2012-08-27 - Myrle C. White passed away Sunday, August 26, 2012, at Indiana University Health hospital. She was born April 11, 1920, in Superior, WI, to the late E. Gilmore and Bertha E. (Swensen) Wagner.

2012-08-27 - Jurgen Diekmann, age 77, died Sunday August 26, 2012 at home. He was born in Ludwigshafen, Germany to Heinrich and Paula Diekmann. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Kalamazoo College and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois. He started work for DuPont in 1959 in the Central Research Department and ended his career in the Electronics Department. He retired in 1992....

2012-08-08 - Robert E. Allen Dec. 27, 1919 - Aug. 7, 2012 Resident of Walnut Creek Robert E. Allen, husband of Betty M. Allen, died at 92 years of age. Bob was born and grew up in Hampton Iowa. A graduate of Grinnell College and a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois, Bob conducted research at the William S. Merrill Co and Cutter Laboratories in pre-clinical drug discovery, which included...

2012-08-01 - The Department of Chemistry is saddened to announce the passing of alumnus and longtime supporter of the department, Dr. Herschel D. Porter who passed away Tuesday, July 31, 2012. He was born in Silverton, Ohio on Aug. 9, 1924 and earned his B.S. from Wilmington College in 1944 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1947. He was a research scientist from Eli Lilly & Co. from 1947...

2012-07-12 - Donald Vidican M.D., 60, of Rockford passed away Tuesday, July 10, 2012, at his home, surrounded by his loving family, after a long battle with cancer.

2012-07-06 - Roger Lee Benson, 72, of Woodstock, passed away at home Wednesday, July 4, 2012, after an extended illness. Roger was born Dec. 30, 1939, in his grandmother's home in Huntley. He was the oldest of three sons of the late Violet and Gordon Benson. He grew up in Wonder Lake, graduated from McHenry High School in 1958, and received his undergraduate education in zoology and chemistry at the...

2012-07-01 - The Department of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer will be joining our faculty in August 2012. Hammes-Schiffer is currently a Professor of Chemistry and the Eberly Professor of Biotechnology at Penn State University.

2012-04-14 - Scientist and long-time sailor, Donald Anderson, passed away on April 13, 2012, aboard his boat, Summer Passage.

2012-03-17 - Cal Meyers, Southern Illinois University’s only Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and one of the country’s great organic chemists, passed away peacefully in Carbondale on Friday, March 16, 2012.

2012-03-01 - James Douglas McCullough Jr. of Houston, Texas passed away February 28, 2012 in a Houston hospital.

2012-02-28 - Lester John Dankert passed away on Feb. 27, 2012. Lester was born in Saginaw, on March 30, 1914.

2012-02-19 - Dr. Harry Jacob Neumiller Jr., 82, of Galesburg, Ill., died Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, at Cottage Hospital.

2012-02-16 - John C. Robinson Jr. "Robby", age 94, of Wilmington, DE, passed away on Wednesday February 15, 2012 at Methodist Country House.

2012-02-04 - Katherine Louise Junnila Sholtz ("Katie"), 80, of Golden Valley, Minnesota departed this world on February 3, 2012.

2012-02-04 - Donald Gabriel Miller, a California native, lifelong civic activist and highly respected scientist, died on February 3, 2012 in Livermore California at the age of 84 of cancer.