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2017-06-19 - Graduate student Mark Burgess and postdoc Kenneth Hernandez-Burgos win the “Norman Hackerman Young Author Award” from the Electrochemical Society for the best paper from a young author in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society during 2016.

2017-06-08 - Kami Hull has won a 2017 Amgen Young Investigator Award. The award recognizes young chemists who are making significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry and pharmaceutical research.

2017-06-02 - Every few years, CAS elects a few campus faculty to the position of permanent CAS Professor. Jonathan Sweedler is currently a CAS Professor. He will be joined by three new CAS Professors: Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Catherine Murphy, and Martin Gruebele.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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....

2017-05-08 - Jerome Davis and Kang Yong Loh received  Beckman Institute Undergraduate Fellowships and Ashley Lenhart received a Janssen Gamily Undergraduate Research Award.

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.

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...