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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.

2016-11-18 - Yi Lu and Catherine Murphy have been named to the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list for 2016. Read Full Story

2017-01-05 - Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Lydia Kisley, who was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for 2017. The annual list highlights innovators who are under 30 years old and work in a variety of different industries, from media to manufacturing. Kisley was included on the healthcare list. Kisley, 28, is a Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois....

2016-12-13 - A professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois has been nationally recognized for demonstrating a “prolific spirit of innovation.” Kenneth Suslick, Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry and professor of materials science and engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).  The National Academy...

2016-10-01 - Jonathan V. Sweedler, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the School of Chemical Sciences, received a NIH grant for his BRAIN Initiative: Integrated Multimodal Analysis of Cell and Circuit-Specific Processes in Hippocampal Function.

2016-12-31 - Paul Hergenrother is this year's recipient of the Innovation Transfer Award - University of Illinois.

2016-08-01 - Illinois professors Nancy Sottos and Andrew Gerwith developed a method to comprehensively measure the mechanical stress and strain in lithium-ion batteries. It revealed a point of stress in charging that, if addressed through new methods or materials, could lead to faster-charging batteries.  Batteries that charge faster and have greater capacity could boost portable electronic devices and...

2016-08-01 - Chemists led by University of Illinois professor M. Christina White and graduate student Thomas Osberger found that two small-molecule iron catalysts can oxidize chiral amino acids and peptides to an array of unnatural forms, giving researchers more options for developing drug candidates.

2016-08-01 - Four University of Illinois chemists, Prashant K. Jain, Jeffrey S. Moore, Catherine Jones Murphy and Ralph G. Nuzzo were among the most highly cited authors as determined by Elsevier Scopus Data. They were among the top 300 of all researchers cited. Professor Jain was among the most highly cited in Chemical Engineering. Professors Moore, Murphy and Nuzzo were cited in the Materials Science and...

2016-07-01 - Elena Montoto was awarded a Ford Foundation predoctoral fellowship.

2016-06-30 - Three ILLINOIS students won the Judges Choice global innovation award with novel coating process to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Shell Ideas360. The Illinois team is one of five teams and the only team from the United States. As winners they received the Shell Ideas360 trophy and a National Geographic...

2016-06-01 - Alumnus, Mary-Dell Chilton, a genetic scientist, is a recipient of this year's University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award. She is founding director and vice president of Syngenta, a global biotech giant. Dr. Chilton received her PhD with Professor Lowell Hager, in 1967. During her years at Syngenta, Chilton has carried on the tradition of scientific mentorship that she learned at Illinois....

2016-05-01 - Clinical trials of the anti-cancer agent PAC-1 are continuing to expand, thanks to a $7 million angel investment from an anonymous contributor who originally invested $4 million to help get the compound this far in the drug-approval pipeline.

2016-05-01 - Paul Hergenrother is the recipient of this year's UCB-Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry. He was cited for outstanding contributions to chemical biology and anticancer drug discovery. He is a co-founder of the anticancer drug development company Vanquish Oncology. The “UCB-Ehrlich Award for...