2017-07-07
- Thomas Osberger (White group) and Andy Thomas (Denmark group) are finalists for the 2017 Reaxys PhD Prize. The 45 finalists are invited to present their research at the Reaxys PhD Prize...
Posted: 2017-07-07
2017-07-07 - Lydia Kisley, a Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow, and colleagues including Martin Grueble and Deborah Leckband, recently used Fast Relaxation Imaging (FReI) to investigate the folding stability and dynamics of proteins within polyacrylamide hydrogels.Posted: 2017-07-07
2017-06-27 - Ana Peinetti a researcher in Bioengineering from Argentina, will join the laboratory of Yi Lu as a 2017 Pew Latin American Fellow.Posted: 2017-06-27- Undergraduate Student Won the 2017 Undergraduate Student Award from the Eastern Analytical Symposium2017-06-19 - Undergraduate student Mihail Krumov won the 2017 Undergraduate Student Award from the Eastern Analytical Symposium. The award pays for his travel and stay at the symposium, where he will be delivering a poster.Posted: 2017-06-19
- 2017-06-19 - Graduate student Mark Burgess and postdoc Kenneth Hernandez-Burgos win the “Norman Hackerman Young Author Award” from the Electrochemical Society for the best paper from a young author in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society during 2016.Posted: 2017-06-19
2017-06-08 - Kami Hull has won a 2017 Amgen Young Investigator Award. The award recognizes young chemists who are making significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry and pharmaceutical research.Posted: 2017-06-08- 2017-06-02 - Every few years, CAS elects a few campus faculty to the position of permanent CAS Professor. Jonathan Sweedler is currently a CAS Professor. He will be joined by three new CAS Professors: Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Catherine Murphy, and Martin Gruebele.Posted: 2017-06-02
2017-05-31 - Sharon Hammes-Schiffer has been selected as the winner of the 2019 G.M. Kosolapoff Award by the Auburn Local Section of the American Chemical Society and Auburn University.Posted: 2017-05-31- 2017-05-19 - Twelve students in the Lincoln Scholars Initiative graduated from the University of Illinois this academic year, making them the second class of LAS students who have earned a degree with support from the successful scholarship program.Posted: 2017-05-22
2017-05-18 - The University of Illinois recently welcomed a noteworthy alumnus of the College of LAS. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work returned to campus for a tour of several state-of-the-art research facilities.Posted: 2017-05-19
2017-05-12 - Martin Burke's research team has demonstrated that a small molecule can transport iron in human cells and live animals when proteins that normally do the same job are missing, a condition that often causes severe anemia in patients.Posted: 2017-05-12
2017-05-11 - Kenneth S. Suslick has been appointed the 76th Eastman Professor at the University of Oxford for the academic year 2018-2019. The Eastman Professorship is one of the world's most respected visiting professorships, which brings “an American scholar of the highest distinction” to the University of Oxford each year in any field of study.Posted: 2017-05-11
2017-05-10 - Paul Hergenrother's team reports that they now know how to build a molecular Trojan horse that can penetrate gram-negative bacteria, solving a problem that for decades has stalled the development of effective new antibiotics against these increasingly drug-resistant microbes.Posted: 2017-05-10
2017-05-10 - Prashant Jain has received a 2017 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award. This award is given each year to a very few of the faculty on campus whose contributions were truly exceptional in terms of quality of work and overall achievement.Posted: 2017-05-10
2017-05-09 - Jeffrey Moore, the Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry, a professor of materials science and engineering, and a long-time Beckman faculty member, has been named director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.Posted: 2017-05-10