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2010-11-28 - Maurice "Maury" L. Ward was 93 years old when he died November 27, 2010, at home while living with his daughter in California.

2010-06-02 - Stanley G. Smith, 78, died June 1, 2010. Smith was born on June 20, 1931, in Los Angeles, California. He was the son of Glen and Katherine Keck Smith. He was preceded in death by his sister, Lorraine Fetscher. Smith received a B.S. degree from the University of California-Berkeley in 1953, where he carried out undergraduate research with Donald Noyce on the mechanism of aromatic semicarbazone...

2010-04-06 - Richard Helmich (Suslick group ) and Tim Kucharski (Boulatov group ) have been accepted to the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany.

2010-03-01 - Martin Gruebele and his team of researchers have developed a new technique to study protein dynamics in living cells. Read the News Bureau article here.

2009-12-31 - Andrzej Wieckowski has been appointed a Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry. According to the ISE web site: "ISE Fellow is a category of membership conferred upon an individual in recognition of her/his continuing outstanding scientific and/or technical achievement within the field of electrochemistry. This honor should be limited to a small fraction of the active membership (...

2009-12-31 - Susan Odom, a postdoctoral researcher with Beckmans Autonomous Materials Systems group, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The award, from the NSFs Division of Chemistry, is for $200,000.

2009-12-31 - Andrew Young, Eric Gillis, and Nathan Werner recently were selected as the 2009 Sigma-Aldrich Graduate Student Innovation Award recipients.

2009-12-31 - Imagine a polka-dotted postage stamp that can sniff out poisonous gases or deadly toxins simply by changing colors. As reported in the Sept. 13 issue of the journal Nature Chemistry, Ken Suslick and his team at the University of Illinois have developed an artificial nose for the general detection of toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) that is simple, fast and inexpensive — and works by...

2009-12-31 - Ken Suslick has received the 2009 Student Council Mentoring Award from the Acoustical Society of America. The ASA Student Council presents this award every 18 months to recognize individuals who have served as exemplary mentors. The Mentoring Award is designed to honor exceptional ability in guiding the academic and/or professional growth of students and junior colleagues. The ASA Student...

2009-12-31 - Rogers, Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was recognized for his contributions to the science and engineering of unusual materials, patterning techniques and metrology methods for electronic and photonic systems.

2009-12-31 - The Kenneth Suslick research group has created a dispsable colorimetric sensor device that can identify 14 different sugar and artificial sweetener products. A paper describing their work was published in the journal Analytical Chemistry and highlighted in a...

2009-12-31 - Dr. John Rogers' research into the artificial 'bionic' eyes has been reviewed by ABC news. See the report at WJBF News Online.

2009-12-31 - Wilfred van der Donk was selected as the RSC 2009 Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Lecture Award winner in recognition of his contribution to the field of bioorganic chemistry, particularly related to lantibiotics and molecular processes associated with resistance to antibiotics and bacterial infections.

2009-12-31 - The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has recently informed Dr. Alexander Scheeline, a faculty member in the UIUC Department of Chemistry, that he has been selected to receive a 2009 Special Grant in the Chemical Sciences.

2009-12-31 - Scott Silverman, a chemistry professor at Illinois who has done pioneering work with DNA enzymes, hopes that "by capturing Darwinian evolution in new molecules, we might be able to better understand the basic principles of biological evolution," much of which is still somewhat mysterious at the molecular level. To read more...