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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.

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...