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2024-04-26 - The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences.

2024-04-26 - Alcorn is now a postdoctoral researcher in the Materials Physics Division of Sandia National Labs and recently returned to the Illinois campus to receive the Klemperer Award and present his dissertation research.

2024-04-24 - Through the Kimberly-Clark Right Cycle Program, teaching labs and some research labs in the Department of Chemistry diverted 1.03 tons or 2,278 pounds of PPE waste in 2023, earning the department a 2024 Greenovation Award.

2024-04-18 - The AAAS selected Prof. Landes “for the development of next-generation tools and models to image and understand dynamics governing separations at soft interfaces at the single analyte limit.”

2024-04-10 - In a collaboration between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Rice University, a team of researchers has combined mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and demonstrated that quantum information scrambling takes place in chemical reactions and can nearly reach the same quantum mechanical limit as it does in black holes.

2024-04-09 - Kristin Martin and Jason Wu are among the thousands of students nationwide to be awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation fellowships in the highly competitive program.

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.