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.Posted:
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...Posted:
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.Posted:
2021-06-28 - Chemistry professor Prashant Jain and graduate student Dinumol Devasia led a study that confirms the formation of valuable multicarbon molecules and potential renewable fuels through carbon dioxide reduction reactions.Posted:
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.Posted:
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.Posted:
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.Posted:
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...Posted:
2021-06-09 - A Meyerhoff Scholar, member of Honors College and undergraduate researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, incoming UIUC chemistry graduate student Autumn Cook was also dedicated to being an advocate for all students, getting involved in UMBC efforts to support survivors of sexual...Posted:
2021-06-09 - The collaborative effort that included UIUC chemistry alum Leigh-Anne Ihnken has been awarded an RSC Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award for the development of new biocatalysts for asymmetric reductive amination, from fundamental understanding of mechanism and structure to applications on...Posted:
2021-06-08 - The Royal Society of Chemistry has awarded Kenneth Suslick with the Theophilus Redwood Award for contributions to artificial olfaction as an analytical technique and for the invention and development of the 'optoelectronic nose,' a simple yet highly effective technology for detecting toxic gases,...Posted:
2021-05-21 - A study led by Paul Braun, Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, and postdoctoral research associate Beniamin Zahiri, and John Cook with Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. demonstrates how control over the atomic alignment of solid materials can...Posted:
2021-05-21 - A research team, led by Huimin Zhao, a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a professor of chemistry, has developed a new coronavirus test that can get accurate results from a saliva sample in less than 30 minutes using a hand-held device.Posted:
2021-05-20 - The St. Elmo Brady's Postdoctoral Inclusive Excellence Symposium begins June 4 with postdoctoral researcher Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez from the University of California, Berkeley, and continues June 11 with Melanie R. McReynolds, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna H. Gray postdoctoral fellow and...Posted:
2021-05-19 - Alum Hugo Ong works in the San Francisco area as a healthcare VP Analyst and Associate Portfolio Manager at Allianz Global Investors, a long-only investment firm, with a focus on biotechnology and genomics. He develops and maintains investment ideas within his sector and communicates them to the...Posted: