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2014-07-31 - Reid T. Milner Professor Deborah Leckband has been elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society Class of 2014 Fellows. Fellow status is awarded to BMES members who demonstrate exceptional achievements and experience in the field of biomedical engineering, and a record of membership and participation in the Society. Public recognition of Prof. Leckband...

2014-07-31 - Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Swanlund Professor of Chemistry, and So Hirata, Blue Waters Professor and Alumni Research Scholar in Chemistry, have been elected Members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS). Typically, only 3 to 8 scientists are elected to this prestigious academy annually, and there are only about 130 members worldwide.

2014-07-31 - Prashant K. Jain is one of seven recipients of the Beckman Young Investigator Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. This highly competitive award of $750,000 over four years is "intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences,...

2014-07-31 - Alison Fout has been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and grant of $400,000 from the National Science Foundation to support her research program.

2014-07-31 - Taras Pogorelov, Senior Research Scientist in the School of Chemical Sciences and Research Professor in the Chemistry Department, has been named as one of nine NCSA Faculty Fellows for 2014.

2014-07-31 - Antibiotic resistance is depleting our arsenal against deadly diseases and infections, such as tuberculosis and Staph infections, but recent research shows promise to speed up the drug discovery process.

2014-07-01 - Former Illinois Chemistry faculty member Fred Wall died on March 31, 2010, in San Diego; he was 97. He was preceded in death by his wife Clara, who died in November of 2009, and is survived by his daughter Elizabeth Wall Ralston. Fred had a distinguished career as a research chemist, teacher, and university administrator. Frederick Theodore Wall was born December 14, 1912; during high school, he...

2014-06-30 - The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Jeffrey S. Moore, the Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois, an HHMI Professor.

2014-05-31 - Professor Martin Burke has received two notable prizes in recent months. The first is the 2014 Thieme IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. This prize is awarded to a scientist under 40 whose research has had a major impact in synthetic organic chemistry. It is presented every two years at the IUPAC International Conference on Organic Synthesis. Two Illinois faculty members have won the...

2014-05-31 - I am sad to report that our colleague Don Secrest died suddenly on Saturday, May 10, 2014, at the age of 82. Born in Akron, OH, on January 3, 1932, he attended the University of Akron where he obtained his BS degree in 1955.

2014-05-31 - The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology recently held an open competition to seed new interdisciplinary research directions in engineering and the physical, behavioral and, life sciences.

2014-05-31 - William Channing ("Bill") Smith, a Ph.D. chemist, wine distributorship owner, loving family member and part of the "Greatest Generation," died peacefully on April 29, 2014, in Wilmington, NC, with his wife of 58+ years, Barbara Verne Smith, by his side.

2014-05-31 - Kyle Dunbar (Mitchell Group) has been chosen by the 2014 Bioorganic Gordon Research Conference as the recipient of the 2014 Knowles Award. This award, sponsored annually by the American Chemical Society Division of Biological Chemistry, allows the recipient the opportunity to present a 15-minute oral presentation at the meeting on the the topic of your poster. In addition, there is a $1000 award...

2014-05-31 - Soon, making and improving medical drugs could be as easy for chemists as stacking blocks is for a child. University of Illinois chemist Martin Burke, a pioneer of a technique that constructs complex molecules from simple chemical “building blocks,” led a group that found that thousands of compounds in a class of molecules called polyenes – many of which...

2014-05-31 - I am very happy to announce that Wilfred van der Donk and John Rogers have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which was founded in 1780 and is one of the nation’s oldest scientific academies.