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2019-04-23 - Todd Spinner, academic adviser for the School of Chemical Sciences, is a 2018-19 Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS) Award for Excellence in Academic Advising recipient. Spinner has served Chemical Sciences as an adviser since 2010. Spinner has implemented several services and programs to assist students and collaborates closely with the departments and LAS to implement time-saving technology and...

2019-04-23 - The Urbana School District recognized the Cena y Ciencias program during their recent board meeting. The outreach program, of which Dr. Joaquín Rodríguez-López is a co-leader and active participant, gives children, grades K-5, an opportunity to participate in different science activities, led completely in Spanish, while sharing a meal. Thus the name Cena y Ciencias (Spanish for "Supper and...

2019-04-18 - Three University of Illinois chemistry students have won the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.  Launched in 1952, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program is the nation’s oldest and largest fellowship program for graduate students. It is also one of the most prestigious. Previous recipients include Sergey Brin (co-founder of Google), Steven Chu (...

2019-04-17 - Professor Catherine J. Murphy, Larry Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry, and Chancellor Robert Jones have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

2019-04-15 - The Karen Wold Level the Learning Field Award is given by the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES) in memory of Karen Wold who was an access specialist at DRES. Karen spent her career engaging with her students and faculty to find solutions to academic challenges. She wanted to make the learning field more level and accessible to all. 

2019-04-10 - Professor Prashant Jain will receive the Beilby Medal and Prize "in recognition of substantial work of exceptional practical significance" in materials science. Jain will be presented the award on July 11th at the Institute's 150th Anniversary Dinner, which will be held in London, England at the Science Museum. He was quoted as saying "I am thankful to Cathy (Catherine Murphy), who nominated me...

2019-04-09 - This 2019 American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) Graduate Fellowship, which was sponsored by the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh, was given to Zachary Gossage, a 4th year graduate student in the Rodríguez-López group.

2019-04-04 - Elizabeth Neumann was chosen by a committee that includes students and faculty to receive the Graduate Student Leadership Award. The award, given by the Graduate College, celebrates graduate students who have engaged in outstanding service that has positively impacted the campus or wider community. She received the award at the Graduate Student Leadership lunch on May 2.

2019-04-03 - Professor Scott Denmark, the Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry, received the Eros Best Reagent Award for the reagent N,N'-Bis[(11bR)-3,5-dihydro-3,5-dimethyl-4-oxido-4H-dinaphtho[2,1-d:1',2'-f][1,3,2]diazaphosphepin-4-yl]-N,N'-dimethyl-1,5-pentanediamine. The award was created to honor the work of the authors to the online edition of Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis and is...

2019-03-25 - Prashant Jain was one of 19 selected for this year's Defense Science Study Group (DSSG).  DSSG is a program focused on education and study that introduces outstanding science and engineering professors to security challenges the United States faces and encourages them to apply their talents to these issues. This year, there were 178 nominations from 97 universities. 

2019-03-18 - Professor Scott E. Denmark, the R. C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry, is the 2019 recipient of The Journal of Organic Chemistry Outstanding Publication of the Year Award Lectureship. He is being recognized for his research group’s article, “Catalytic Nucleophilic Allylation Driven by the Water-Gas Shift Reaction...

2019-03-18 - An approved drug normally used to treat fungal infections could also do the job of a protein channel that is missing or defective in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis, operating as a prosthesis on the molecular scale, says new research from the University of Illinois and the University of Iowa.

2019-03-15 - The Sanibel meeting on quantum chemistry, dynamics, condensed matter physics and their biological applications was organized by the University of Florida’s Quantum Theory Project. It was held February 17-22, 2019, on St. Simons Island, GA, at the historic King and Prince Hotel on the Atlantic Ocean. The meeting celebrated the science of Klaus Ruedenberg, featuring sessions on several...

2019-03-15 - For centuries, chemists have been preoccupied with the question of how molecular structure relates to function, be it an antibiotic, fragrance, flame retardant, pigment, or vitamin—essentially, every natural and man-made object on Earth.

2019-03-14 - The Illini Success initiative, a campus-wide effort to gather career-related information about recently graduated bachelor’s degree recipients, studies alumni within six months of graduation.