2021-06-15 - Three winners of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists – in life sciences, chemistry, and physical sciences and engineering ­– will be announced on July 20, each receiving $250,000 as a Blavatnik National Awards Laureate.

2021-06-11 - The St. Elmo Brady Scholars Program provides summer research opportunities at Illinois for undergraduates from Tougaloo, Howard, Fisk, and Tuskegee universities, whose chemistry programs were founded by St. Elmo Brady, a 1916 Illinois graduate who was the first African American to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States.

2021-06-09 - A Meyerhoff Scholar, member of Honors College and undergraduate researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, incoming UIUC chemistry graduate student Autumn Cook was also dedicated to being an advocate for all students, getting involved in UMBC efforts to support survivors of sexual assault and helping transgender students find and build community.

2021-06-09 - The collaborative effort that included UIUC chemistry alum Leigh-Anne Ihnken has been awarded an RSC Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award for the development of new biocatalysts for asymmetric reductive amination, from fundamental understanding of mechanism and structure to applications on an industrial scale

2021-06-08 - The Royal Society of Chemistry has awarded Kenneth Suslick with the Theophilus Redwood Award for contributions to artificial olfaction as an analytical technique and for the invention and development of the 'optoelectronic nose,' a simple yet highly effective technology for detecting toxic gases, identifying complex odorants, and rapidly diagnosing disease based on smell.

2021-05-21 - A study led by Paul Braun, Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, and postdoctoral research associate Beniamin Zahiri, and John Cook with Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. demonstrates how control over the atomic alignment of solid materials can improve the cathode-solid electrolyte interface and stability in solid-state batteries.

2021-05-21 - A research team, led by Huimin Zhao, a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a professor of chemistry, has developed a new coronavirus test that can get accurate results from a saliva sample in less than 30 minutes using a hand-held device.

2021-05-20 - The St. Elmo Brady's Postdoctoral Inclusive Excellence Symposium begins June 4 with postdoctoral researcher Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez from the University of California, Berkeley, and continues June 11 with Melanie R. McReynolds, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna H. Gray postdoctoral fellow and Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program awardee at Princeton University.

2021-05-19 - Alum Hugo Ong works in the San Francisco area as a healthcare VP Analyst and Associate Portfolio Manager at Allianz Global Investors, a long-only investment firm, with a focus on biotechnology and genomics. He develops and maintains investment ideas within his sector and communicates them to the various portfolio managers across the firm.

2021-05-19 - A total of 62 students comprise this graduate student class (61 PhD candidates and one Master of Science in Teaching Chemistry). That total also includes two student deferrals from Fall 2020. That breaks down to 46 domestic students and 16 international students. This latest class of 62 graduate students includes for the first time ever more women than men and also includes the department's...

2021-05-14 - A team of Beckman researchers that was led by Nancy Sottos and Mayank Garg and included chemistry professor Jeffrey Moore has shortened the manufacturing process of making vascular networks in structural materials by harnessing frontal polymerization of readily available resins.

2021-05-13 - Jefferson Chan and Joaquín Rodríguez-López have received named scholar positions from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences for their contributions in education and research at the University of Illinois.

2021-05-12 - The Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) award is granted to faculty early in their career based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the College of LAS.

2021-05-06 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign senior Sriyankari Chitti, a chemistry major and undergraduate researcher is one of 76 students to be offered this award from more than 8,000 applicants around the world.

2021-05-05 - The funding will enable researchers to begin screening and designing electron and ion transporting properties of polymers across the chemical genome, which will seed broader efforts in Nick Jackson's research group that are focused on data-driven design across soft materials chemistry.