2007-12-31 - Professor M. Christina White of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently awarded the 2007 Eli Lilly Grantee Award. The award comes with a two-year unrestricted research grant in the amount of $100,000. As part of the award, White will give a lecture at the 14th biennial Lilly Grantee Symposium to be held in Indianapolis in early March of 2010.

2007-12-31 - One of the fundamental challenges facing organic synthesis in the 21st century is the need to significantly increase the efficiency with which carbon frameworks can be constructed and functionalized.

2007-12-31 - Dr. M. Christina White and Mark Chen's recent research paper regarding aliphatic C-H oxidation has been selected as a top ten breakthrough of the year in science by Science Magazine.

2007-12-31 - Christina White and grad student Kenneth J. Fraunhoffer have discovered a way to catalytically convert C-H directly to C-N. Their discoveries are highlighted in a news article in C&E News.

2007-12-31 - In a paper published online this month in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, researchers report that they have developed a way to determine the function of some of the hundreds of thousands of proteins for which amino acid sequence data are available, but whose structure and function remain unknown.

2007-12-31 - Global warming isn’t the only heat scientists are feeling. Another area in which heat flow is becoming crucial is the field of molecular electronics, where long-chain molecules attached to tiny electrodes are used to transport and switch electrons.

2007-12-31 - By the time someone is diagnosed with the deadly brain cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme, it is typically too late for treatment. Patients are usually dead within 12 months of the diagnosis. That's why LAS chemistry professor Ryan Bailey has initiated an ambitious effort to detect this and other types of cancers much earlier, when treatment is significantly more effective. To boost the...

2007-12-31 - Ryan C. Bailey, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois, has been named a recipient of the 2007 National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award.

2007-12-31 - Eleven faculty members of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

2007-10-31 - With more top ten rankings, it's easy to see why Chemistry at UIUC is leading the nation in research and education. With Analytical Chemistry ranked third in the nation, and Inorganic, Organic, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry each ranking between 6th and 8th in their respective areas, Chemistry at UIUC continues to be recognized as one of the premiere Chemistry programs in the United States.

2007-09-20 - Professor Ralph Nuzzo of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently selected as a 2007 Fellow of AVS. Nuzzo received the award in Seattle on October 17, 2007 at the AVS Awards Assembly held during the AVS 54th International Symposium. The award citation reads: "For dis-covery, characterization, and development of self-assembled monolayers, materials that have...

2007-08-01 - On August 8, 2007, the National Science Board (NSB) authorized the National Science Foundation (NSF) to award the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign a grant totaling $208 million, to be used over a 4.5 year period to develop the world's most powerful "leadership-class" supercomputer.

2007-06-19 - Martin Burke's group was recently highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News June 18, 2007 issue. Click here to read more.

2007-02-20 - An efficient way to make small molecules by repeatedly using just one coupling reaction to clip together pre-prepared chemical fragments is going commercial.

2006-12-31 - Professor Andrzej Wieckowski of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently awarded the 2006 Gold Medal of the International Society of Electrochemistry.