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2020-10-01 - Fourth-year graduate student Justin Miller receives the inaugural Professor Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship, established by Dr. De-Kai Loo and Dr. Jianjian Zhang in 2018 in honor of Schuster, who was a professor of chemistry at Illinois from 1975 to 1994.

2020-11-01 - The collaborative effort, funded by the National Science Foundation, includes chemistry professors Andrew Gewirth and Joaquín Rodríguez-López and seeks to reimagine the creation of chemicals and fuels.

2020-11-09 - Matthew Boudreau, a chemistry PhD candidate, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Cancer Institute for his research in the Cancer Center at Illinois centered around a novel therapeutic, ERSO, that successfully eradicates breast cancer in multiple preclinical mouse models.

2020-11-05 - Illinois chemistry and physics professor is one of 14 Black physicists interviewed by magazine, Physics Today, the flagship publication of the American Institute of Physics.

2020-11-05 - With $4.5 million raised so far, the start-up company Lassogen moves one step closer to demonstrating the power of lasso peptides for treating human diseases such as cancer and autoimmune disorders. 

2020-11-02 - Chemical & Engineering News recently highlighted the development of the COVID-19 screening system by a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign team, which includes chemistry professors Paul Hergenrother and Martin Burke. The...

2020-10-30 - A team leader at Chevron Company, Hye Kyung Timken (PhD, '87, Oldfield) is one of 10 alumni award winners from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences honored during LAS Impact 2020, a weeklong celebration of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences that began Oct. 26.

2020-10-29 - The American Chemical Society's Committee on Minority Affairs has selected Lloyd Munjanja, the associate director of Graduate Diversity and Program Climate, as the 2020 recipient of the Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences.

2020-10-16 - Professor Christian Ray strives to create an inclusive classroom environment to help all students succeed, including those who face physical and other challenges by connecting them with support services coordinated by the Department of Chemistry and Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES).

2020-10-15 - The chemistry Administrative Office in Noyes certified silver in 2019 and is now the first office to reach gold certification in 2020 as part of the university’s Certified Green Office Program that was designed by The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2020-10-15 - Chancellor Robert J. Jones announced five committees that have been charged with identifying steps to create a campus free of structural and system racism and bias.

2020-10-14 - Greg George (BS, ‘82) and the late Benjamin Mosier (PhD, ’57, Laitinen) worked together for years on the innovative technology that has been recognized in the Process and Prototyping category by the R&D 100.

2020-10-06 - The U of I was honored by the International Laboratory Freezer Challenge as one of the top universities at implementing cold-storage best management practices and reducing energy usage for a third straight year. Twenty-one labs on campus, including some Chemistry at Illinois labs, combined to save approximately 263 kWh/day, which is the equivalent energy use of nine average households.

2020-09-30 - As COVID-19 infects millions worldwide, the pandemic has underscored the need for cost-effective, accurate, and quick diagnostics, and the Center for Pathogen Diagnostics will seek to create new detection systems that address limitations of current technologies, while leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze disease trends, analyze sensor data, and predict...

2020-09-30 - Research in the laboratories of Paul Hergenrother and U of I biochemistry professor David Shapiro was the first to show that this compound can effectively target and kill certain cancer cells. It is now the subject of a new global licensing agreement between the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG and the cancer drug development company Systems Oncology LLC.