2017-04-20 - Gretchen Adams received the 2016-2017 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff at the LAS Teaching Excellence Awards Ceremony.

2017-04-26 - The Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching recognizes sustained excellence in and innovative approaches to undergraduate teaching and contributions beyond classroom instruction that have an overall positive impact on undergraduate student learning.

2017-03-27 - Steven C. Zimmerman spoke about his drug discovery efforts for myotonic dystrophy at the David Y. Gin Symposium. This biannual symposium honors the late Dave Gin who was a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry from 1996 to 2006.

2017-04-13 - Scott Denmark has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

2017-04-12 - Catherine Jones Murphy named 2017 Materials Research Society Fellow.

2017-04-12 - David Sarlah named a 2017 Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Scholar by the College of LAS. This award is granted to faculty based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the college. LAS News Article

2017-04-19 - Martin Burke proposes billion-dollar project to synthesize most of the hundreds of thousands of known organic natural products in search of new medicines. The effort, which would harness an automated synthesis machine he and his colleagues developed to snap together molecules from a set of premade building blocks, could cost $1 billion and take 20 years,...

2017-05-04 - Jeffrey Moore has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. ...

2017-05-04 - Alison Fout was awarded the 2017 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. The Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained in the early years of their...

2011-07-14 - Revered Peter Arvedson died July 14, 2011, at the age of 74. Beloved husband of Joan. Loving father of Stephen (Tara) and Mark. Cherished grandfather of Matthew, Jonathan and Jason. Dear brother of Jane (James) Hood. Survived by other relatives, friends and colleagues. Peter received BS in Chemistry at University of Illinois and PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from UW-Madison; Master of Divinity from...

2011-06-26 - DEL MAR, Calif. – Lenore Hey Matheson, 93, of Del Mar, formerly of Dixon, died Sunday, June 26, 2011, at her home. She had been a resident of Del Mar since 1961. She taught high school in Georgia; did extension teaching at Oglethorpe University; taught in Illinois and Washington; and finally in the San Dieguito School District in San Diego County, Calif., prior to her retirement. Mrs. Matheson...

2011-06-03 - Joseph John Ursprung, PhD, 87, passed away Friday, June 3, 2011, at Crown Pointe Senior Living Community in Stevensville, MI. Joseph was born March 19, 1924, in Goedre, Baranya, Hungary, the son of Johann and Theresia (Renner) Ursprung. In 1927 his parents immigrated with him to Leamington, Ontario, Canada. Joseph enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1943 serving with The First Hussars of...

2011-05-29 - Ed Dunlop passed away April 26th at age 95. Eleanor Dunlop, his wife, died May 29th at age 90. They had both resided at Cokesbury Village in Hockessin, DE. Ed was born in Center, MO and graduated from Westminster College in Fulton, MO and the University of Illinois where he received his PhD. He retired as Research Manager of the Physical and Analytical Division of Central Research and...

2011-07-07 - Dr. CLYDE E. ARNTZEN Dr. Clyde E. Arntzen, 95, of Juno Beach died Thursday, July 7, 2011 at the Waterford. Dr. Arntzen was born in Crescent City, IL. He lived in Jupiter from 1979-2003, moving into The Waterford Life Care Community in December, 2003. He earned a BS in Chemistry from the University of Illinois and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Iowa State University of Science and Technology. He...

2011-06-20 - Dr. C. Gordon McCarty, 75, of Dataw Island, SC passed away peacefully at his home on June 20, 2011. Gordon was born on November 26, 1935, in Hutchinson, KS, a son of the late Gerald W. and Dorothy M McCarty. He was a graduate of Wichita High School East (1953), Wichita State University (1957 and 1959), where he received a BS and MS degree in Chemistry at the University of Illinois in Urbana-...