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2021-09-30 - A research team led by chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler has developed a new technique to rapidly isolate and chemically characterize individual organelles within cells, revealing the chemical composition of organelles that control biological growth, development and disease.

2021-03-31 - A technique that researchers call Photonic Resonator Interferometric Scattering Microscopy, or PRISM, sees and counts viruses or proteins from a sample in real time without any chemicals or dyes. Developed by a team that includes chemistry researcher Xing Wang, PRISM could lead to development of a new class of devices for rapid diagnostics and viral load monitoring, including HIV and the virus...

2021-09-23 - A new sensor developed by a research team, which was co-led by Yi Lu, a professor emeritus of chemistry, can distinguish infectious viruses from noninfectious ones thanks to selective DNA fragments and sensitive nanopore technology.

2021-09-07 - The Vilcek Foundation selected Markita del Carpio Landry (PhD, '12) to receive the Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, which is one of several foundation prizes celebrating foreign-born leaders in science, dance, and biotechnology.

2021-09-06 - Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology used advanced computational methodologies to successfully simulate the capsid disassembly step of hepatitis B viral infection at an unprecedented atomic level.

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.