News

2006-03-01 - John Rogers' research was selected as an emerging technology by the MIT Technology Review. Stretchable Silicon: By teaching silicon new tricks, John Rogers is reinventing the way we use electronics," MIT Technology Review, March/April 2006.

2006-02-24 - Scott Denmark will be awarded the Yamada-Koga Prize on Oct. 27 at the 16th Symposium on Optically Active Compounds in Tokyo.

2006-01-04 - Joseph P. Gerdt, an undergraduate researcher with Scott Silverman, was awarded a $1,000 Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research. Sigma Xi is an international honor society of science and engineering research.

2006-01-03 - Professor Yi Lu is again in the news with another article about his self correcting nanomaterial assembly process. "Proofreading Nanoparticle Assemblies," Chemical & Engineering News, 12/19/2005.

2005-12-31 - Professor Yi Lu's research was discussed in the Oct. 10th issue of The Scientist, "Give your protein a tune-up." and also by the UIUC News Bureau, "Proofreading and error-correction in nanomaterials inspired by nature,"10/18/05.

2005-12-31 - Chen Zhang and Kenneth S. Suslick have developed a sensor that uses an array of chemically sensitive dyes to identify organic compounds dissolved in water. "Organic chemistry: Dotty solutions," Nature, 8/11/2005. "...

2005-12-31 - "Seeking the D Isomer: Sensitive, downscaled techniques locate D-amino acids in single neurons and subcellular sites," is the Sept. 26th C & E News article describing the research of Jonathan Sweedler.

2005-12-31 - John Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering at Illinois, and his team used molds derived from carbon nanotubes have approached the ultimate resolution - defined by molecular scale dimensions - in a widely used polymer nanoimprinting technique.

2005-12-31 - Professor of Biochemistry (Chemistry affliate), Stephen Sligar has been selected to receive a research award from the Human Frontiers Science Program .

2005-12-31 - Professor Nuzzo has been named a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation, an organization based in Britain. Among its approximately 50 US members are Paul Lauterbur, Ron Breslow, Malcolm Chisholm, John Goodenough, Bruce Merrifield, Kary Mullis, Dick Zare, and Howard Zimmerman.

2005-12-31 - Theoretical chemist, Todd Martínez has known since Wednesday, September 14 that he is one of 25 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellows for 2005, but the foundation just announced awardees today. The MacArthur Fellowship is a "no strings attached" award in support of people, not projects. Each fellowship comes with a stipend of $500,000 to the recipient, paid out in equal quarterly...

2005-12-31 - On June 13, 2005, two UIUC researchers, Neil Kelleher and ChengXiang Zhai (Computer Science) were named recipients of the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers.

2005-12-31 - A powerful new tool for probing molecular structure on surfaces has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Single molecule absorption spectroscopy can enhance molecular analysis, surface manipulation and studies of molecular energy and reactivity at the atomic level.

2005-12-31 - Every year the MIT Technology Reviews magazine publishes a list of researchers under 35 from all disciplines, universities, corporations, or startups that they consider the top technology innovators. Professor Paul Hergenrother joins this select group of researchers cited for their innovative and potentially world altering research. Their description of his work is below: Paul Hergenrother is a...

2005-12-31 - The Winter 2005 Research Corporation Newsletter contains an article discussing the reasons for the large number of Cottrell Scholars at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (pdf of article)