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2020-04-16 - For 25 years, the Soai Reaction has endured as one of the most mysterious reactions in organic chemistry, but Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry Scott Denmark and graduate student Soumitra Athavale have shed new light on this strange chemical reaction that’s attracted the attention of scientists for decades.

2020-04-16 - After Elizabeth Murphy graduates from the Department of Chemistry next month, her next stop will be on the West Coast where she will pursue a PhD in polymeric materials chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

2020-04-16 - Every year, as we prepare for the annual Image of Research exhibition, we are simply amazed at the diversity and beauty of graduate student research on our campus. This year, we are excited to share the work of the 25 semifinalists through an online gallery. We invite you to ...

2020-04-16 - The Bhargava group has recently obtained a grant to collaborate with researchers at IIT-Delhi, a leading technology-focused educational institution in India. The grant will help develop tools to assess patients who suffer from cardiovascular disease. The grant “Partnership 2020: Leveraging U.S.-India Cooperation in Higher Education” is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State, the...

2020-04-10 - Professor Michael Koerner has worn many hats in his professional and personal life. Early in his career, he worked in private industry as a pharmaceutical process chemist at G.D. Searle & Company, then a product development and formulation scientist at The Clorox Company, then an associate partner of technology transfer at Research Corporation Technologies, and later, he became a teacher in...

2020-04-09 - Sriyankari Chitti was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for her potential to contribute to the advancement of research in the natural sciences, mathematics or engineering.

2020-04-03 - Growing up in North Miami, Safiyah Muhammad was always at the beach and naturally drawn to marine life, which led her to consider marine biology as an undergraduate at Nova Southeastern University.

2020-04-03 - The dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has announced that Professor Cathy Murphy has accepted the offer to serve as the next head of the Department of Chemistry.

2020-04-03 - A world traveler, photographer and musician, Nick Pino’s dream is to live in the big city, but it was the human connections that drew him to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to earn his PhD in chemistry, and it is those same personal connections that he says make this department unique.

2020-04-01 - With a research team of exclusively undergraduate students, Illinois chemistry alumnus Jay Wackerly, (PhD, ’08, Moore), an associate professor of chemistry at Central College in Iowa, has created and named a new molecule, ‘cambiarene,’ demonstrating its ability to grab on to specifically-targeted small molecules.

2020-03-26 - Researchers have developed the first computational model of a human cell and simulated its behavior for 15 minutes – the longest time achieved for a biological system of this complexity.

2020-03-24 - A doctoral student in the Department of Chemistry, Dinumol Devasia, has been awarded a TechnipFMC Fellowship for 2020-21 for her research focusing on the spectroscopic investigation of carbon dioxide reduction reaction.

2020-03-24 - A breakthrough by an Illinois Chemistry team of researchers could enable medicinal chemists to more easily harness “magic methylation,” a transformation that can significantly boost the potency of some drugs.

2020-03-20 - Professor Martin Gruebele and Research Professor Stephen G. Sligar are winners of the 2020 Protein Society Awards.

2020-03-20 - Saadia Chaudhry, one of five recently announced 2020 postdoctoral fellows at The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, will be collaborating with Joaquín Rodríguez-Lopéz, an associate professor of chemistry and the Ray and Beverly Mentzer Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.