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2020-12-18 - A clinical study led by chemistry professor Martin Burke shows that a drug widely used to treat fungal infections improved key biomarkers in lung tissue cultures as well as in the noses of patients with cystic fibrosis, increasing optimism that a molecular prosthetics approach could provide a new way to treat all people with the disease.

2020-12-16 - A group of Illinois chemistry graduate students successfully demonstrated chemistry experiments for 32 Champaign and Urbana middle school students via Zoom during an all-virtual edition of the annual “Bonding with Chemistry” Day Camp for Girls on Dec. 5, 2020.

2020-12-15 - A member of professor Alison Fout's research group, Tabitha Miller looks ahead to postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory as she nears completion of her PhD in chemistry in early 2021.

2020-12-11 - The Department of Defense has awarded Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grants to chemistry research professor Dana Dlott and five other University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professors, all of whom are Grainger Engineering faculty or affiliates.

2020-12-11 - Researchers at the Beckman Institute, including chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler, have developed a computational strategy that enables faster chemical and spatial characterization of tissues.

2020-12-08 - Paul Braun, a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, led the development of the microlenses that have highly specialized light-focusing abilities, an advancement that is poised to improve imaging, computing and communications by significantly increasing the data-routing capability of computer chips and other optical systems.

2020-12-04 - Recent graduate student who completed his PhD in 2019 finishes first along with a 10-person team from the Max Planck Institute in Mulheim, Germany, in an international 96-hour race to identify the best synthetic route for a given small molecule.

2020-12-01 - Marshall Brennan (PhD, '15, Fout) comes to the Chicago-based SLAS from the American Chemical Society (ACS) where he served as the senior product manager of New Product Innovation.

2020-11-25 - After graduation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, senior Omar Alshangiti will continue his academic career at the University of Oxford in England following his selection as a Rhodes Scholar.

2020-11-24 - A proof-of-concept study conducted by chemistry professor Liviu Mirica and colleagues offers new evidence that copper isotopes can be used to detect the amyloid-beta protein deposits that form in the brains of people living with – or at risk of developing – Alzheimer’s disease.

2020-11-24 - Chemistry professors Rohit Bhargava, Paul Braun and Prashant Jain, along with two other University of Illinois professors, are among the 489 scientists to be awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow this year.

2020-11-18 - Amanda East, a PhD student in chemistry, works in the lab of chemistry professor Jeff Chan and with the Liang Research Group as a graduate fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

2020-11-20 - As alumnus Phillip Sharp (PhD, '69) renews support for the University of Illinois, the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of RNA splicing recalls a key moment in his education as a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry.

2020-11-18 - On Nov. 9, the Publications Division of ACS announced Sara E. Skrabalak (PhD, '06, Suslick), an Indiana University chemistry professor, as editor-in-chief of both Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters.

2020-11-11 - The American Chemical Society selected Lydia E. M. Hines (PhD, '71) as the recipient of the 2020 Helen M. Free Award for Public Outreach. The award is presented annually by the ACS Committee on Public Relations and Communications to an ACS member whose outstanding achievements have improved public recognition and appreciation for the field of chemistry.