2022-07-25 - Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from UIUC and other institutions come together for a brief, yet intensive electrochemistry training program created by UIUC chemistry professor Joaquín Rodríguez-López.Posted:
2022-07-18 - University Scholars program recognizes faculty members on the University of Illinois System's three campuses for their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service.Posted:
2022-07-12 - Zhao, a chemical and biomolecular engineering professor and affiliate faculty member in chemistry, develops and applies synthetic biology tools for industrial and medical applications and studies the fundamental aspects of enzyme catalysis, cell metabolism, and gene regulation.Posted:
2022-06-24 - Chemistry professor Martin D. Burke and biochemistry graduate student Stella Ekaputri were part of a team that found a small molecule, hinokitiol, ferries iron out of liver cells lacking the protein that normally does the job and restores hemoglobin and red blood cell production.Posted:
2022-06-15 - Led by Serenity Desmond, the assistant director of Teaching Labs for Chemistry, and Physical Science Technical Assistants Michelle Colombo, Justin McGlauchlen, and Alexis Waite, a program to repurpose previously hard-to-recycle items and divert them from landfills have garnered a Chelsea...Posted:
2022-06-08 - The daughter of Samoan parents and the first of seven children to attend college, Tepora Su’a knows firsthand the challenges of navigating higher education as a STEM major and first-generation college student. “I knew early on, that I wasn't going to go to college unless I got an athletic or...Posted:
2022-06-10 - Currently a third-year graduate student in the lab of Professor Angad Mehta, Cournoyer has continuously mentored undergraduate researchers.Posted:
2022-06-10 - In recognition of outstanding mentorship of undergraduates in research, chemistry graduate student Alex Shved has been awarded the third annual Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship.Posted:
2022-06-10 - Olshansky will study a new approach to converting sunlight into chemical potential energy with this support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program, which is intended to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by supporting exceptional researchers at the outset of their...Posted:
2022-06-09 - In a report published in Nature Communications, the team behind the campuswide collaboration, which included researchers from the Department of Chemistry, details the innovations in modeling, saliva testing and results reporting that helped mitigate the spread of the virus, and shares the data...Posted:
2022-06-08 - The latest class of Arnold O. Beckman fellows includes Illinois chemistry alumnus Andrew Zahrt, who graduated in August 2020 with a PhD in organic chemistry under the advisement of Professor Scott Denmark.Posted:
2022-06-08 - The annual awards are presented to individual undergraduate and graduate students for various achievements, including academic excellence and outstanding research in the chemical sciences.Posted:
2022-06-08 - The in-person event honored the Illinois faculty members who were elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022 and 2021, which included the two professors of chemistry.Posted:
2022-06-06 - Faculty member and Head of the Department of Chemistry is named winner of the Centenary Prize for pioneering work with gold nanocrystals and excellence in communication.Posted:
2022-06-01 - The Illinois Professor Emeritus of Chemistry is one of four 2022 Kavli Prize Laureates in Nanoscience being honored for contributions to the development of self-assembled monolayers on solid substrates and molecular-scale coatings to control surface properties.Posted: