News

2013-06-16 - Richard Lampo (M.S. Chemistry, ’79), St. Joseph, Ill., was named Researcher of the Year at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. He was commended for advancing the state of practice for fiber-reinforced polymer composites in infrastructure applications benefitting the Department of Defense and nation. This technology is being used to build and sustain critical military and civil...

2011-01-01 - Elaine Fuchs (B.S. 1972) has received the Madison Medal from Princeton University. Named for James Madison, Princeton's first graduate alumnus, the Madison Medal was established in 1973 by the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA). Upon the recommendation of the APGA Committee on Nominations and Awards and the Madison Meal Selection Committee, this honor is conferred each year on...

2010-01-01 - Nine Department of Chemistry Alumni were named 2010 ACS Fellows.

2017-01-17 - When students return to classes today for the spring semester, they might not recognize their old classrooms. Years in the making, the Chemistry Annex renovations are complete.

2017-01-09 - Paul Hergenrother received the 2017 ACS Cope Scholar Award for innovative use and application of organic synthesis to solve critical problems at the frontiers of chemical biology and translational drug discovery.

2017-04-07 - Martin Gruebele will be awarded the 2017 Nakanishi Prize at the Plenary ACS National Award Ceremony for his landmark spectroscopic studies showing how proteins initiate their folding on ultrafast time scales and how they fold in individual living cells. The Gruebele group uses lasers, microscopy, and computational approaches to explore complex biochemical processes such as...

2017-03-01 - Douglas Mitchell's research group has created a new bioinformatics tool, RODEO, that promises to capture the breadth of microbial biosynthetic potential.

2017-04-06 - Kenneth Suslick will be awarded the annual Crano Memorial Award by the Akron ACS section at their general meeting held on April 26th.

2017-03-07 - The late Allene Rosalind Jeanes (PhD, ’38) will be inducted posthumously into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May for, in part, creating a blood plasma extender used by medics in the Korean and Vietnam wars.

2017-04-07 - The research of the chemistry department is highlighted in this LAS News Article.

2017-02-28 - Postdoctoral fellow Semin Lee designed a method for synthesizing conjugated nanohoops, which are reminiscent of the shortest segment of a carbon nanotube. Beckman Institute News

2017-03-30 - Congratulations to Freddy Nguyen, a 2015 Illinois Chemistry PhD graduate, who was chosen for a prestigious Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows Award. Nguyen is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT working on development of nanosensors for in vivo monitoring of cancer therapeutics. According to Nguyen, "The research I am planning to pursue is focused on the development of nanoscale...

2016-09-12 - Fuel cells have long held promise as power sources, but low efficiency has created obstacles to realizing that promise. Researchers at the University of Illinois and collaborators have identified the active form of an iron-containing catalyst for the trickiest part of the process: reducing oxygen gas, which has two oxygen atoms, so that it can break apart and combine with ionized hydrogen to make...

2016-11-04 - New program boosts junior faculty for outstanding teaching and research. Alison was chosen for her development of sustainable catalysts for use in industry and her exemplary and innovative teaching abilities. Six assistant professors have been recognized for their exceptional accomplishments in teaching and research as part of a new program to highlight and encourage the contributions of...

2016-11-21 - Chad Rienstra is among six Illinois faculty members elected as 2016 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.