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2005-12-31 - The Bomem-Michelson award is dedicated to the memory of Professor A. E. Michelson, developer of the Michelson interferometer.

2005-12-31 - Michael Arnold has been selected as one of 10 recipients of a $35,000 Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.

2005-12-31 - Peter Beak named a Center for Advanced Studies Professor.

2005-12-31 - New faculty member, Martin Burke, has been awarded a 2005 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award. The award is highly competitive and provides an unrestricted research grant of $50,000.

2005-12-31 - New faculty member, Martin Burke, has been awarded a 2005 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award. The award is highly competitive and provides an unrestricted research grant of $50,000. The award will help to fund his research on the study and synthesis of amphotericin B, a prototypical small molecule-...

2005-12-21 - The flexible electronics research of Professor John Rogers was detailed in a St. Louis Post Dispatch article. He and his colleagues had an article on this research published online in Science magazine. A Stretchable Form of Single-Crystal Silicon for Electronics on Elastomeric Substrates," Dahl-Young Khang, Hanqing Jiang, Young Huang , John A. Rogers, Science, online 12/15/2005...

2005-12-21 - Professor Martin Gruebele's research perfecting single molecule absorption spectroscopy has been published online in Nano Letters. "Laser Absorption Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Carbon Nanotubes," Nano Letters, published online, 12/6/2005. "...

2005-11-17 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — John Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering and chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named to the 2005 Scientific American 50, a list of people and organizations whose contributions to science and technology are recognized by Scientific American, the nation's premier science magazine. Rogers, who is also a Founder Professor of...

2005-11-03 -   Dana Dlott was recently made a Fellow of the AAAS. He was recognized for fundamental studies of vibrational energy in molecular solids and liquids using novel methods of laser spectroscopy having ultrahigh temporal and spatial resolution. Professor Dlott joined the chemistry faculty in 1979 after completing his doctorate at Stanford University. He received his B. S. from Columbia...

2005-10-18 -   CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Mimicking nature, a procedure developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign can find and correct defects in self-assembled nanomaterials. The new proofreading and error-removal process is based on catalytic DNA and represents a paradigm shift in nanoscale science and engineering. Despite much progress made in the self-assembly of...

2005-09-19 - Professor Martin Gruebele has been named a 2006 Biophysical Society Fellow. This award is designed to honor the Society's distinguished members who have demonstrated excellence in science and to the expansion of the field of biophysics.

2005-09-16 - A new way of making nanoparticles developed by chemistry Professor Kenneth Suslick and Yuri Didenko, a senior research scientist in chemistry, could make a big difference to nanotechnology. "Nanoparticles cooked up in aerosol spray," Nature, 9/15/2005.

2005-09-14 - Professor Paul Hergenrother made Technology Reviews magazine's list of top innovators under age 35. His descriptor is "Discovering drugs that defy convention". (more information)

2005-09-02 - Professor Wilfred van der Donk has been selected to receive a 2006 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. The announcement of this highly competitive award was just made at the ACS National Meeting in Washington D.C. In addition to receiving $5000, a certificate, and a $40,000 unrestricted research grant, he will present an award address at the National ACS Meeting in...

2005-09-01 - The research of Professor Jonathan Sweedler was featured in a UIUC News Bureau article. "New techniques study the brain's chemistry, neuron by neuron," 8/31/05.