2025-05-05 - The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced the selection of Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2025, including Illinois chemistry faculty member Nicholas E. Jackson.The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty...Posted:
2025-04-30 - Chemistry graduate student Alexander Gomez received an Outstanding Mentor award during the C2 awards ceremony on April 28.The goal of the C² program is to foster excellence in the chemical sciences at Illinois. Graduate...Posted:
2024-04-12 - Three graduate students from the Department of Chemistry were recognized by the Chemical Sciences Through Community (C2) program for outstanding mentorship of undergraduates. Oliver Pichardo Peguero is a graduate student in the research group of Prof. Jeff Chan. Danielle Loving is a...Posted:
2025-04-25 - Four faculty members from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the United States. Materials science professor...Posted:
2025-04-21 - Qian Chen, Professor and Racheff Faculty Scholar in Materials Science & Engineering, and Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded the Langmuir Lectureship of the American Chemical Society.The award is among the highest honors of the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry and is awarded...Posted:
2025-04-17 - Several years ago, a conversation with a young coffee farmer from Panama stirred in José Andino Martinez a deep curiosity about the chemistry of coffee. The farmer impressed upon Andino the significance of the coffee bean growing and roasting process in producing a wide variety of...Posted:
2025-04-14 - Sometimes less is more. That’s what chemistry researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign discovered as they were developing a new chemical reaction to produce a widely used chemical additive that gives polypropylene near-glass-like clarity and lower processing...Posted:
2025-04-11 - The Beckman Institute recognized two community members during its annual April celebration of Arnold Beckman’s birth.Microscopist and Outreach Specialist T Josek won the...Posted:
2025-04-11 - As the global population grows, the demand for food and energy is increasing even as extreme weather events make crops more vulnerable to stress. While traditional breeding takes years to develop more resilient crops, plant bioengineering offers a faster, more precise way to improve traits for...Posted:
2025-04-03 - Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report.The aptamers — short single-strand snippets of DNA that can target molecules like...Posted:
2025-04-03 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Illinois International named chemistry alumnus Taeghwan Hyeon (Seoul National University), Sharifa Sultana (Illinois), Colby Silvert (University of Maryland), Illinois graduate student Mehrdad Mohammadi, and Illinois undergraduate student David...Posted:
2025-04-02 - Juan Velásquez vividly remembers that Saturday in June 2006 when he first wandered onto the quad on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus as a new graduate student in chemistry.Less than 24 hours after landing in the wide-open Champaign County landscape dominated by corn and...Posted:
2025-03-27 - Chemistry Professor Stephan Link is one of three faculty members at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who have been named 2024 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. Link...Posted:
2025-03-24 - Renovations are now complete, and crews are installing equipment in a 6,000-square-foot area on the second floor of Noyes Laboratory that features two state-of-the-art instructional laboratories that will position the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at the forefront of chemical sciences...Posted:
2025-03-24 - Two postdoctoral researchers in the Department of Chemistry have been awarded the 2025 Anuj Khandelwal Memorial Travel Award: Dr. Chieh-Kai Chan, a postdoctoral researcher in Martin D. Burke’s group, and Dr. Josseline Ramos Figueroa, a postdoctoral researcher in Wilfred van der Donk’s group.The...Posted: