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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.

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...