2007-01-12 - When Margaret Kosal isn’t throwing herself out of airplanes, she’s throwing herself into her job with an equal amount of passion.

2016-01-07 - The LAS Alumni Achievement Award is given to the alumnus or alumna who, by outstanding achievement, has demonstrated the values derived from a liberal arts and sciences education.

2009-09-16 - Richard L. "Doc" Kieft, 64, of Monmouth, Ill., died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, at Great River Hospice in West Burlington.

2011-04-14 - Dr. James W. Miles - SAVANNAH - James W. Miles was born in Henderson, Kentucky on September 19, 1918, son of James W. Miles and Isabel Teresa Miles. After graduating from Madisonville High School he attended Western Kentucky University where he received a BS degree in chemistry and was commissioned a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Army reserve in 1940. Called to active duty in 1942, he served as a platoon...

2007-02-11 - In 1984, researchers first isolated the HIV virus, the culprit behind the AIDS epidemic that was spreading panic across the United States.

2013-02-10 - Some 40 years ago, Steve Miller was a chemistry doctoral student at the U of I studying DNA. He knew next to nothing about petroleum, and so it was with some dampened optimism one day that he introduced himself to a campus recruiter from Chevron, one of the largest oil companies on the planet.

2013-06-16 - Richard Lampo (M.S. Chemistry, ’79), St. Joseph, Ill., was named Researcher of the Year at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. He was commended for advancing the state of practice for fiber-reinforced polymer composites in infrastructure applications benefitting the Department of Defense and nation. This technology is being used to build and sustain critical military and civil...

2011-01-01 - Elaine Fuchs (B.S. 1972) has received the Madison Medal from Princeton University. Named for James Madison, Princeton's first graduate alumnus, the Madison Medal was established in 1973 by the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA). Upon the recommendation of the APGA Committee on Nominations and Awards and the Madison Meal Selection Committee, this honor is conferred each year on...

2010-01-01 - Nine Department of Chemistry Alumni were named 2010 ACS Fellows.

2017-01-17 - When students return to classes today for the spring semester, they might not recognize their old classrooms. Years in the making, the Chemistry Annex renovations are complete.

2017-01-09 - Paul Hergenrother received the 2017 ACS Cope Scholar Award for innovative use and application of organic synthesis to solve critical problems at the frontiers of chemical biology and translational drug discovery.

2017-04-07 - Martin Gruebele will be awarded the 2017 Nakanishi Prize at the Plenary ACS National Award Ceremony for his landmark spectroscopic studies showing how proteins initiate their folding on ultrafast time scales and how they fold in individual living cells. The Gruebele group uses lasers, microscopy, and computational approaches to explore complex biochemical processes such as...

2017-03-01 - Douglas Mitchell's research group has created a new bioinformatics tool, RODEO, that promises to capture the breadth of microbial biosynthetic potential.

2017-04-06 - Kenneth Suslick will be awarded the annual Crano Memorial Award by the Akron ACS section at their general meeting held on April 26th.

2017-03-07 - The late Allene Rosalind Jeanes (PhD, ’38) will be inducted posthumously into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May for, in part, creating a blood plasma extender used by medics in the Korean and Vietnam wars.