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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.

2018-07-25 - The J. C. Jamieson award is given for outstanding achievement in the field of high pressure research. This year's award is unusual in that there was a tie and it is being awarded jointly to Will Bassett and Dominique Laniel.

2018-07-24 - Professor Jonathan Sweedler, James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry, was awarded the Torben Bergman Medal in Lund, Sweden in June, 2018. He received this award for his research in analytical chemistry and neuroscience.

2018-07-16 - The 2018 School of Chemical Sciences (SCS) Teaching Awards recipients have been announced. This year’s recipients represent just a few of the large number of highly dedicated instructors in SCS.

2018-07-09 - Douglas A. Mitchell was one of eleven faculty members who was honored with the Provost's Campus Distinguished Promotion Award for 2018.

2018-07-03 - Prof. White has made pioneering contributions to the development of catalysts for selective allylic and aliphatic C—H oxidations that proceed without the requirement for substrate directing groups. Such reactions were previously considered not possible outside enzymatic catalysis.

2018-06-28 - Name: Erin Nissen. Year: 3rd Year. Hometown: Colorado Springs. Why Illinois? I loved the people and research.

2018-06-19 - A recent award ceremony gave Illinois chemistry professor John Katzenellenbogen a chance to reflect on his long and successful career.  Dr. Katzenellenbogen received the AACR Award for Outstanding Achievements in Chemistry in Cancer Research at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Chicago. This prestigious AACR award recognized Katzenellenbogen for...

2018-06-15 - Zan Luthey-Schulten, Taras Pogorelov, Chad Rienstra, and Martin Burke represent two of 34 teams who have received allocations of computation time on the Blue Waters supercomputer.