2020-08-13 - Developed on campus and now available for download, the innovative Safer Illinois app provides users with personalized coronavirus-testing results and reminders of scheduled testing, along with a display of their current testing status that will serve as one of the mechanisms to gain entry to university facilities during the pandemic.

2020-08-28 - The innovative saliva-based testing developed by the SHIELD team on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus is garnering national media attention as the FDA grants Emergency Use Authorization, and colleges and universities across the nation begin the fall semester.

2020-08-10 - The long-term goal of this new program in the Department of Chemistry is to provide full fellowships for fourth-year graduate students. Alumnus Peixin He (PhD, ’85, Faulkner) and Xiaoming Chen have made the first donation.

2020-08-04 - The Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry recognizes the research of Professor Liviu Mirica with the organization's 2020 Early Career Award.

2020-08-03 - The Center for Advanced Study has appointed seven new members to its permanent faculty, including Professor Jeffrey Moore, the Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair in the Department of Chemistry.

2020-07-22 - Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test scores were already optional for graduate school admission, but now the department has completely eliminated the scores from the process.

2020-07-16 - Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have improved the technique of frontal polymerization, where a small amount of heat triggers a moving reaction wave that produces a polymeric material. The new method enables a wider range of materials with better control over their thermal and mechanical properties.

2020-07-10 - Kaibo Feng and Mikiko Okumura are both in the group of 45 finalists from all over the world for the 2020 Reaxys PhD Prize.

2020-07-10 - As the head of Technical Development Asia Pacific for BASF in Singapore, alumna Sindhu Easwara Menon leads the technical service and application development teams for plastics applications.

2020-07-09 - Originally from Mumbai, India, Professor Prashant Jain’s path to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign began to take shape when he was a young boy with a natural curiosity for the world around him and a passion for reading that eventually led him to discover books and magazines about science, particularly physics and chemistry.

2020-06-29 - Professor Rohit Bhargava's team at the Beckman Institute has developed new techniques that improve the noise associated with nanoscale chemical imaging using atomic force microscopy. The improvements will increase the versatility and precision of the instrument.

2020-06-26 - Professor David Sarlah and Professor Hee-Sun Han have interdisciplinary projects that have been selected for the Cancer Center at Illinois’ annual seed grant awards.

2020-06-24 - Professor Wilfred Van der Donk, the Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry, has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Pedler Award for the combined application of organic chemistry, molecular biology, and biochemistry to study posttranslationally modified peptides and phosphonate natural products.

2020-06-24 - Professor Yi Lu, the Jay and Ann Schenck Professor of Chemistry, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Joseph Chatt Award for elucidating design principles of artificial metalloproteins to gain novel and deeper insights into the structure and function of natural systems.

2020-06-18 - Prashant Jain has been announced as one of 31 finalists for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists, which elevate the work and research of early-career scientists in three categories, chemistry, life sciences and physical sciences and engineering.