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2024-04-05 - The Dr. Eugene Kent Borchart Memorial Award in Chemistry Fund recognizes outstanding graduating seniors in chemistry and memorializes Illinois chemistry alum Dr. Borchart whose generosity shaped his legacy.

2024-03-26 - The Interim Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, chemistry Prof. Catherine Murphy was recently appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ad hoc committee to conduct a quadrennial review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative.

2024-03-26 - A postdoctoral researcher in chemistry Prof. Jeffrey Moore's group, Xiaolin Liu has captured several photos during her work in the lab that have won the School of Chemical Sciences Research Image Challenge and been featured in C&EN magazine.

2024-03-20 - An Illinois chemistry alum who was advised by Prof. Nancy Makri, Sohang Kundu's dissertation, “Exciton-vibration Dynamics Using Real-Time Path Integral Methods,” was awarded the Justin Jankunas Doctoral Dissertation Award by the American Physical Society.

2024-03-14 - Three graduate students in the Department of Chemistr received Stoesser Lecture Poster Session Awards. Suritra Bandyopadhyay, a PhD student in Prof. Jeff Chan’s lab, received the Top Presentation Award.  And PhD students Amy Wahlmeier and Citlali Gutierrez from Prof. Liviu Mirica’s lab were runners up.

2024-03-05 - After a 30-year career in science, culminating in upper management at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Allen Hartford (PhD, '71) has made a gift to Illinois chemistry that is providing undergraduate research opportunities to help students engage with chemistry at a deeper level.

2024-03-05 - Beckman researchers led by bioengineering Prof. Fan Lam, chemistry Prof. Jonathan Sweedler, and Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow Richard Xie used a biochemical imaging framework integrated with deep learning to create 3D molecular maps with cell specificity to better understand how the brain functions in health and disease.

2024-03-04 - Chemistry Prof. Jeff Chan is a led a team in a Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) project demonstrating the development of an activatable cancer therapeutic that can help eliminate the side effects of traditional chemotherapies.

2024-03-01 - As Prof. Anastasia Manesis launches her independent research career as a new faculty member in Chemistry at Illinois, she reflects on the amazing women scientists who paved the way for her and helped her develop professionally and as a person.

2024-02-27 - Backlund will participate in the 34th Annual Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium in Irvine, California, on March 7-9, 2024. 

2024-02-22 - The School of Chemical Sciences has announced the 2023 Science Image Challenge list of winners and finalists featuring images that highlight research projects from the departments of chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering.

2024-02-22 - A longtime professor and administrator in the Department of Chemistry at Illinois, John P. Hummel, 92, of Champaign, passed away on Feb. 15, 2024.

2024-02-21 - Advancing the field of electrochemical analysis in one or more of the following:

2024-02-21 - In February, the American Academy of Microbiology (Academy) elected 65 new fellows to the Class of 2024, including Illinois chemistry Prof. Doug Mitchell, John and Margaret Witt Professor of Chemistry. Fellows...

2024-02-21 - The NAE announced in February 2024 the election of 114 new members, including Hye Kyung Timken (PhD, ‘87), and 21 international members, including Taeghwan Hyeon (PhD, '96).