News

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.

2017-09-14 - Erin Nissen, a doctoral candidate in Dana Dlott’s research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded a Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA SSGF) to support her research into chemistry.

2017-08-23 - Paul Hergenrother has won the Sosnovsky Award for Cancer Research, one of the National Awards of the American Chemical Society.

2017-07-31 - The National Science Foundation recently granted the University of Illinois $3 million for an interdisciplinary graduate student training program to help form new insight on the brain—and to expand participation in the field of brain science itself.

2017-07-19 - It took two years, two supercomputers and two Illinois researchers, Juan Perilla and the late Klaus Schulten, to simulate 1.2 microseconds in the life of an HIV capsid, a protein cage that protects the viral genome.

2017-07-11 - Graduate student Emma Southgate (Sarlah group) has been chosen as a recipient of one of the 2017-2018 Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellowships in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. This fellowship will provide support for Southgate's research and she will participate in the Bristol Myers Squibb Awards Symposium next Spring.  

2015-09-25 - Alexander Scheeline, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and President of SpectroClick Inc. has been awarded Honorary Membership in the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS), the highest award of the Society. The award citation stated, in part, “Your prolific model for the committed university professor and your scientific endeavors on your research...

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...

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.

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.

2017-06-19 - 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.

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.

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.

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.