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2017-12-08 - He was the inventor of an anti-cancer drug. Ted Taylor was on the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois in the early 1950's. He went on to spend the rest of his career on the faculty at Princeton University. Ned Taylor, Ted's son, remarked "My Dad was everybody's friend. He had a great life. He never gave up learning. He went to his regular German class two weeks...

2017-12-07 - A "snowman" is ignited while two people juggle flaming "snowballs". A silver mirror appears inside a large glass flask. Is it magic, or is it chemistry? It's ... chemistry! If you want to see why, don't miss the Holiday Magic Show at the University of Illinois chemistry department this December. Produced by chemistry teaching faculty and students, the show demonstrates many principles of...

2017-12-05 -   Timothy Fan and Paul Hergenrother have created PAC-1, a new drug to combat brain cancer.   Read more>>

2017-11-16 - Yi Lu, the Jay and Ann Schenck Professor of Chemistry is one of five Illinois researchers who rank among world's most influential. Read More >>

2017-09-12 - Wilfred van der Donk believes universities will lead the fight against bacterial resistance to drugs. Read More>>    

2017-09-27 - With help from an endowed chairship, Paul Hergenrother is improving antibiotics. Read More>>

2017-11-13 - Illinois students participated in the first Chemistry study abroad program to Costa Rica.

2017-11-14 - The gallery features art from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Department of Chemistry. Visitors to Champaign-Urbana’s Willard Airport can now enjoy an eye-catching display of research art related to chemical sciences. The project is a collaboration between the University of Illinois School of Chemical Sciences (SCS...

2017-11-14 - Paul C. Lauterbur had a building built especially for his MRI machine. He won the Nobel Prize in 2003 for his pioneering work in the development of it. Now he was inducted (posthumously) into the Engineering & Science Hall of Fame on November 9, 2017. Read more >...

2017-11-03 - Professor Jeff Chan and his graduate student, Hailey Knox have developed a new small-molecule probe that can be used for the detection of hypoxia in deep tissue using photoacoustic imaging.

2017-11-03 - Sharon Hammes-Schiffer & Cathy Murphy published papers in the special issue honoring the 150th birthday of Marie Curie. November 7th in The Journal of Physical Chemistry (JPC), including JPC A, B, C and Letters. You can view the editorial here.

2017-10-30 - Two University of Illinois faculty members with ties to the Department of Chemistry were named to the 2017 Power List, the “Magnificent Tens” published by The Analytical Scientist magazine.

2017-10-05 - Professor Catherine Murphy is honored for long-standing commitment to the University of Illinois and the Department of Chemistry.

2017-10-24 - Michael Sofia (PhD, '84 chemistry, Katzenellenbogen) has received a 2017 College of LAS Alumni Achievement Award for discovering the cure to Hepatitis C. He will be honored this weekend during the University of Illinois homecoming festivities.

2017-09-21 - Professor Andrew Gewirth is honored for long-standing commitment to the University of Illinois and the Department of Chemistry.