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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.

2015-04-30 - Thomas Allen is one of a few outstanding computational science PhD students nationwide selected to receive a 2015-2016 Blue Waters Fellowship. The fellowship provides financial support as well as an allocation of up to 50,000 node-hours on the powerful Blue Waters petascale computing system. Preference is given to applicants engaged in multidisciplinary research projects. Allen is in...

2015-04-18 - Dr. Gilbert P. Haight Jr., best known for his pioneering work in chemical education, died on Monday, April 17, 2015 of natural causes. Known to family and friends as "Gil", Dr. Haight spent his professional life as a professor of chemistry, exploring and perfecting the delivery of scientific education to college students in a career that spanned the globe. Born in Seattle on June 8, 1922,...

2015-04-02 - Giving new meaning to the term "sonic boom", University of Illinois chemists have used sound to trigger microscopic explosions. Using an "ultrasonic hammer", the researchers triggered tiny but intensely hot explosions in volatile materials, giving insight into how explosives work and how to control them. Led by chemistry professors Ken Suslick and...

2015-04-01 - Four scientists associated with the Department of Chemistry have been honored by their election to the National Academy of Sciences.

2015-03-01 - A new molecule-making machine could do for chemistry what 3-D printing did for engineering: Make it fast, flexible and accessible to anyone. Chemists at the University of Illinois, led by chemistry professor and medical doctor Martin D. Burke, built the machine to assemble complex small molecules at the click of a mouse, like a 3-D printer at the...

2015-03-01 - Douglas Mitchell is the recipient of the 2015 Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry. He is cited for his outstanding work in enzyme chemistry where the presence of enzyme action is unequivocally demonstrated. The award is in recognition of fundamental research in enzyme chemistry by a scientist not over forty years of age. He states, "The Mitchell...

2015-03-01 - Kenneth Suslick, of the Bioimaging Science and Technology Group and chemistry professor at Illinois, received the Innovation Transfer Award at the 2015 Innovation Celebration. As a collaboration among the University of Illinois, Parkland College, and the community, the Innovation Celebration recognizes local innovation and entrepreneurial excellence.