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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 - Rodriguez-Lopez member Zach Barton has been named a winner of the highly prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship.

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 - 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 - 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...

2014-03-31 - 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...

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...

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...

2014-03-01 - Jesse A. Miller, Jr., Director of Laboratory Facilities for the Department of Chemistry, was named a recipient of the 2013-14 Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement. The award is administered by the Office of the Chancellor and honors extraordinary contributions of faculty, staff,...

2014-01-31 - Professor So Hirata has been named one of this campus’s Blue Waters Professors. The position confers a significant commitment of Blue Waters computing resources, up to 240,000 node hours, with a value of over $200,000 per year. In the call for nominations...

2013-12-31 - Jie An Yang won the 2013 Dissertation Award in Materials Chemistry. He presented his award seminar on April 18, 2013. His advisor is Catherine J. Murphy.

2013-12-31 - Associate Professor of Chemistry Marty Burke was chosen as the 2013 Kavli Lecturer for the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Indianapolis and his speech, which highlighted the wide variety of potential uses of small molecules, was featured in U.S. News and World Report.

2013-12-31 - Professor of Chemistry and Swanlund Professor of Materials Science and Engineering John A. Rogers has led researchers in developing technology which has been getting wide-ranging press attention, including a feature article in The New Yorker called "The Body Electric".