2006-03-27
- Todd Martínez was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society. As noted by the award citation, Todd has revolutionized the way we view photochemistry, especially cis-trans isomerization around a C=C bond, through his development of new methods in ab initio quantum dynamics.
Posted: 2006-03-27
- 2006-03-24 - Assistant Professor Huimin Zhao receives a Helen Corley Petit Award for 2006. This honor is given for extraordinary accomplishment during the tenure probation period by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.Posted: 2006-03-24
- 2006-03-24 - Professor Paul Hergenrother has been named an I. C. Gunsalus Scholar for 2006-2007. A newly designated award, it is given annually to young faculty members in the physical or life sciences who exhibit exemplary scholarship and teaching. The honor comes with $10,000 unrestricted support for his research and teaching.Posted: 2006-03-24
- 2006-03-21 - Professor of Chemistry, M. Christina White was awarded a prestigious NSF CAREER grant titled, "Catalytic Organotransition Metal Chemistry: C-C Bond Forming Reactions via Allylic C-H Bond Activation".Posted: 2006-03-21
- 2006-03-16 - UIUC Physics Professor Klaus Schulten and collaborators at Illinois and the University of California at Irvine have used the computing power of the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications to produce a computer simulation of an entire life form at atomic detail.Posted: 2006-03-16
- 2006-03-15 - Neil Kelleher will receive the 2006 Arthur F. Findeis Award at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia in March.Posted: 2006-03-15
- 2006-03-15 - John Hartwig will be awarded the 2006 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia in March.Posted: 2006-03-15
- 2006-03-06 - The Granick group's lipid, nanoparticle research was featured in "Nanoparticles create biocompatible capsules," UIUC News Bureau, 3/6/2006.Posted: 2006-03-06
- 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.Posted: 2006-03-01
- 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.Posted: 2006-02-24
- 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.Posted: 2006-01-04
- 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.Posted: 2006-01-03
- 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.Posted: 2005-12-31
- 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. "...Posted: 2005-12-31
- 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.Posted: 2005-12-31