2024-05-29
- A research team led by chemistry Prof. Paul Hergenrother and former PhD student Kristen Muñoz (PhD, '23) has developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse gut.
Posted: 2024-05-29
2024-05-23 - A team from the Department of Chemistry took first place among 12 teams in a cross-campus computational science competition at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.Posted: 2024-05-22
2024-05-21 - Chemistry professor Martin Gruebele and composer and software developer Carla Scaletti used sound to investigate hydrogen-bond dynamics during the protein-folding process.Posted: 2024-05-21
2024-05-17 - Two PhD graduates, Qi Hua and Falon Kalutantirige, were awarded the 2024 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis in the Department of Chemistry.Posted: 2024-05-17
2024-05-16 - Two PhD graduates in the Department of Chemistry — Chi-Herng "Daniel" Hu and Joe Lastowski — were awarded the 2024 Theron Standish Piper Award for outstanding thesis work in inorganic chemistry.Posted: 2024-05-16- 2024-05-13 - Six undergraduate students and two graduate students were honored during the May 12, 2024, Convocation ceremony with various awards, recognizing outstanding achievement.Posted: 2024-05-13
2024-05-02 - The two chemistry emeritus professors were among a trio of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a scientist can receive.Posted: 2024-05-02
2024-04-26 - The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences.Posted: 2024-04-26
2024-04-26 - Alcorn is now a postdoctoral researcher in the Materials Physics Division of Sandia National Labs and recently returned to the Illinois campus to receive the Klemperer Award and present his dissertation research.Posted: 2024-04-26
2024-04-24 - Through the Kimberly-Clark Right Cycle Program, teaching labs and some research labs in the Department of Chemistry diverted 1.03 tons or 2,278 pounds of PPE waste in 2023, earning the department a 2024 Greenovation Award.Posted: 2024-04-24
2024-04-18 - The AAAS selected Prof. Landes “for the development of next-generation tools and models to image and understand dynamics governing separations at soft interfaces at the single analyte limit.”Posted: 2024-04-18
2024-04-10 - In a collaboration between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Rice University, a team of researchers has combined mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and demonstrated that quantum information scrambling takes place in chemical reactions and can nearly reach the same quantum mechanical limit as it does in black holes.Posted: 2024-04-10
2024-04-09 - Kristin Martin and Jason Wu are among the thousands of students nationwide to be awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation fellowships in the highly competitive program.Posted: 2024-04-09
2024-04-05 - The Dr. Eugene Kent Borchart Memorial Award in Chemistry Fund recognizes outstanding graduating seniors in chemistry and memorializes Illinois chemistry alum Dr. Borchart whose generosity shaped his legacy.Posted: 2024-04-05