2009-09-23 - John Rogers, a world leader in designing "flexible electronics", has been named one of this year's 24 MacArthur Fellows. He and collaborators have developed tiny inorganic light-emitting diodes, stretchable integrated circuits and other innovative projects. Rogers will receive $500,000 over the next five years to do with as he wishes. Read the...

2009-09-09 - Researchers at the University of Illinois have designed a small molecule that blocks an aberrant pathway associated with myotonic dystrophy type 1, the most common form of muscular dystrophy. The new compound, soon to be tested in cells, binds tightly to its target, an abnormally elongated RNA that hijacks part of the normal cellular machinery and brings on symptoms of the disease. The newly...

2009-09-09 - Moore and collaborators have designed a 'first aid kit' for electrical systems to prevent circuits from failing and to increase safety and prolong the life of batteries. Their findings have been published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry, and the RSC has highlighted the article. Read the...

2009-09-04 - Eric Oldfield has been selected for the 2009 Royal Society of Chemistry's Soft Matter and Biophysical Award. This award honors "his original contributions to biophysical chemistry including his innovative applications of NMR in elucidating the structures of lipids and proteins." Read more...

2009-06-22 - The News Bureau has covered Schulten's research into toxic molecules and bird migration.

2009-06-10 - A soil microbe that uses chemical warfare to fight off competitors employs an unusual chemical pathway in the manufacture of its arsenal, researchers report, making use of an enzyme that can do what no other enzyme is known to do: break a non-activated carbon-carbon bond in a single step.

2009-05-18 - By creating a model of the active site found in a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists at the University of Illinois have described a catalyst that acts like nature's most pervasive hydrogen processor.

2009-04-20 - The state finals of the Illinois Science Olympiad will be held Saturday (April 25) at the University of Illinois. The event, which begins at 8 a.m., is part of a national competition in which middle and high school students compete in 23 events involving science concepts and engineering skills. The public is invited to attend. "About 1,100 of the top technical students from around the state are...

2009-04-15 - Two University of Illinois students have won prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year, and a third student at Illinois received honorable mention. Anthony Mazzotti, of Taylorville, Ill., and Derek Vardon, of Bolingbrook, Ill., will receive scholarships to help them finish their undergraduate studies at Illinois before attending graduate school. The Barry M....

2009-04-15 - In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois have identified and visualized the signaling pathways in protein-RNA complexes that help set the genetic code in all organisms. The genetic code allows information stored in DNA to be translated into proteins. The researchers report their findings in a paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...

2008-12-31 - Dan Palacios, a student in the Burke Group , has been selected to receive the 2008 Robert M. Scarborough Award from the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

2008-12-31 - When Donna Korol arrived at the University of Illinois in 2000, the move, she says, hit her "like a breath of fresh air." The spirit of cooperation and support among faculty struck her as unique. The assistant professor of psychology had worked at three universities prior to the U of I, but in Urbana-Champaign she found her fit. It was as if a sense of community had permeated the work space, she...

2008-12-31 - Read the San Francisco Chronicle article here.

2008-12-31 - Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching, compressing, folding and other types of extreme mechanical deformations, without a reduction in electrical performance.

2008-12-31 - John Rogers, Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, has recently had his research into nanotube mesh featured in an article in Chemistry World. Read the article here.