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2014-05-31 - Hirata group alumnus Dr. Olaseni Sode (PhD, 2012) has been named one of a highly selective group of recipients of the prestigious Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences.

2014-05-31 - When Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Hyunjoon Kong, graduate student Cartney Smith, and colleagues set out to improve MR imaging (MRI), they turned current contrast agent technology on its head—or rather, they turned it inside out.

2014-05-31 - Looking at a smooth sheet of plastic in one University of Illinois laboratory, no one would guess that an impact had recently blasted a hole through it. Illinois researchers have developed materials that not only heal, but regenerate. Until now, self-repairing materials could only bond tiny...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,...

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...

2014-04-05 - Alumnus and longtime friend of the Department of Chemistry Prof. Sheldon Shore passed away unexpectedly on April 4, 2014.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.