamental contributions to organic chemistry that included unifying concepts and new areas of investigation and served as research advisor for more than 100 graduate and postdoctoral students.

2021-02-26 - In a study led by affiliate faculty member Huimin Zhao, researchers have developed a direct cloning method that aims to accelerate large-scale discovery of novel natural products.

2021-02-25 - An affiliate faculty member in chemistry, Rohit Bhargava was selected as the 2021 recipient of The Optical Society (OSA) Ellis R. Lippincott Award. Co-presented by the OSA, the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS), this award recognizes significant innovations in the field of vibrational spectroscopy. 

2021-02-25 - Several Cancer Center at Illinois members, including chemistry Professor Paul Hergenrother, are joining forces with scientists from the Mayo Clinic and Georgetown University on an expansive project targeting improved treatment for glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive form of brain cancer.

2021-02-23 - Using a PET imaging agent designed by chemistry Professor John Katzenellenbogen, a new clinical study shows the ability to identify which breast cancer patients are likely to benefit from a hormone therapy that’s commonly used as a treatment for estrogen receptor-positive cancer but effective in only about half of all patients.

2021-02-18 - As a senior manufacturing engineer at Abbott, Illinois chemistry alumnus Nicholas Ndiege (PhD, ’08, Shannon, Masel) is responsible for manufacturing engineering activities related to production of the company’s HeartMate 3 LVAD (left ventricular assist device).

2021-02-09 - Several chemistry faculty members are among the dozens of professors in the College of LAS who rank among the top 100,000 most-cited researchers since the mid-1990s, according to a new study based on a dataset that includes about 8 million researchers worldwide who published at least five papers in their career.

2021-02-04 - The UIUC chapter of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers has organized the Feb. 19-20, 2021, virtual conference that features Professor Tyrone B. Hayes, an integrative biology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Sibrina N. Collins, an inorganic chemist, who is the founding executive director of the Marburger...

2021-01-28 - A research team that included affiliate chemistry faculty members Huimin Zhao and Paul Selvin used single-molecule imaging to compare the genome-editing tools CRISPR-Cas9 and TALEN. Their experiments revealed that TALEN is up to five times more efficient than CRISPR-Cas9 in parts of the genome, called heterochromatin, that are densely packed.

2021-01-27 - A doctoral student in the Fout group, Daniel Najera was born in Chicago, grew up in Mexico and moved to El Paso, Texas, at age 16 to escape economic hardship and pursue educational opportunities that eventually led him to Chemistry at Illinois.