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2013-04-21 - John Edward Schultz, retired professor emeritus of Chemistry of Westminster College, passed away on April 20, 2013 at Boone Hospital Center after a long battle with leukemia. Born March 5, 1936 in Nowata, Oklahoma, He spent his boyhood years in Valley Falls, Kansas and moved to Fulton, Mo in 1951. Graduating from Fulton High School in 1954 with honors, he received a BA with honors from...

2013-04-19 - Students Jie An Yang, Hoa Tri Phan, Shruti Vaidya and Professor Catherine Murphy describe in a Nano Letters article their finding that cells can "vacuum" up gold nanoparticles.

2013-04-16 - Sidney Edward Schnitz, M.D. died on April 15, 2013. Sidney was born December 2, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son and only child of Benjamin and Winnie Schnitz. Sid attended elementary and high school in Chicago. He entered the United States Navy in 1944 and was honorably discharged as a Radar Technician in 1946. In 1949 he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the...

2013-04-10 - Dr. Elmer John Rauckman, Ph.D., 67, of Freeburg, Ill., born Dec. 19, 1945, in East St. Louis, Ill., died Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at his residence. Dr. Rauckman received a Bachelor of Science Degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill., and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke University, Durham, N.C. He was a professor at Duke University from 1978 to 1983. He worked with the...

2013-04-06 - Loving husband of Marilyn for 59 years, great father to Mary (Larry Eyer) & Robert (Jo Mitchell), proud grandfather of Kelsey & Kevin Eyer; Elizabeth Rose, Roberta Lynn & Virginia May Hutton.

2013-04-04 - Joseph Forman Bunn III, 91, passed away peacefully on April 3, 2013. A dedicated father, grandfather, and husband, Joe lived a full life. He was born August 17, 1921, to Joseph Forman Bunn Jr., and Helen Link Bunn in Springfield, Illinois. He proudly served in the U.S. Army during World War II in Central Europe in Company C, 8th Armed Infantry Division, known as the Liberators. He served from...

2013-04-01 - A record 34 Illinois graduate students were recently selected to receive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships beginning this fall. We are proud to announce that six of our own graduate students are among the recipients. Stephen Ammann (White Group) Brandon Burkhart (Mitchell Group) Jacob Faucheaux (Jain Group) Jessica Pearson (McCall Group) Michelle Richter (Hergenrother...

2013-03-28 - The American Chemical Society's Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry has chosen Professor Prashant K. Jain to receive the 2013 Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloid and Surfactant Science.

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...