- 2014-05-31 - One of the most-quoted reasons for pursuing undergraduate research are the strong bonds that the experience creates-- between the university and the student, between students, and between faculty and students.Posted:
- 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.Posted:
2014-05-31 - Professor Thomas B. Rauchfuss was awarded the Ronald Nyholm Prize, given biennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) for outstanding contributions to inorganic chemistry.Posted:- 2014-05-31 - Professor Wilfred van der Donk was the third recipient of the Bioorganic Chemistry Award, given biennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) to recognise excellence in any area of bioorganic chemistry.Posted:
2014-04-24 - Don DeCoste has been honored with two campus teaching awards this year. First, he received a LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff Award and month later a Provost's Excellence in Undergradute Teaching Award. Exerpt from an email sent by Department Head,...Posted:
2014-04-08 - Robert R. Chambers passed away peacefully at home in Studio City, CA surrounded by his family on April 7, 2014. In his 90 years, Bob combined a sunny Western-plains optimism with a boundless curiosity, keen intelligence and energetic nature to fashion a life of high achievement across a wide range...Posted:
2014-04-05 - Alumnus and longtime friend of the Department of Chemistry Prof. Sheldon Shore passed away unexpectedly on April 4, 2014.Posted:- 2014-04-01 - A drug under clinical trials to treat tuberculosis could be the basis for a class of broad-spectrum drugs that act against various bacteria, fungal infections and parasites, yet evade resistance, according to a study by University of Illinois chemists and collaborators.Posted:
- 2014-04-01 - Mitchell Group member Patricia Blair has been named one of ten recipients of the American Chemical Society's Women Chemist Committee's Eli Lilly / WCC Travel Grant Award, which will facilitate travel to the Fall 2014 American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.Posted:
- 2014-04-01 - Scientists have solved a decades-old medical mystery – and in the process have found a potentially less toxic way to fight invasive fungal infections, which kill about 1.5 million people a year. The researchers say they now understand the mechanism of action of amphotericin, an antifungal drug that...Posted:
- 2014-04-01 - Internal damage in fiber-reinforced composites, materials used in structures of modern airplanes and automobiles, is difficult to detect and nearly impossible to repair by conventional methods. A small, internal crack can quickly develop into irreversible damage from delamination, a process in...Posted:
- 2014-04-01 - Rodriguez-Lopez member Zach Barton has been named a winner of the highly prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship.Posted:
- 2014-03-31 - Prashant Jain was named a 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry. The Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving nominations of the very best scientists of the generation from the United...Posted:
2014-03-01 - Illinois chemistry alumna Sara Skrabalak received the 2014 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry at the March ACS meeting. Her research involves the creation of multi-functional materials useful in catalysis, biotechnology, energy, and environmental remediation...Posted:- 2014-03-01 - Professor Scott E. Denmark was awarded the 2014 Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry from the American Chemical Society at the ACS Meeting in Dallas, March, 2014. This award, which has been bestowed since 1962 (Henry Gilman) was given in recognition of Prof. Denmark's creative...Posted: