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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)

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. "...