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  • Martin Burke wins the 2009 Amgen Young Investigators Award
    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
  • Marty Burke will receive the 2009 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry award
    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
  • Boulatov Research Reviewed in Multiple Articles
    2009-12-31 - Roman Boulatov's research into molecular bonds has been reviewed in multiple articles. See them here:chemie.deNanotechnology NowAZo Materials
     Posted: 2009-12-31
  • New Way To Protect Unstable Boron Reagents
    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
  • Boulatov's new molecular force probe stretches molecules, atom by atom
    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
  • Braun's Research into Self-Healing Coatings Featured in C&E News
    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
  • Burke and Spies honored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    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
  • Martin Burke Wins Sloan Fellowship
    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
  • Martin Burke has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute early career scientist
    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
  • Scott Denmark, Deborah Leckband, Thomas Rauchfuss, and Steven Zimmerman were among the first group of scientists elected Fellows of the American Chemical Society.
    2009-12-31 - Four chemistry faculty have been chosen for the inaugural class of the American Chemical Society Fellows.
     Posted: 2009-12-31
  • Dlott Gives Town Talk on Explosions
    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
  • Rogers Selected as 2009 MacArthur Fellow
    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...
     Posted: 2009-09-23
  • Small molecule inhibits pathology associated with myotonic dystrophy type 1
    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...
     Posted: 2009-09-09
  • Moore and Collaborators Design 'First Aid Kit' for Electrical Systems
    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...
     Posted: 2009-09-09
  • Eric Oldfield wins the Soft Matter and Biophysical Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
    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...
     Posted: 2009-09-04

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