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2013-03-28 - Dr. Jacob Alif Seaton died Wednesday, March 27, 2013. He was born in Wellington, Kan., on Jan. 2, 1931, to Martin Kenner and Golda Mae (Thompson) Seaton. His parents, sisters Isabel Johnston and Lois Mae Hunt, and brothers Martin Seaton and Charles Seaton preceded him in death. His wife, Olis Darlene (Pearce) Seaton; sons, William Kenner and Sean Stephen, and daughter, Laura Anne Turner, survive...

2013-03-27 - The American Chemical Society announces Professor Martin D. Burke will deliver the second Kavli Foundation Emerging Leaders in Chemistry Lecture at the Fall 2013 National American Chemical Society Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.

2013-03-21 - Robert Blanchard Fischer passed away March 20, 2013. He was born October 24, 1920, to Charles Albert Fischer and Matilda Nylen Fischer in Hartford, Connecticut. Following the death of his father in 1922, he moved with his mother and two brothers to Wheaton, Illinois. He attended Wheaton College (BS in Chemistry in 1942) and the University of Illinois (PhD in Analytical Chemistry and Electrical...

2013-03-18 - Led by Professor Scott Silverman, Illinois chemists have used DNA to do a protein’s job, creating opportunities for DNA to find work in more areas of biology, chemistry and medicine than ever before.

2013-03-17 - Marvin F. Reich (Ph.D. 1978) passed away March 16, 2013 after a long struggle with Parkinson's Disease. He was born December 1947 in New York, NY, and graduated with a B.S. in chemistry from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1968.

2013-03-15 - Randall, Dr. William J. 74 Aug. 13, 1938 - March 14, 2013 Dr. William J. Randall, Lewis and Clark College Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, died in his home Thursday, March 14. Bill was a graduate of Willamette University, where he majored in chemistry and earned his baccalaureate degree in 1960. He went on to earn his master's (1963) and Ph.D. (1969) at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana....

2013-03-11 - Hidden in a tiny tile of interwoven DNA is a message. The message is simple, but decoding it unlocks the secret of dynamic nanoscale assembly. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have devised a dynamic and reversible way to assemble nanoscale structures and used it to encrypt a Morse code message. Led by Yi Lu, the Schenck Professor of Chemistry...

2013-03-08 - Walter B. Trapp, Ph.D., 89, died Thursday, March 7, 2013, in Asheville, NC He was born in Peoria, IL, July 22, 1923, the son of Clarence H. and Julia Erler Trapp. He attended St. Bernard's Elementary School and E. Peoria High School.

2013-03-08 - Moore group member Michael Evans is teaching a chemistry massive online open course (MOOC) and offered some thoughts on the value of these courses in a recent St. Louis Post-dispatch article titled "Flipped classrooms: homework in class, online lectures at home."

2013-03-07 - Raymond P. Ratay, 77, of Miamisburg, OH, passed away Wednesday, March 6, 2013, at Cleveland Clinic. He was born Sept. 8, 1935, in East St. Louis, IL, to the late Andrew and Josephine, nee Leszkowicz, Ratay.

2013-02-28 - Dr. Jack Leland Riudavets Williams Ph.D. of Namao, Alberta died February 27th at the age of 89 years at the Youville Home in St Albert, Alberta. Dr. Williams was born in Edmonton on October 25, 1923 to cattle commission agent Leland "Lee" Stanford Williams (Principal of Weiller & Williams Co. Ltd.) and Marion Letitia Williams nee Peacock. He graduated, Honours Chemistry, University of...

2013-02-28 - Professor Gruebele has been chosen to be featured in a faculty profile in the upcoming textbook Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, & Kinetics by Andrew Cooksy. The profile, which will be published in 2014, will highlight Professor Gruebele’s biographical details as well as his many contributions to the field.

2013-02-27 - Professor Hergenrother, Karen Morrison (graduate student), and coworkers at MIT have synthesized and tested several dozen compounds that may hold promise as potential cancer drugs. In the new study, recently published online in the journal Chemical Science, the researchers tested 60 compounds against two different human cancer cell lines -- cervical cancer and lymphoma. Then they chose...

2013-02-26 - Sheldon Davidson, 85 years young, passed away on February 25, 2013. "Shelly" was born in Chicago, Illinois to immigrant parents Anna Swerdlove Davidson and William Jack Davidson. Dr. Davidson obtained his bachelor's degree in Biological Chemistry from the University of Illinois. His master's degree thesis was entitled "Factors Affecting Vitamin A in the Blood." He also was an Instructor in...

2013-02-22 - The Protein Society announces Professor Wilfred van der Donk as the 2013 Emil Thomas Kaiser Award recipient. The Emil Thomas Kaiser Award, sponsored in 2013 by a Society member who wished to remain anonymous, recognizes a recent, highly significant contribution to the application of chemistry in the study of proteins. Dr. Wilfred van der Donk (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) is the...