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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.  

2022-04-01 - A Materials Science and Engineering team at Illinois that includes chemistry graduate student Carlos Juarez-Yescas and chemistry professor Paul Braun is moving on to phase two of the three-phase competition for the U.S. Department of Energy’s American-made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize.

2022-03-30 - Novel system developed by chemistry professor Liviu Mirica and postdoctoral researcher Hanah Na could lead to catalysts based on cheaper, more abundant nickel rather than more expensive precious metals.

2022-03-28 - As the CEO of LanzaTech, a carbon capture company that recently announced plans to go public, Holmgren is guiding the company in its goal to transform waste carbon into a variety of materials, including sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and the world’s first alternative jet fuel derived from industrial waste gases.

2022-03-24 - The team — which was led by professor Charles Schroeder and included professors Jeffrey Moore and Nick Jackson — designed a molecular system to measure how electrical current leaps across the gaps between molecules. Their findings enable new opportunities to design and control organic electronic devices like batteries.

2021-07-14 - 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 Spring 2021 and Summer 2021 course evaluation processes.  

2022-03-11 - The Department of Energy has granted $2 million over three years to the research team, which includes Damien Guironnet, a professor of chemistry and of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois, with the goal of developing plastic that can be recycled perpetually, reducing waste and pollution from single-use plastics. 

2022-02-28 - A multidisciplinary research team that includes Illinois chemistry professor Scott Silverman developed a new approach to 3D imaging that captures DNA methylation, a key epigenetic change associated with learning in the brain. The approach will open new avenues of research into how such changes mold the brain, allowing it to grow, learn and respond to stress.