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2015-08-01 - Congratulations to Professor Ken Schweizer, recipient of the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids from the American Chemical Society. The annual award, established in 1980, recognizes distinguished contributions to the understanding of the chemistry and physics of liquids. It’s named after ACS Past President Joel H. Hildebrand. Schweizer will...

2015-07-31 - Professor Prashant K. Jain has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation CAREER award. Each year, the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration...

2015-07-31 - Jeffrey Moore has been named the Edward Leete awardee for 2015. This biennial award is presented at the ACS fall national meeting by the Organic Division. This award honors those who have made outstanding contributions to both teaching and research. In his research, Moore integrates ideas from physical...

2015-07-01 - Jennifer Heemstra (PhD Moore, 2005) and Aaron Palmer Esser-Kahn (Postdoc, Moore, 2009-2011) were selected to receive prestigious 2015 Cottrell Scholar Awards.

2015-07-01 - Catherine Murphy was one of three Cottrell Scholars named as a recipient of the RCSA's new TREE Award (Transformational Research and Excellence in Education) intended to recognize and advance truly outstanding research and education.

2015-07-01 - Martin Gruebele and Marinda Li Wu were announced as 2015 American Chemical Society Fellows in the July 13 issue of Chemical & Engineering News.

2015-07-01 - Jonathan Tietz (Mitchell group) was selected as a graduate fellow by the ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry. This honor provides for transportation and registration costs to the 2015 Medicinal Chemistry Gordon Research Conference as well as the Medicinal Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar that precedes it. He...

2015-06-30 - New compounds that specifically attack fungal infections without attacking human cells could transform treatment for such infections and point the way to targeted medicines that evade antibiotic resistance.

2015-06-30 - Douglas_Mitchell has been named as a recipient of one of this year's Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards. Criteria for selection include "an independent body of scholarship attained within the first five years of their appointment as independent researchers, and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing outstanding...

2015-05-31 - Young chemist, Luis Real Hernandez, has been awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for the 2015-16 academic year for demonstrating leadership and academic promise in science or engineering. Luis, a junior chemistry major with an interest in the biological activity of natural compounds from foods, has been conducting research since the end of his freshman year and has co-written peer-reviewed...

2015-05-31 - Technology in common household humidifiers could enable the next wave of high-tech medical imaging and targeted medicine, thanks to a new method for making tiny silicone microspheres developed by chemists at the University of Illinois.

2015-05-31 - The 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Applied Inorganic Chemistry Award winner is Yi Lu.

2015-05-01 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry and the ACS Physical Chemistry Division have announced that Prof. Prashant K. Jain is this year's recipient of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C Lectureship Award.

2015-05-01 - Assistant Professor Brian Bellott (PhD 2010, Girolami) was recently awarded Western Illinois University's Award of Excellence in Mentoring. The award celebrates faculty who energetically support and mentor student research. Honorees are nominated by students. Western Illinois University News article

2015-05-01 - Congratulations to Christian Ray, who on April 7, 2015, received the 2014-2015 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff.