- 2008-12-31 - It takes years of training, experience and chemical ingenuity to be able to make a small complex molecule. A typical natural product might contain a handful of aromatic rings, a stretch of multiple double bonds, and the odd heterocycle, all sprinkled with several chiral centres. Stitching these...Posted:
- 2008-12-31 - Two researchers at the University of Illinois – Martin D. Burke and Nicholas X. Fang – have been chosen as two of the world’s 35 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, the world’s oldest technology magazine.Posted:
- 2008-12-31 - Dr. Martin Burke of Chemistry at Illinois has recently been profiled and interviewed by The Scientist Magazine. Read the whole article here.Posted:
- 2008-12-31 - Adding a food additive to damaged polymers can help restore them to full strength, say scientists at the University of Illinois who cooked up the novel, self-healing system.Posted:
- 2008-12-31 - John Katzenellenbogen has received the RSC Centenary Lectureship. "Financed by the Centenary Fund which was founded to celebrate the Centenary of the Chemical Society, for the purpose of promoting interchange of chemists between Britain and overseas countries and of financing the annual appointment...Posted:
- 2008-09-26 - Scientists at the University of Illinois have developed a new class of disposable, microplate-based optical biosensors capable of detecting protein-DNA interactions. Based on the properties of photonic crystals, the biosensors are suitable for the rapid identification of inhibitors of protein-...Posted:
- 2008-08-28 - Paul Hergenrother and Brian Cummings research has recently been reviewed in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World magazine. Read the article here.Posted:
- 2008-08-18 - The White Group's article 'A General and Highly Selective Chelate-Controlled Intermolecular Oxidative Heck Reaction' was in the July 31, 2008 edition of C&E News.Posted:
- 2008-08-11 - Martin Gruebele's research into the properties of water and protein folding has been reviewed in numerous scientific and non-scientific articles from around the world. To read more on this exciting new research, please visit one of the pages listed below: ...Posted:
- 2008-06-17 - Charity Flener of Hartford, Ky., who plans to conduct research at Philipps-Universitat in Marburg, Germany, has just been awarded a 2008-2009 scholarship by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Flener is a doctoral candidate in chemistry studying with professors...Posted:
- 2008-04-11 - Chad Rienstra has been selected by the SCS Committee on Staff to receive the 2008 SCS Teaching Award. This award recognizes the entire scope of SCS educational efforts, from course development to in-class instruction.Posted:
- 2008-04-07 - Dr. Thomas Rauchfuss, professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois, is an expert on the synthesis of hydrogenase active site mimics. His expertise has been called upon in the latest search for an alternative fuel. See how Dr. Rauchfuss is helping to explore the possibility of...Posted:
- 2008-03-10 - Six Urbana campus faculty members have been recognized as University Scholars. The program recognizes excellence while helping to identify and retain the university's most talented teachers, scholars and researchers. Now in its 22nd year, the program provides $10,000 to each scholar for each of...Posted:
- 2007-12-31 - Jaclyn Murphy, a student in the Hartwig Group , has won the 2007-2008 Nelson J. Leonard ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship with her essay: "Recent Developments in Methodologies Utilizing Silylboranes".Posted:
- 2007-12-31 - Dr. M. Christina White and student Mark Chen's new research into predictably selective aliphatic C-H oxidation for complex molecule synthesis that recently appeared in Science has been covered in six news articles.Posted: