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2021-08-18 - The inaugural Research Response to Community Crisis Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities was awarded to the university’s SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell program that utilized a campus-developed saliva-based COVID-19 testing protocol, which was developed by a team that included chemistry professors Paul Hergenrother and Martin Burke.

2021-08-17 - The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced seven award recipients in the 2021 program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering, totaling $799,470.

2021-08-12 - The one-month visiting professorship opportunity at the Kavli Institute at the University of Oxford allows Stephen Sligar to collaborate with Professor Dame Carol Robinson on protein-protein and protein-lipid recognition events involved in KRas4b cancer signaling.

2021-08-10 - The program's third cohort of 27 STEM faculty and administrators from underrepresented backgrounds will gain leadership development to prepare them for senior roles at colleges and universities.

2021-08-03 - Professor Martin Gruebele is part of a multi-university team that has received a Phase I National Science Foundation grant to establish the NSF Center for Adapting Flaws into Features to investigate nanoscale chemical phenomena and optimize the structures and electronic properties of materials.

2021-07-23 - The newly developed drug, called ErSO, quickly shrinks even large tumors to undetectable levels, according to the study led by chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother and biochemistry professor David Shapiro. The research team reports the findings in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

2021-07-22 - The award, presented by Langmuir and the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry, recognizes individuals working in the interdisciplinary field of colloid and surface chemistry.

2021-07-21 - With more than 10 years of experience as an Illinois chemistry lecturer, Tina Huang is the department's new Director of General Chemistry, a mostly administrative role responsible for the loads of teaching faculty, organic lectures, proper staffing of courses, overseeing TA hiring as well as evaluation and performance of the general chemistry programs.

2021-07-19 - The Johnson & Johnson WISTEM2D Scholar program recognizes scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design, and provides each with $150,000 in research funding and three years of mentorship from Johnson & Johnson, which Hee Sun Han will use to develop new methodology to study RNA-RNA interactions.

2021-07-17 - FUTURE-MINDS-QB, a bridge program streamlining a path from a master’s degree at Fisk University, a historically Black university in Nashville, to a doctoral degree at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received a T32 training grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Chemistry at Illinois faculty will participate in...

2021-07-15 - A study led by professor Jeffrey Moore and Stanford University chemist Todd Martinez demonstrates the possibility of using mechanical force to purposely alter chemical reactions and increase chemical selectivity.

2021-07-01 - Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report a new opportunity to use magnetism to reduce the energy required for CO2 electrolysis by up to 60% in a flow electrolyzer.

2021-07-01 - Six multidisciplinary teams from the United States and Canada received awards in the inaugural year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease, an initiative to better understand connections between the gastrointestinal tract and the nervous system.

2021-07-01 - The Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry recognizes scientists under the age of 40 for recent achievements in the field of electrochemistry for energy.

2021-06-30 - Meredith Sellers (PhD, '11, Seebauer), a UIUC Chemical Engineering alum and technical consultant for the engineering and scientific consulting firm, Exponent, will share her career experiences in the second installment of the 2021 Virtual Career Seminar Series organized by the Department of Chemistry Graduate Student Advisory Committee.