News

2017-03-01 - Organic Chemistry graduate student, Emma Southgate, received a 2017 WCC Merck Research Award.

2017-04-03 - The Chemistry Department at Illinois is pleased to announce that four graduate students in the program have received the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. 2017 NSF GRFP Winners Erin Nissen (Dlott) Lucas Hernandez (...

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.

2017-04-13 - Two students, Andrew Tran and Dil Patel, chosen for 2017 Senior 100 Honorary by the College of LAS.

2017-04-20 - Timothy Moneypenny, a doctoral candidate in materials chemistry, has been selected as a 2017 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow.

2017-04-01 - The department is pleased to announce the endowment of a new annual lectureship in materials chemistry. Dr. Jonathan L. Sessler has generously funded the Suslick-Sessler Lectureship in Materials Chemistry.

2018-05-08 - The department will offer three online summer courses during Summer Session II - June 11th-August 2nd, 2018.

2017-04-20 - Gretchen Adams received the 2016-2017 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff at the LAS Teaching Excellence Awards Ceremony.

2017-04-26 - The Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching recognizes sustained excellence in and innovative approaches to undergraduate teaching and contributions beyond classroom instruction that have an overall positive impact on undergraduate student learning.

2017-03-27 - Steven C. Zimmerman spoke about his drug discovery efforts for myotonic dystrophy at the David Y. Gin Symposium. This biannual symposium honors the late Dave Gin who was a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry from 1996 to 2006.

2017-04-13 - Scott Denmark has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

2017-04-12 - Catherine Jones Murphy named 2017 Materials Research Society Fellow.

2017-04-12 - David Sarlah named a 2017 Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Scholar by the College of LAS. This award is granted to faculty based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the college. LAS News Article

2017-04-19 - Martin Burke proposes billion-dollar project to synthesize most of the hundreds of thousands of known organic natural products in search of new medicines. The effort, which would harness an automated synthesis machine he and his colleagues developed to snap together molecules from a set of premade building blocks, could cost $1 billion and take 20 years,...

2017-05-04 - Jeffrey Moore has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. ...