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  • Side by side head shots of Ken Suslick and Steve Sligar
    Ken Suslick, Steve Sligar elected to National Academy of Sciences
    2024-05-02 - The two chemistry emeritus professors were among a trio of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a scientist can receive.
     Posted: 2024-05-02
  • Portrait of Lisa Olshansky in an outdoor setting
    Lisa Olshansky selected a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
    2024-04-26 - The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences.
     Posted: 2024-04-26
  • Francis Alcorn stands holding the Klemperer Award certificate in a classroom with a large overhead screen in the background
    Frank Alcorn receives 2023 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Dissertation
    2024-04-26 - Alcorn is now a postdoctoral researcher in the Materials Physics Division of Sandia National Labs and recently returned to the Illinois campus to receive the Klemperer Award and present his dissertation research.
     Posted: 2024-04-26
  • Three lab instructors wearing blue coats and PPE stand side by side in a teaching lab in Chem Annex and the center instructor is dropping a blue glove in a glove recycling box.
    Chemistry labs divert more than one ton of PPE from waste stream
    2024-04-24 - Through the Kimberly-Clark Right Cycle Program, teaching labs and some research labs in the Department of Chemistry diverted 1.03 tons or 2,278 pounds of PPE waste in 2023, earning the department a 2024 Greenovation Award.
     Posted: 2024-04-24
  • Head shot of Christy Landes on a dark background
    Christy F. Landes elected 2023 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
    2024-04-18 - The AAAS selected Prof. Landes “for the development of next-generation tools and models to image and understand dynamics governing separations at soft interfaces at the single analyte limit.”
     Posted: 2024-04-18
  • Illustration showing a black spherical shape with black and red dots on a deep space looking background
    Molecules as formidable as black holes at scrambling quantum information
    2024-04-10 - In a collaboration between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Rice University, a team of researchers has combined mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and demonstrated that quantum information scrambling takes place in chemical reactions and can nearly reach the same quantum mechanical limit as it does in black holes.
     Posted: 2024-04-10
  • Side by side headshots of Kristin Martin and Jason Wu.
    Illinois chemistry students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
    2024-04-09 - Kristin Martin and Jason Wu are among the thousands of students nationwide to be awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation fellowships in the highly competitive program.
     Posted: 2024-04-09
  • Borchart and daughter Kate Wallace
    Endowed gift in memory of alum Dr. Eugene Borchart commemorates his generosity
    2024-04-05 - The Dr. Eugene Kent Borchart Memorial Award in Chemistry Fund recognizes outstanding graduating seniors in chemistry and memorializes Illinois chemistry alum Dr. Borchart whose generosity shaped his legacy.
     Posted: 2024-04-05
  • Head shot of Catherine Murphy
    Catherine Murphy part of Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
    2024-03-26 - The Interim Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, chemistry Prof. Catherine Murphy was recently appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ad hoc committee to conduct a quadrennial review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative.
     Posted: 2024-03-26
  • Xiaolin Liu stands holding a large poster of the winning Rose in a Flask image.
    Xiaolin Liu captures the beauty and artistry in chemistry
    2024-03-26 - A postdoctoral researcher in chemistry Prof. Jeffrey Moore's group, Xiaolin Liu has captured several photos during her work in the lab that have won the School of Chemical Sciences Research Image Challenge and been featured in C&EN magazine.
     Posted: 2024-03-26
  • Portrait of Sohang Kundu standing on a bridge over a waterway with a cityscape background
    Sohang Kundu (PhD, '23) wins national dissertation award from American Physical Society
    2024-03-20 - An Illinois chemistry alum who was advised by Prof. Nancy Makri, Sohang Kundu's dissertation, “Exciton-vibration Dynamics Using Real-Time Path Integral Methods,” was awarded the Justin Jankunas Doctoral Dissertation Award by the American Physical Society.
     Posted: 2024-03-20
  • Head shot of Beyza Bulutoglu next to the event poster.
    Chemistry students receive Stoesser Lecture Poster Session Awards
    2024-03-14 - Three graduate students in the Department of Chemistr received Stoesser Lecture Poster Session Awards. Suritra Bandyopadhyay, a PhD student in Prof. Jeff Chan’s lab, received the Top Presentation Award.  And PhD students Amy Wahlmeier and Citlali Gutierrez from Prof. Liviu Mirica’s lab were runners up.
     Posted: 2024-03-14
  • Head shot of Allen Hartford on a white background
    Alum Allen Hartford providing students with pivotal research experience
    2024-03-05 - After a 30-year career in science, culminating in upper management at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Allen Hartford (PhD, '71) has made a gift to Illinois chemistry that is providing undergraduate research opportunities to help students engage with chemistry at a deeper level.
     Posted: 2024-03-05
  • Jonathan Sweedler stands next to Fan Lam in a hallway on the Illinois campus.
    Painting a molecular portrait of the brain with mass spectrometry and deep learning
    2024-03-05 - Beckman researchers led by bioengineering Prof. Fan Lam, chemistry Prof. Jonathan Sweedler, and Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow Richard Xie used a biochemical imaging framework integrated with deep learning to create 3D molecular maps with cell specificity to better understand how the brain functions in health and disease.
     Posted: 2024-03-05
  • Jeff Chan and Suritra Bandyopadhyay stand side by side in a lab with shelves lab supplies in background
    Unlocking Toxicity: Researchers Develop Therapeutic to Reduce Cancer Treatment Side Effects
    2024-03-04 - Chemistry Prof. Jeff Chan is a led a team in a Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) project demonstrating the development of an activatable cancer therapeutic that can help eliminate the side effects of traditional chemotherapies.
     Posted: 2024-03-04

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