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2018-09-14 - Chemistry professor Yi Lu, left, and graduate student Evan Mirts have designed a new synthetic enzyme that reduces the compound sulfite to sulfide – a notoriously complex multistep chemical reaction that has eluded chemists for years.

2018-09-14 - Zaida “Zan” Luthey-Schulten is an international leader in computational biophysics and bioinformatics.  She has been selected as a Fellow of the Biophysical Society in 2019. Zan’s early work, motivated by the discovery of magnetic field effects on chemical reactions on the first passage time description of diffusion-limited processes and polymer chain motion is now textbook material in...

2018-09-10 - As medicine becomes more precise in delivering treatment targeted to specific areas of the body, the drug used is just one critical part of the treatment. How can chemotherapy drugs directly impact a tumor in order to destroy it without damaging other areas of the body? Scientists and physicians have to consider the material that carries the drug to its target and the effects of that material on...

2018-09-10 - Jeff Moore and Joaquin Rodriguez are part of a team that recently were recipients of the Secretary of Energy's Achievement Award.

2018-09-06 - Students and instructors can now enjoy the 2nd and 3rd floor classrooms and 217 Noyes Lab. The spaces were recently remodeled with new technology and better-conditioned spaces to enhance the learning experience.

2018-09-04 - In this special edition of our Getting to Know series, Dr. Lloyd Munjanja shares about his educational experiences as a minority and discusses the challenges and opportunities of his new role as the Assistant Director of Graduate Diversity and Program Climate.

2018-08-31 - Martin Burke is the co-founder of Ambys Medicines, which has licensed technology developed in his lab

2018-08-23 - Professor Cathy Murphy and alumna Sara Skrabalak (PhD, '07, Suslick) are featured on the ACS website celebrating women in nanotechnology.

2018-08-16 - What does it take to have a positive impact on the human experience? It requires bold ideas and the freedom to pursue innovative solutions.

2018-08-10 - Perry Lim, research intern, Serionix (undergraduate, chemistry) was a finalist for "Best Entrepreneurial Leadership in a Startup" award. While Tonisha Thacker, communication/marketing Intern, AARP (undergraduate, chemistry and sociology) won the "Most Advanced Marketing-Business Development" award.

2018-08-09 - Dr. Qing Cao (Phd, '09, Rogers) joins the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as part of the UI’s distinguished faculty hiring program.

2018-08-03 - Chemistry professor Jefferson Chan, graduate students Chelsea Anorma and Thomas Bearrood, and postdoctoral researcher Jamila Hedhli, developed a molecular probe that can tag and track elusive cancer stem cells in both cell cultures and mice.

2018-08-02 - The Beckman Institute has been publishing a video series called "Future Environments" (#scifutures). In the third installment, Rohit Bhargava, a professor of bioengineering, presented a video, which was followed by a Q&A session, on fighting cancer. In the video he explains that how we think about and fight cancer is changing because of chemical imaging, machine learning and 3D printing....

2018-08-01 - With approval from the Board of Trustees, Prof. Liviu Mirica will join the Illinois Chemistry faculty in January 2019 as the William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of Chemistry. He is currently a full professor at Washington University in St. Louis, having started his independent career there in 2008. He is a leader at the junction of inorganic, organic, and biological chemistry.  Trained...

2018-07-25 - The Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Bonding with Chemistry Day Camp is an annual event with the purpose of exposing middle school girls to various areas of chemistry.