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2009-12-31 - John Hartwig was selected to receive the prestigious 2009/2010 Joseph Chatt Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry for his highly original research in organometallic catalysis.

2009-12-31 - Dr. John Hartwig of Chemistry has just won the 2009 Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award for his work in the "Development of New Practical Catalytic Reactions Including Efficient C-H Bond Activation and Coupling Reactions".

2009-12-31 - Chemistry Commencement will be held on Sunday, May 17th this year. For more information on Chemistry Commencement, please see the Chemistry Commencement website.

2009-12-31 - Scott Denmark was awarded the Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods at the annual American Chemical Society meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. They cited "his insightful and scholarly analysis of reaction mechanisms that have inspired his creative approach and rigorous development of novel synthetic transformations of broad utility".

2009-12-31 - Dr. White and group's research into a C-H oxidative macrolactonization approach reviewed by multiple sources has been reviewed and highlighted by: C&E News at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i36/8736notw1.html RSC Chemistry World at http://www...

2009-12-31 - For every star in the universe, there are 1 billion bacteria here on earth. In the human body alone, you can find 10 times more bacterial cells than there are total human cells in the body. "The number is so big that I can't even wrap my mind around it," says LAS microbiology1 professor William Metcalf, who has long been fascinated...

2009-12-31 - In the classic fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes," Hans Christian Andersen uses the eyes of a child to challenge conventional wisdom and help others to see more clearly. In similar fashion, researchers at the University of Illinois have now revealed the naked truth about a classic bell-shaped curve used to describe the motion of a liquid as it diffuses through another material. "The new...

2009-12-31 - Roman Boulatov's new research into molecular bonds featured in Illinois' News Bureau. Read the article here: http://news.illinois.edu/news/09/0617bonds.html

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...

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...

2009-12-31 - Roman Boulatov's research into molecular bonds has been reviewed in multiple articles. See them here:chemie.deNanotechnology NowAZo Materials

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...

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.

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.

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.