News

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.

2006-12-31 - Neil Kelleher will be awarded the 2006 Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist at the March National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia.

2006-12-31 - John Hartwig will receive the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia in March of 2006.

2006-12-31 - Scott Denmark wins an Excellence in Chemistry Award, sponsored by Astra-Zeneca. Professor Denmark was made a 2005 Distinguished Lecturer.

2006-12-31 - Congratulations to Joseph P. Gerdt, who was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. This national scholarship is awarded for academic merit and designated for students in science and mathematics who are planning to go on to graduate school. J. P. Gerdt is an undergraduate researcher in the Scott Silverman...

2006-12-31 - Professor Ryan C. Bailey of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently awarded the 2006 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award.

2006-12-31 - An innovative strategy of mixing lipids and nanoparticles to produce new drug and agricultural materials and delivery vehicles has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2006-12-31 - Professor Martin Gruebele's research perfecting single molecule absorption spectroscopy was mentioned in C&E News. "Absorption spectroscopy on a single molecule," Chemical and Engineering News, 1/2/2006.

2006-12-05 - Benita S. Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology, and Center for Advanced Study Professor, and John A. Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Chemistry, have been selected to jointly receive the prestigious Roy O. Greep Lecture Award for 2006 from The Endocrine Society.

2006-08-01 - Professor David Gin is slated to receive this year's Horace S. Isbell Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry at the September 2006 American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco.

2006-05-12 - A presentation by Professor Yi Lu was selected by the Materials Research Society as one of the "Top 5 Hot Talks/Cool Papers" from the 2006 MRS spring meeting.