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2013-01-02 - Wilbur J. Shenk, Jr., beloved husband of the late Jean, died in Naples, FL on Dec. 27, 2012. Born Erie, PA, 1918, graduate of University School, Exeter Academy, Princeton University, and University of Illinois, PhD in Organic Chemistry. Scientific researcher at the National Defense Research Committee. Employed at Harshaw Chemical, President of Paterson Leitch Co., director of EFCO, Inc., Trustee...

2012-12-31 - Sumit Ravindra Ashtekar (Gruebele Group) was presented the 2012 Materials Area Dissertation Award on May 8, 2012. The award, which includes a $200 check and a certificate, was presented by area head Professor Catherine Murphy. Ashtekar's talk was entitled "Visualizing Atomic Motions on Amorphous Surfaces".

2012-12-31 - Professor Yi Lu was named the 2012 winner of the Champaign County Innovation Celebration Discovery Award, sponsored by the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation. The award recognizes an individual or group from the University of Illinois' Urbana Campus who has disclosed to the University's Office of Technology Management a groundbreaking discovery with potential for significant...

2012-12-31 - Professor Prashant Jain has been named one of seven researchers at UIUC to receive an Institute for Advance Computing Applications and Technologies (IACAT) Fellowship. The one year fellowship will enable Prof. Jain to pursue collaborative projects with the researchers and computer technology experts at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).Jain will work with NCSA’s Sudhakar...

2012-12-31 - A chemically altered osteoporosis drug may be useful in fighting malaria, researchers report in a new study. Unlike similar compounds tested against many other parasitic protozoa, the drug readily crosses into the red blood cells of malaria-infected mice and kills the malaria parasite. The drug works at very low concentrations with no observed toxicity to the mouse. The study appears in the...

2012-12-31 - The Department of Mathematics, Department of Chemistry, and the School of Integrative Biology are thrilled to announce the start of the Merit Fellows Scholarship Program this upcoming academic year!

2012-12-31 - Jonathan Sweedler's research developing the content profiles of individual brain cells has been highlighted in Medical Xpress and Bioscience Technology. The research has the possibility to trace the root causes of maladies such as memory loss and chronic pain and was presented last week at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. For more information...

2012-12-31 - James Spudich (B.S., 1963)-- currently the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Disease at the Stanford University School of Medicine-- has been chosen to receive the 2012 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.

2012-12-31 - An antibody-based strategy has considerably widened the range of analytes that can be detected with personal glucose meters, according to new work by Yu Xiang and Yi Lu at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

2012-12-31 - Professor Jonathan Sweedler is part of a group of UI researchers led by Cell and Developmental Biology Professor Martha Gilette that have studied metabolism's effect on the body's circadian rhythm. Their research was recently highlighted by the UI News Bureau and in the journal Science. For the UI News Bureau...

2012-12-31 - Chemists led by Professor van der Donk has discovered a molecule very similar to the antibiotic nisin, found naturally in milk and added to food for decades to fight pathogenic bacteria. The new molecule geobacillin, is more stable than nisin, which could make it more effective. The antibiotic nisin occurs naturally in milk, a product of bacteria resident in the cow’s udder. It helps keep milk...

2012-12-31 - DNA holds the genetic code for all sorts of biological molecules and traits. But University of Illinois researchers have found that DNA’s code can similarly shape metallic structures. The team found that DNA segments can direct the shape of gold nanoparticles – tiny gold crystals that have many applications in medicine, electronics and catalysis. Led by Yi Lu, the Schenck Professor of Chemistry...

2012-12-31 - Jinwoo Cheon, Horace G. Underwood Professor of Chemistry at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and the Director of National Center for Evolutionary Nanoparticles (CEN), is the recipient of the 6th POSCO TJ Park Prize (2012), one of South Korea’s most prestigious prizes for achievement in science.

2012-12-31 - Professor Catherine Murphy and co-researchers are developing methods to coat gold nanorods in polymer layers, which would allow for targeted drug delivery including possibly the local destruction of cancer cells.

2012-12-31 - Jeffrey Moore, an alumnus of Chemistry at Illinois and Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry, has been named as Interim Head of the Department of Chemistry for the 2012-13 year. Professor Moore received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Materials Science in 1989 from the University of Illinois. Thereafter, he was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech and an assistant...