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2021-02-25 - An affiliate faculty member in chemistry, Rohit Bhargava was selected as the 2021 recipient of The Optical Society (OSA) Ellis R. Lippincott Award. Co-presented by the OSA, the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS), this award recognizes significant innovations in the field of vibrational spectroscopy. 

2021-02-25 - Several Cancer Center at Illinois members, including chemistry Professor Paul Hergenrother, are joining forces with scientists from the Mayo Clinic and Georgetown University on an expansive project targeting improved treatment for glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive form of brain cancer.

2021-02-23 - Using a PET imaging agent designed by chemistry Professor John Katzenellenbogen, a new clinical study shows the ability to identify which breast cancer patients are likely to benefit from a hormone therapy that’s commonly used as a treatment for estrogen receptor-positive cancer but effective in only about half of all patients.

2021-02-18 - As a senior manufacturing engineer at Abbott, Illinois chemistry alumnus Nicholas Ndiege (PhD, ’08, Shannon, Masel) is responsible for manufacturing engineering activities related to production of the company’s HeartMate 3 LVAD (left ventricular assist device).

2021-02-09 - Several chemistry faculty members are among the dozens of professors in the College of LAS who rank among the top 100,000 most-cited researchers since the mid-1990s, according to a new study based on a dataset that includes about 8 million researchers worldwide who published at least five papers in their career.

2021-02-04 - The UIUC chapter of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers has organized the Feb. 19-20, 2021, virtual conference that features Professor Tyrone B. Hayes, an integrative biology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Sibrina N. Collins, an inorganic chemist, who is the founding executive director of the Marburger...

2021-01-28 - A research team that included affiliate chemistry faculty members Huimin Zhao and Paul Selvin used single-molecule imaging to compare the genome-editing tools CRISPR-Cas9 and TALEN. Their experiments revealed that TALEN is up to five times more efficient than CRISPR-Cas9 in parts of the genome, called heterochromatin, that are densely packed.

2021-01-27 - A doctoral student in the Fout group, Daniel Najera was born in Chicago, grew up in Mexico and moved to El Paso, Texas, at age 16 to escape economic hardship and pursue educational opportunities that eventually led him to Chemistry at Illinois.

2021-01-26 - A teaching laboratory coordinator in the Department of Chemistry, Serenity Desmond is one of seven staff and academic professionals being recognized for outstanding contributions to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences in 2020-21.

2021-01-25 - The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society has named Nancy Makri the recipient of the 2021 Award in Theoretical Chemistry, recognizing her research into long-time numerical path integral simulations of quantum dissipative systems.

2021-01-19 - A theoretical chemist, Nick Jackson joins the Chemistry at Illinois faculty from the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago where he was an assistant scientist in the Materials Science Division and applied machine learning ideas to develop a computational technique called electronic coarse graining.

2021-01-12 - Most recently dean of the College of Engineering and a full professor in both the Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering at Wichita State University, Dennis Livesay (PhD, '00, Subramaniam) will become dean of Michigan Technological University’s College of Computing in February.

2021-01-11 - Professor Andrew Gewirth and graduate student Stephanie Chen have designed a new kind of copper electrode that more efficiently converts CO2 to ethylene.

2021-01-07 - The School of Chemical Sciences has announced results of the 2020 SCS Science Image Challenge that features computer-assisted or traditional scientific images of research with the overall goal of informing, educating and inspiring.

2021-01-05 - Cheng (PhD, ’74, Gutowsky), a research chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, was elected in October as the 2020 American Chemical Society president-elect by members of the ACS.