2014-05-31 - One of the most-quoted reasons for pursuing undergraduate research are the strong bonds that the experience creates-- between the university and the student, between students, and between faculty and students.

2014-05-31 - Looking at a smooth sheet of plastic in one University of Illinois laboratory, no one would guess that an impact had recently blasted a hole through it. Illinois researchers have developed materials that not only heal, but regenerate. Until now, self-repairing materials could only bond tiny microscopic cracks. The new regenerating materials fill in large cracks and holes by regrowing material....

2014-05-31 - Hirata group alumnus Dr. Olaseni Sode (PhD, 2012) has been named one of a highly selective group of recipients of the prestigious Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences.

2014-05-31 - Professor Wilfred van der Donk was the third recipient of the Bioorganic Chemistry Award, given biennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) to recognise excellence in any area of bioorganic chemistry.

2014-04-24 - Don DeCoste has been honored with two campus teaching awards this year. First, he received a LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff Award and month later a Provost's Excellence in Undergradute Teaching Award. Exerpt from an email sent by Department Head, Gregory Girolami Dr. DeCoste has been a valuable member of the teaching staff in the Department of...

2014-04-08 - Robert R. Chambers passed away peacefully at home in Studio City, CA surrounded by his family on April 7, 2014. In his 90 years, Bob combined a sunny Western-plains optimism with a boundless curiosity, keen intelligence and energetic nature to fashion a life of high achievement across a wide range of pursuits. Bob was born in Lincoln, NE on May 23, 1923 to Guy C. Chambers and Grace Rood Chambers...

2014-04-05 - Alumnus and longtime friend of the Department of Chemistry Prof. Sheldon Shore passed away unexpectedly on April 4, 2014.

2014-04-01 - A drug under clinical trials to treat tuberculosis could be the basis for a class of broad-spectrum drugs that act against various bacteria, fungal infections and parasites, yet evade resistance, according to a study by University of Illinois chemists and collaborators.

2014-04-01 - Rodriguez-Lopez member Zach Barton has been named a winner of the highly prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship.

2014-04-01 - Mitchell Group member Patricia Blair has been named one of ten recipients of the American Chemical Society's Women Chemist Committee's Eli Lilly / WCC Travel Grant Award, which will facilitate travel to the Fall 2014 American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

2014-04-01 - Internal damage in fiber-reinforced composites, materials used in structures of modern airplanes and automobiles, is difficult to detect and nearly impossible to repair by conventional methods. A small, internal crack can quickly develop into irreversible damage from delamination, a process in which the layers separate. This remains one of the most significant factors limiting more widespread use...

2014-04-01 - Scientists have solved a decades-old medical mystery – and in the process have found a potentially less toxic way to fight invasive fungal infections, which kill about 1.5 million people a year. The researchers say they now understand the mechanism of action of amphotericin, an antifungal drug that has been in use for more than 50 years – even though it is nearly as toxic to human cells as it is...

2014-03-31 - Prashant Jain was named a 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry. The Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving nominations of the very best scientists of the generation from the United States and Canada. The prestigious awards are given to scientists, mathematicians, and economists and...

2014-03-01 - Illinois chemistry alumna Sara Skrabalak received the 2014 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry at the March ACS meeting. Her research involves the creation of multi-functional materials useful in catalysis, biotechnology, energy, and environmental remediation. She is presently Associate Professor at Indiana University. Skrabalak was previously honored by...

2014-03-01 - Professor Scott E. Denmark was awarded the 2014 Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry from the American Chemical Society at the ACS Meeting in Dallas, March, 2014. This award, which has been bestowed since 1962 (Henry Gilman) was given in recognition of Prof. Denmark's creative applications of organosilicon compounds in organic synthesis and his fundamental investigations of...