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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. 

2021-06-30 - A May 2021 graduate and aspiring physician with a triple major in molecular and cellular biology, chemistry and Spanish, Grace Maloney will serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in the city of Vigo in Galicia, Spain.

2021-06-28 - Chemistry professor Prashant Jain and g​​​​​raduate student Dinumol Devasia led a study that confirms the formation of valuable multicarbon molecules and potential renewable fuels through carbon dioxide reduction reactions.

2021-06-28 - Several professors, instructors and graduate students have been recognized for teaching excellence in the 2020-21 academic year by the Department of Chemistry and the School of Chemical Sciences. 

2021-06-28 - A team of researchers, led by Yi Lu, professor of chemistry, have developed a technique that allows DNAzymes to target and cut double-stranded DNA, overcoming a significant limitation of the technology in genetic engineering applications such as gene editing or gene therapy.

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.