2009-12-31
- Dr. White and group's research into a C-H oxidative macrolactonization approach reviewed by multiple sources has been reviewed and highlighted by:
C&E News at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i36/8736notw1.html
RSC Chemistry World at http://www...
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- 2009-12-31 - For every star in the universe, there are 1 billion bacteria here on earth. In the human body alone, you can find 10 times more bacterial cells than there are total human cells in the body. "The number is so big that I can't even wrap my mind around it," says LAS microbiology1 professor William Metcalf, who has long been fascinated...Posted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - In the classic fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes," Hans Christian Andersen uses the eyes of a child to challenge conventional wisdom and help others to see more clearly. In similar fashion, researchers at the University of Illinois have now revealed the naked truth about a classic bell-shaped curve used to describe the motion of a liquid as it diffuses through another material. "The new...Posted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - Roman Boulatov's new research into molecular bonds featured in Illinois' News Bureau. Read the article here: http://news.illinois.edu/news/09/0617bonds.htmlPosted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - Martin Burke has been selected to received the prestigious 2009 Amgen Young Investigators Award from Amgen, Inc. The award includes an unrestricted grant of $25,000, and the opportunity to present a lecture at an Amgen symposium on Thursday, October 8, 2009. The Amgen Young Investigator Award recognizes young chemists who are making significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry and...Posted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - Marty Burke will receive the 2009 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry award. The Excellence in Chemistry Award is presented to two talented academic researchers who have demonstrated distinct potential in synthetic, mechanistic, or bioorganic chemistry. Awardees are selected by a team of AstraZeneca senior scientists, in consultation with world-leading academic scientists. Recipients are...Posted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - Roman Boulatov's research into molecular bonds has been reviewed in multiple articles. See them here:chemie.deNanotechnology NowAZo MaterialsPosted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - Martin Burke's research into unstable boron reagents has been covered in C&E News. Read the article by Stu Borman here...Posted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a simple and inexpensive molecular technique that replaces an expensive atomic force microscope for studying what happens to small molecules when they are stretched or compressed.Posted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - Dr. Paul Braun of Chemistry has been featured in an article in C&E News regarding his research into self-healing coatings. To read more on this exciting new discovery, please see the C&E article here.Posted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - Two University of Illinois professors, Martin D. Burke, a professor of chemistry, and Maria Spies, a professor of biochemistry , have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute early career scientists.Posted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - Dr. Martin Burke has won the prestigious 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The fellowship program provides each fellow with a grant of $50,000 for a two-year period. Fellows are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them, and they are permitted to employ fellowship funds in a wide variety of ways to further their research aims. To read...Posted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - Martin Burke has been chosen for the HHMI Early Career Scientist award. To read more on this prestigious award, see the article from the UIUC News Bureau...Posted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-12-31 - Four chemistry faculty have been chosen for the inaugural class of the American Chemical Society Fellows.Posted: 2009-12-31
- 2009-10-07 - This summer, Dr. Dana Dlott gave an insightful and interesting lecture with the title "Blowing things up for fun, profit, war and medicine". To read the Telluride Daily Planet article on this talk, please see the PDF file here.Posted: 2009-10-07