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.
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- 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
- 2017-05-05 - Alumnus Karol Sokolowski received a Chemistry High Achievement scholarship from an anonymous donor that allowed him to finish his undergraduate education in chemistry. The annual scholarship is among the largest private scholarships on campus. LAS NewsPosted: 2017-05-10
- 2017-05-08 - Jerome Davis and Kang Yong Loh received Beckman Institute Undergraduate Fellowships and Ashley Lenhart received a Janssen Gamily Undergraduate Research Award.Posted: 2017-05-10
- 2017-05-08 - Prashant Jain was chosen as the Kavli Foundation Emerging Lecturer for the Fall 2017 ACS meeting. This lecture is a high profile, general audience lecture that highlights one of the top young chemists in the United States.Posted: 2017-05-08
- 2017-05-04 - Martin Burke was announced as an inaugural faculty of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. The faculty will consist of prominent researchers, administrators and medical professionals with a broad range of expertise invaluable to building the world’s first engineering-based college of medicine....Posted: 2017-05-05
- 2017-03-01 - Organic Chemistry graduate student, Emma Southgate, received a 2017 WCC Merck Research Award.Posted: 2017-05-05
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- 2017-03-20 - A Department of Chemistry graduate student, Zachary Goldsmith, was selected as a recipient of the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship program for the 2017-2018 academic year. The award includes a stipend and tuition allowance in return for completing research for the Blue Waters Project.Posted: 2017-05-05