- 2011-12-31 - Professor Christina White along with members of her research group were recently featured in Chemical and Engineering News for their discovery of a small-molecule iron catalyst which has unusual reactivity previously only seen in nature.Posted:
- 2011-12-31 - Wilfred A. van der Donk, Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry, was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. Additionally, Dr. van der Donk was elected to the...Posted:
- 2011-12-31 - Richard Lampo (M.S. Chemistry, ’79), St. Joseph, Ill., recently won the R&D 100 Award, which each year selects the top 100 innovations worldwide. He was part of a team that developed an all-thermoplastic composite bridge made of waste plastic and automotive bumper scraps which...Posted:
- 2011-12-31 - Jeffrey Spencer (MS Teaching, 2011) has been chosen as a Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Fellow this year. The fellowship provides funds for professional development and classroom resources as well as serving as a professional development/ science teacher support base for people who were...Posted:
- 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...Posted:
- 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.Posted:
- 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...Posted:
- 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...Posted:
- 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.Posted:
- 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...Posted:
- 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. ...Posted:
- 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.Posted:
- 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.Posted:
- 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.Posted:
- 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.Posted: