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2024-07-12 - The Chan Zuckerburg Biohub Chicago has announced its first cohort of investigators, 48 innovative scientists and engineers hailing from three partner universities, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, and University of Chicago. The cohort includes several Illinois chemistry researchers, Catherine J. Murphy, Mei Shen, and Jonathan Sweedler as well as...

2024-07-08 - A Chemistry World feature about the chemistry of whisky, including the reactions of its ageing to testing for fakes, mentions Illinois chemistry Prof. Kenneth S. Suslick, Marvin T. Schmidt Research Professor of Chemistry, whose ‘optoelectronic nose’ technology was expanded upon and developed for identifying liquors.

2024-07-08 - Using nano-sized gold particles that are great light absorbers, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and their collaborators have discovered a faster way to transfer and boost charge to a semi-conductor, which could lead to more efficient methods of converting light energy into electrical or chemical energy.

2024-06-30 - The School of Chemical Sciences (SCS) and the Department of Chemistry have recognized a group of faculty members and graduate students for their commitment to excellence in the classroom in the 2023-24 academic year.Two chemistry faculty members and four graduate students in chemistry received the annual SCS awards for excellence in teaching and five additional chemistry graduate students...

2024-06-28 - The American Chemical Society has awarded Rebecca Ulrich of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the 15th Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2024–2026. Ulrich will conduct her fellowship studies with Deborah Hung of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA, starting in September. Ulrich is a PhD student advised by Prof. Paul...

2024-06-17 - Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, MIT, and Duke collaborate on the development of a simple intuitive tool that can predict the mechanochemical reactivity of C-C bonds in designing mechanophores.

2024-06-05 - As the head of the Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Daniel Heller (PhD, '10) has rapidly become one of the preeminent young scientists in cancer science, but after college he became a middle school science teacher, which eventually led him to discover a passion for research.

2024-06-05 - Priti Kharel, a sixth-year graduate student in the lab of Pinshane Huang, has been awarded the Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship, and Prakriti Das, a fifth-year graduate student in the lab of Scott Silverman, has been awarded the Dr. Sandra Murawski Award for Mentoring Excellence.

2024-05-29 - A research team led by chemistry Prof. Paul Hergenrother and former PhD student Kristen Muñoz (PhD, '23) has developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse gut.

2024-05-23 - A team from the Department of Chemistry took first place among 12 teams in a cross-campus computational science competition at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

2024-05-21 - Chemistry professor Martin Gruebele and composer and software developer Carla Scaletti used sound to investigate hydrogen-bond dynamics during the protein-folding process.

2024-05-17 - Two PhD graduates, Qi Hua and Falon Kalutantirige, were awarded the 2024 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis in the Department of Chemistry.

2024-05-16 - Two PhD graduates in the Department of Chemistry — Chi-Herng "Daniel" Hu and Joe Lastowski — were awarded the 2024 Theron Standish Piper Award for outstanding thesis work in inorganic chemistry.

2024-05-13 - Six undergraduate students and two graduate students were honored during the May 12, 2024, Convocation ceremony with various awards, recognizing outstanding achievement.