2021-01-26 - A teaching laboratory coordinator in the Department of Chemistry, Serenity Desmond is one of seven staff and academic professionals being recognized for outstanding contributions to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences in 2020-21.

2021-01-25 - The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society has named Nancy Makri the recipient of the 2021 Award in Theoretical Chemistry, recognizing her research into long-time numerical path integral simulations of quantum dissipative systems.

2021-01-19 - A theoretical chemist, Nick Jackson joins the Chemistry at Illinois faculty from the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago where he was an assistant scientist in the Materials Science Division and applied machine learning ideas to develop a computational technique called electronic coarse graining.

2021-01-12 - Most recently dean of the College of Engineering and a full professor in both the Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering at Wichita State University, Dennis Livesay (PhD, '00, Subramaniam) will become dean of Michigan Technological University’s College of Computing in February.

2021-01-11 - Professor Andrew Gewirth and graduate student Stephanie Chen have designed a new kind of copper electrode that more efficiently converts CO2 to ethylene.

2021-01-07 - The School of Chemical Sciences has announced results of the 2020 SCS Science Image Challenge that features computer-assisted or traditional scientific images of research with the overall goal of informing, educating and inspiring.

2021-01-05 - Cheng (PhD, ’74, Gutowsky), a research chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, was elected in October as the 2020 American Chemical Society president-elect by members of the ACS.

2020-12-21 - Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.

2020-12-18 - A clinical study led by chemistry professor Martin Burke shows that a drug widely used to treat fungal infections improved key biomarkers in lung tissue cultures as well as in the noses of patients with cystic fibrosis, increasing optimism that a molecular prosthetics approach could provide a new way to treat all people with the disease.

2020-12-16 - A group of Illinois chemistry graduate students successfully demonstrated chemistry experiments for 32 Champaign and Urbana middle school students via Zoom during an all-virtual edition of the annual “Bonding with Chemistry” Day Camp for Girls on Dec. 5, 2020.

2020-12-15 - A member of professor Alison Fout's research group, Tabitha Miller looks ahead to postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory as she nears completion of her PhD in chemistry in early 2021.

2020-12-11 - The Department of Defense has awarded Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grants to chemistry research professor Dana Dlott and five other University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professors, all of whom are Grainger Engineering faculty or affiliates.

2020-12-11 - Researchers at the Beckman Institute, including chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler, have developed a computational strategy that enables faster chemical and spatial characterization of tissues.

2020-12-08 - Paul Braun, a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, led the development of the microlenses that have highly specialized light-focusing abilities, an advancement that is poised to improve imaging, computing and communications by significantly increasing the data-routing capability of computer chips and other optical systems.

2020-12-04 - Recent graduate student who completed his PhD in 2019 finishes first along with a 10-person team from the Max Planck Institute in Mulheim, Germany, in an international 96-hour race to identify the best synthetic route for a given small molecule.