- 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.Posted:
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...Posted:- 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.Posted:
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.Posted:
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...Posted:- 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...Posted:
2013-03-08 - Walter B. Trapp, Ph.D., 89, died Thursday, March 7, 2013, in Asheville, NC He was born in Peoria, IL, July 22, 1923, the son of Clarence H. and Julia Erler Trapp. He attended St. Bernard's Elementary School and E. Peoria High School.Posted:- 2013-03-08 - Moore group member Michael Evans is teaching a chemistry massive online open course (MOOC) and offered some thoughts on the value of these courses in a recent St. Louis Post-dispatch article titled "Flipped classrooms: homework in class, online lectures at home."Posted:
2013-03-07 - Raymond P. Ratay, 77, of Miamisburg, OH, passed away Wednesday, March 6, 2013, at Cleveland Clinic. He was born Sept. 8, 1935, in East St. Louis, IL, to the late Andrew and Josephine, nee Leszkowicz, Ratay.Posted:
2013-02-28 - Dr. Jack Leland Riudavets Williams Ph.D. of Namao, Alberta died February 27th at the age of 89 years at the Youville Home in St Albert, Alberta. Dr. Williams was born in Edmonton on October 25, 1923 to cattle commission agent Leland "Lee" Stanford Williams (Principal of Weiller & Williams Co....Posted:- 2013-02-28 - Professor Gruebele has been chosen to be featured in a faculty profile in the upcoming textbook Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, & Kinetics by Andrew Cooksy. The profile, which will be published in 2014, will highlight Professor Gruebele’s biographical details as well as his many...Posted:
- 2013-02-27 - Professor Hergenrother, Karen Morrison (graduate student), and coworkers at MIT have synthesized and tested several dozen compounds that may hold promise as potential cancer drugs. In the new study, recently published online in the journal Chemical Science, the researchers tested 60...Posted:
2013-02-26 - Sheldon Davidson, 85 years young, passed away on February 25, 2013. "Shelly" was born in Chicago, Illinois to immigrant parents Anna Swerdlove Davidson and William Jack Davidson. Dr. Davidson obtained his bachelor's degree in Biological Chemistry from the University of Illinois. His master's...Posted:- 2013-02-22 - The Protein Society announces Professor Wilfred van der Donk as the 2013 Emil Thomas Kaiser Award recipient. The Emil Thomas Kaiser Award, sponsored in 2013 by a Society member who wished to remain anonymous, recognizes a recent, highly significant contribution to the application of chemistry in...Posted:
- 2013-01-31 - Professor Wilfred van der Donk will present the 2013 ACS Chemical Biology Lecture at the Spring 2013 ACS National Meeting in recognition of his contributions to understanding enzyme reaction mechanisms.Posted: