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2012-10-28 - Clifford Wayne Childers was born September 26, 1924 in Carterville, Illinois, to Lula and Paul Childers and passed away on October 27, 2012 at the age of eighty-eight. Upon graduating from high school at the age of 16 Wayne attended Southern Illinois University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree (1947). Wayne continued his education at ColumbiaUniversity in New York City where he earned a...

2012-10-25 - University of Illinois chemistry professor Douglas Mitchell has been named a Packard Fellow in science and engineering. He is among 16 early career researchers honored by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation in 2012 for outstanding creative research. Blending chemistry...

2012-10-24 - William Donald Foglesong Jr. died at home with his wife at his side on October 23, 2012 at the age of 70.   Bill was born and raised in Mason WV where he graduated from Wahama High School. After graduating from Marshall University in 1963, he received a Ph.D. Degree in 1968 in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois, where he met and married his wife Nina during their second year...

2012-10-15 - Wimer, David 86, of Winthrop Harbor, passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 13, 2012 at his home surrounded by his family. He was born July 20, 1926 in Champaign, Illinois to David Cleveland and Lillian McGee Wimer. He attended school in Urbana, IL and graduated from Urbana High School in 1944. He served in the United States Army Infantry and Transportation Corps from 1944-1946. Upon his...

2012-10-13 - Robert William Green Died on October 12, 2012, a week before his 80th birthday, after years of declining health and a hospitalization for pneumonia. Bob was born on October 20, 1932 in Los Angeles, California to Elizabeth and Lester Green. He showed exceptional talent in music from an early age and played many instruments, including trombone, tuba, baritone, piano, and recorder. He attended...

2012-10-05 - The Women Chemists Committee (WCC) of the American Chemical Society is pleased to announce that Ms. Kristin Nuzzio is one of 9 recipients nationally of the Eli Lilly Travel Award. This award provides funding for female undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral fellows to travel to a national meeting and present their research. This is a highly competitive award and is a testament to Ms. Nuzzio's...

2012-10-05 - Walter Smith, Jr., known as "Tom," was born in 1922 in Havana, IL, where he enjoyed fishing and boating on the Illinois River. He attended the University of Illinois and received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Indiana University in 1945.

2012-10-05 - On October 6, 2012, Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a Fellow of the AAAS, he joins the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Professor Hammes-Schiffer joined the Department of Chemistry in August 2012 after serving as Professor of Chemistry and the Eberly Professor of Biotechnology at Penn State University....

2012-10-02 - John D. McCollum, 83, a retired Amoco Oil chemist, died in Naperville, IL in September.  John was born in Evanston, IL in 1929.  He graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949, and he went on to earn A.M and Ph.D. degrees in organic chemistry under P.D. Bartlett at Harvard.  He was hired into the Standard Oil Company in 1953 as a Project...

2012-09-27 - Elodie Emelda Diodene Fleming Born January 20, 1927 in Gretna, Louisiana and passed away on September 26, 2012 She was the Devoted wife of the late Calvin A. Fleming, II, and Beloved mother of her only child, Calvin, III.

2012-09-09 - Dr. Alfred Raymond Gould, long-time resident and icon of West Feliciana Parish, died in his sleep on Saturday, September 08, 2012, in Sugar Land, Texas, of Alzheimer's disease. He was 84. Doc, as he was known to all, was a gifted healer, who practiced medicine his own way - slowly and thoroughly. He knew his patients, their families, and their medical histories well, and went far beyond the...

2012-08-27 - Myrle C. White passed away Sunday, August 26, 2012, at Indiana University Health hospital. She was born April 11, 1920, in Superior, WI, to the late E. Gilmore and Bertha E. (Swensen) Wagner.

2012-08-27 - Jurgen Diekmann, age 77, died Sunday August 26, 2012 at home. He was born in Ludwigshafen, Germany to Heinrich and Paula Diekmann. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Kalamazoo College and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois. He started work for DuPont in 1959 in the Central Research Department and ended his career in the Electronics Department. He retired in 1992....

2012-08-08 - Robert E. Allen Dec. 27, 1919 - Aug. 7, 2012 Resident of Walnut Creek Robert E. Allen, husband of Betty M. Allen, died at 92 years of age. Bob was born and grew up in Hampton Iowa. A graduate of Grinnell College and a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois, Bob conducted research at the William S. Merrill Co and Cutter Laboratories in pre-clinical drug discovery, which included...

2012-08-01 - The Department of Chemistry is saddened to announce the passing of alumnus and longtime supporter of the department, Dr. Herschel D. Porter who passed away Tuesday, July 31, 2012. He was born in Silverton, Ohio on Aug. 9, 1924 and earned his B.S. from Wilmington College in 1944 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1947. He was a research scientist from Eli Lilly & Co. from 1947...