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2022-02-04 - A research team led by Chemistry at Illinois alum Rommie Amaro, who is a University of California San Diego professor, has modeled for the first time the delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus inside an aerosol.

2022-02-04 - A member of the Illinois chemistry faculty since 1964, colleagues and alumni share their memories of the Scotland-born professor who was known not only as an accomplished crystallographer and for his cutting-edge research in solid state chemistry, but also as a friendly, supportive colleague with "a big heart."

2022-01-21 - The study demonstrates how this NEO multimechanophore not only releases controlled amounts of carbon monoxide but also emits a fluorescence visually showing the amount, making the dual-functioning NEO important for fundamental research and for potential biomedical applications that include harnessing the benefits of CO.

2022-01-26 - Fourteen University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members, including chemistry professor Martin Burke, have been elected 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

2022-01-20 - Vascular systems found in trees transport vital nutrients from root, to branch, to leaf. In a new study, researchers at the Beckman Institute developed a chemical process to mimic this arboreal architecture in foamed polymers, enabling directional fluid transport and adding structure throughout the material.

2022-01-27 - Professor Zaida Luthey-Schulten and graduate students Zane Thornburg, Benjamin Gilbert and Troy Brier developed a three-dimensional, fully dynamic kinetic model of a living minimal cell that mimics what goes on in the actual cell.

2021-11-30 - The Journal of the American Chemical Society’s Editor-in-Chief Erick Carreira interviews Scott Denmark, the Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry at Illinois, about his vision for the future of chemistry, the interface of the chemical sciences with artificial intelligence and machine learning and his advice for the next generation of researchers.

2021-12-09 - Illinois chemistry professors Martin Burke and Taras Pogorelov co-led a team that mapped the unusual aggregate structure of the antifungal drug amphotericin B, illuminating the path to develop less-toxic forms of the drug.

2021-12-07 - Chemistry undergraduate student Andrew Sunwoo Lee is one of 20 undergraduate and graduate students and faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who were recognized during the 2021 the National Center for Supercomputing Applications' 2021 Fiddler Innovation Award ceremony in November.

2021-12-01 - A multi-institutional team of researchers will explore how to manipulate an energetically inexpensive electrostatic charge transfer mechanism to capture and release carbon dioxide.

2021-11-30 - Working last summer as a research and development intern with Mediomics, a small biotech start-up company in St. Louis, graduate student Subhendu Pandit discovered how much he enjoys research, design and development as a chemist in the industrial sector.

2021-09-16 - The $5,000 scholarships are awarded to undergraduates who have shown outstanding academic achievement and excelled in leadership, research and innovation as demonstrated by classroom performance, activities, essays, and hands-on experiences.

2021-11-08 - A research team, including chemistry professors Emad Tajkhorshid and Paul Hergenrother and PhD student Emily Geddes, invented and tested a new method for determining how chemical compounds interact with proteins in cells. Their approach offers atomic-level insight into the chemical properties that allow some antibiotics to pass through pores in the cell membranes of Gram-negative bacteria.

2021-10-26 - Organized by the Department of Chemistry's ACS Women Chemist Committee, this year's annual event will be virtual and feature a poster session, two seminar speakers and a reception for networking opportunities with all seven researchers.

2021-10-25 - Professor Jefferson Chan and graduate student Melissa Lucero developed the finely-tuned molecular agent that can seek out elusive lung cancer cells for imaging and treatment — an approach that could be used to target other cancers.