2017-05-11
- Kenneth S. Suslick has been appointed the 76th Eastman Professor at the University of Oxford for the academic year 2018-2019. The Eastman Professorship is one of the world's most respected visiting professorships, which brings “an American scholar of the highest distinction” to the University of Oxford each year in any field of study.
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- 2017-05-10 - Paul Hergenrother's team reports that they now know how to build a molecular Trojan horse that can penetrate gram-negative bacteria, solving a problem that for decades has stalled the development of effective new antibiotics against these increasingly drug-resistant microbes.Posted: 2017-05-10
- 2017-05-10 - Prashant Jain has received a 2017 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award. This award is given each year to a very few of the faculty on campus whose contributions were truly exceptional in terms of quality of work and overall achievement.Posted: 2017-05-10
- 2017-05-09 - Jeffrey Moore, the Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry, a professor of materials science and engineering, and a long-time Beckman faculty member, has been named director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.Posted: 2017-05-10
- 2017-05-05 - Alumnus Karol Sokolowski received a Chemistry High Achievement scholarship from an anonymous donor that allowed him to finish his undergraduate education in chemistry. The annual scholarship is among the largest private scholarships on campus. LAS NewsPosted: 2017-05-10
- 2017-05-08 - Jerome Davis and Kang Yong Loh received Beckman Institute Undergraduate Fellowships and Ashley Lenhart received a Janssen Gamily Undergraduate Research Award.Posted: 2017-05-10
- 2017-05-08 - Prashant Jain was chosen as the Kavli Foundation Emerging Lecturer for the Fall 2017 ACS meeting. This lecture is a high profile, general audience lecture that highlights one of the top young chemists in the United States.Posted: 2017-05-08
- 2017-05-04 - Martin Burke was announced as an inaugural faculty of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. The faculty will consist of prominent researchers, administrators and medical professionals with a broad range of expertise invaluable to building the world’s first engineering-based college of medicine....Posted: 2017-05-05
- 2017-03-01 - Organic Chemistry graduate student, Emma Southgate, received a 2017 WCC Merck Research Award.Posted: 2017-05-05
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- 2017-03-20 - A Department of Chemistry graduate student, Zachary Goldsmith, was selected as a recipient of the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship program for the 2017-2018 academic year. The award includes a stipend and tuition allowance in return for completing research for the Blue Waters Project.Posted: 2017-05-05
- 2017-04-20 - Timothy Moneypenny, a doctoral candidate in materials chemistry, has been selected as a 2017 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow.Posted: 2017-05-05
- 2017-04-01 - The department is pleased to announce the endowment of a new annual lectureship in materials chemistry. Dr. Jonathan L. Sessler has generously funded the Suslick-Sessler Lectureship in Materials Chemistry.Posted: 2017-05-05
- 2018-05-08 - The department will offer three online summer courses during Summer Session II - June 11th-August 2nd, 2018.Posted: 2017-05-05