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2015-11-01 - This award is presented to people who have demonstrated profound confidence in and support of the college’s diverse mission, and who have personified throughout their lives and careers the unique benefits and responsibilities that define a liberal arts and sciences education. The award also recognizes individuals who have maintained a lifelong personal bond with the College.

2015-11-01 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science is honoring 347 new fellows this year for their "scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications".

2015-11-01 - A chemist and Illinois alumnus whose work was critical to U.S. operations in World War II has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The late William Sparks (PhD, chemistry, ’36) had 145 patents to his name, but he’s best known for co-inventing poly-isobutylene-co-isoprene, more commonly known as butyl rubber, while conducting research at Standard Oil Company in 1937. Butyl...

2015-11-01 - Kenneth Suslick is one of eight 2015 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Senior Scientist Mentor Awardees. The title for his research is "The Optoelectronic Nose: An Adventure in Molecular Recognition". The award provides a $20,000 grant to emeritus faculty in the chemical sciences in support of undergraduate research to be conducted under their guidance. Awardees are selected from applications...

2015-10-31 - The national SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science) organization will recognize 13 of its chapters for outstanding achievements at the 2015 SACNAS National Conference October 29-31, 2015 in Washington D.C.

2015-10-31 - Researchers at the Beckman Institute have received more than $2 million dollars over three years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative in order to develop an analytical platform that can lead to new insights in neuroscience and create diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities in treating neurological diseases.

2015-10-01 - Searching for the precise, complexly folded three-dimensional structure of a protein can be like hacking through a jungle without a map: a long, intensive process with uncertain direction. University of Illinois researchers developed a new approach, dubbed COMPASS, that points directly to a protein’s likely structure using a combination of advanced molecular spectroscopy techniques, predictive...

2015-10-01 - Alison Fout is one of four early-career women scientists who received $50,000 grants to kick-start their academic research careers 15 October in an awards ceremony at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

2015-10-01 - Chemists have long believed that inserting nitrogen – a beneficial ingredient for making many pharmaceuticals and other biologically active molecules – into a carbon-hydrogen bond requires a trade-off between catalyst reactivity and selectivity.

2015-09-30 - The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, founded by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumnus Dr. Arnold O. Beckman, has presented the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology with a $5 million gift to establish the Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Annual Beckman-Brown Lecture on Interdisciplinary Science.

2015-09-30 - It took two postdoctoral researchers, a lab technician, four undergraduates and their faculty advisors only four years – a blink of an eye in pharmaceutical terms – to scour a collection of 10,000 bacterial strains and isolate the genes responsible for making 19 unique, previously unknown phosphonate natural products, researchers report.

2015-09-01 - The Society’s highest honor, this annual award recognizes lifetime achievements and exceptional contributions to the field of endocrinology.

2015-09-01 - The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry of Japan honors Christina White by her selection as a 2016 Mukaiyama Award winner. The purpose of the award is to recognize and encourage outstanding contributions to synthetic organic chemistry. She was cited for cracking the code for selective C-H reactivity and pioneering the late-stage C-H functionalization...

2015-08-14 - Physical chemistry professor, Linn Belford died August 14 at the age of 83. Rue Linn Belford was born in St. Louis, Missouri on December 13, 1931 to the late Rue L. Belford and Fannie Belford (neé Kelley).

2015-08-01 - Illinois chemistry alumna Sara Skrabalak has won the 2015 Baekeland Award given by the New Jersey section of the American Chemical Society. The Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award is given biennially to a US-based chemist under forty years of age, for outstanding accomplishments in pure or applied chemistry. As part of the award, a symposium in her honor is...