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2011-12-31 - James Lisy, Professor of Chemistry, has been named the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award. The award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.

2011-12-31 - Dr. John Rogers, Professor of Chemistry and Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the NAE is one of the highest professional honors an engineer can garner.

2011-12-31 - Dr. Scott Silverman has been chosen to receive the Campus Award for Excellence in Guiding Undergraduate Research. This is a highly competitive teaching award with several evaluation criteria, including having exhibited sustained activity in involving and guiding undergraduate students in research projects and having a positive impact on student scholarship or intellectual development. For a...

2011-12-31 - Professor Eric Oldfield will be awarded to the 2011 Avanti Award in Lipids for his pioneering research using NMR methods to investigate lipid membrane structure and for his work in drug discovery, targeting lipid biosynthesis. The award is given annually by the Biophysical Scoiety to an investigator that has made "outstanding contributions to our understanding of lipid biosynthetics."

2011-12-31 - Researchers including Professor Chad Rienstra are the first to describe in atomic detail a chemical interaction that is vital to blood clotting-- an interaction that has baffled scientists for decades.

2011-12-31 - Chemistry Affiliate John Rogers has won the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Prize. The annual awards recognizes outstanding innovation and creativity. Rogers will accept the award at this week's EurekaFest at MIT. The son of a physicist and a poet, Rogers earned his doctorate in physical chemistry from MIT in 1995. Since joining the Illinois faculty in January 2003, he has distinguished himself as a...

2011-12-31 - Congratulations to Greg Scott, Gruebele group, who received the 2011 Dissertation Award in Materials Chemistry.  Professor Cathy Murphy, Materials Area Head, is shown below presenting Greg with the award on April 28, 2011.        

2011-12-31 - Taking their cue from biological circulatory systems, University of Illinois researchers have developed vascularized structural composites, creating materials that are lightweight and strong with potential for self-healing, self-cooling, metamaterials and more.

2011-12-31 - Dr. Marinda P. Wu (Ph.D. '76, Drago)has been chosen to be President of the The American Chemical Society. The founder and president of Science is Fun! in Orinda, Calif., Dr. Wu will serve ACS president-elect for 2012.

2011-12-31 - Researchers have built a computer model of the crowded interior of a bacterial cell that – in a test of its response to sugar in its environment – accurately simulates the behavior of living cells.

2011-12-31 - Professor Yi Lu, along with postdoctoral researcher Yu Xiang, have found that glucose meters, when coupled with a class of molecular sensors called functional DNA sensors, can be used to monitor other molecules in blood, water, or food.

2011-12-31 - Researchers led by Professor Martin Gruebele have used high-resolution imaging technology to determine that amorphous silicon is a glass, until hydrogren is added. The group recently published its results in the journal Physical Review Letters. Amorphous silicon (a-Si) is a semiconductor popular for many device applications because it is inexpensive and can be created...

2011-12-31 - Researchers, led by Chemistry Department affiliate Jianjun Cheng, have developed a simple method of making short protein chains with spiral structures that can also dissolve in water, two desirable traits not often found together.

2011-12-31 - U.S. researchers have applied synthetic organic chemistry to solve a mystery that has baffled scientists for more than 50 years: how the powerful, naturally occurring antifungal compound amphotericin B interacts with sterols in cell membranes.

2011-12-31 - Ian Dailey (Burke Group) and Daniel Robbins (Hartwig Group) were named recipients of the Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award for research accomplishments in the field of organic chemistry.