2025-09-30 - Two research proposals in the Department of Chemistry have been selected to receive Discovery Fund awards. This new round of funding will support a project exploring how peptide hormone processing in the gut changes during the development of metabolic disorders. And the funds will also...Posted:
2025-09-18 - The superior strength and light weight of high-performance carbon and plastic composite materials have reduced the fuel consumption and harmful emissions of automobiles and airplanes and improved the efficiency of electric cars and wind turbine blades. But those same superior qualities make...Posted:
2025-09-15 - Two graduate students in the School of Chemical Sciences are recipients of Gender Equity in the Chemical Sciences Inclusive Leadership Awards.This award was created to recognize graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical and...Posted:
2025-09-10 - Photosynthesis, or the ability of plants, algae and some bacteria, to convert light energy into chemical energy is inspiring one research team at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to improve synthetic electronics systems....Posted:
2025-09-08 - The manufacture of many things in our everyday lives, from clothing to electronics to vital medical devices, are dependent on petrochemicals derived from fossil fuels like crude oil and natural gas, finite raw materials whose extraction and use are harmful to the environment.For decades,...Posted:
2025-08-20 - The American Chemical Society has announced that Martin Gruebele, professor emeritus of chemistry, is the 2026 recipient of the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry.The 2026 ACS national award...Posted:
2025-08-21 - The American Chemical Society has selected chemistry Prof. M. Christina White as the 2026 recipient of the Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods. The 2026 ACS national...Posted:- 2025-08-12 - Two graduate students in chemistry have been recognized with awards from the American Chemical Society for their leadership in mentoring and research safety.Chang Jiang — Leadership in Mentoring Chang Jiang is a PhD student in chemistry advised by Jefferson Chan. Jiang also received the ...Posted:
2025-08-11 - Three faculty members in the Department of Chemistry have received promotions. Josh Vura-Weis has been promoted to full professor by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. And Hee-Sun Han and Lisa Olshansky have been promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure by the university....Posted:
2025-08-05 - As an Illinois undergraduate, Makenna Pinkham was afraid of failing Organic Chemistry I her sophomore year, but that fear quickly faded, and she started looking forward to the 8 a.m. class taught by Jordan Axelson, director of undergraduate studies, and senior lecturer.“Dr. Axelson did...Posted:
2025-07-30 - With a new five-year, $15 million award, the U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed its support of the Molecule Maker Lab Institute, a research collaboration focused on developing artificial intelligence tools for quick, accessible discovery and...Posted:
2025-07-29 - Chemistry professor Paul J. Hergenrother has been selected an American Chemical Society Fellow for 2025 in recognition of his exceptional contributions to science. The group of 36 ACS Fellows was...Posted:
Crowdsourcing chemistry: Illinois researchers attract international interest with Kaggle Competition2025-07-18 - Inspired by their own recent chemical discoveries for solar energy development using machine learning, a research team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was curious what other data-driven chemical discoveries could be possible if they could access a broader machine learning...Posted:
2025-07-17 - The ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry has selected Illinois chemistry Ph.D. student Rachel Schaaf as a recipient of this year’s Predoctoral Fellowships.These fellowships recognize outstanding predoctoral students engaged in medicinal chemistry research. Fellows are selected based on scientific...Posted:
2025-07-16 - Two Illinois chemistry graduates, Michelle Bishka and Yilun Li, have been awarded 2025 Certificates of Undergraduate Excellence by the Royal Society of Chemistry.The RSC awards the certificates as part of its...Posted: