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2005-05-01 - Professor of Chemistry Chad Rienstra has been selected by the Research Corporation as a Cottrell Scholar for 2005-7. The recognition comes with a cash award of $100,000. Out of some 130 applicants in the fields of astronomy, chemistry, and physics, only 13 were selected. Professor Rienstra is the 11th Cottrell Scholar at UIUC, and "no other institution comes close" according to a representative...

2005-05-01 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Martin Gruebele, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has received a Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Research Prize Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany.Each year the foundation grants approximately 20 research awards to young scientists and scholars from abroad who already are recognized as outstanding researchers in...

2005-04-27 - Ralph Nuzzo elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the World Innovation Foundation.

2005-04-11 - Ryan Woodyer (Huimin Zhao, Wilfred van der Donk) is the recipient of the 2005 WH Peterson Award for the best poster presentation by a graduate student at the ACS Biochemical Technology division.

2005-04-11 - "Researchers improve design of genetic on-off switches," April 4, 2005, UIUC News Bureau article, features the research of Professor Huimin Zhao and others.

2005-04-07 - Photo by Jim BarlowHuimin Zhao is a professor in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering and member of the Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have set a new standard in the design and engineering of nuclear hormone receptor-based genetic on-off switches, without causing new...

2005-04-01 - The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has announced that Taekjip Ha, associate professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as one of 43 of the nation's most promising biomedical scientists as new HHMI investigators. The 32 men and 11 women are drawn from 31 institutions nationwide, representing traditional biomedical research disciplines, as well...

2005-03-28 - "Theories of high-temperature superconductivity violate Pauli Principle," is the title of the UIUC News Bureau article involving the work of Professor Philip Phillips.

2005-03-24 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Scientists seeking to explain high-temperature superconductivity have been violating the Pauli exclusion principle, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Rutgers University report. Any theory that does not embrace the Pauli principle has a lot of explaining to do, they say.The basic organizing precept behind the periodic table is the Pauli...

2005-03-17 - Tighe Spurlin (Gewirth Group) has been selected to attend the 55th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany.

2005-03-15 - The ultrasound research of Professor Kenneth Suslick and graduate student David Flannigan, as published in Nature has resulted in a media blitz on the subject."Bubbles get hotter than the sun," Live Science, 3/3/2005....

2005-03-02 - "High-intensity ultrasound creates hollow nanospheres and nanocrystals," UIUC News Bureau, (2/22/2005) describes the research of Professor Ken Suslick that was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

2005-03-02 - It was recently announced that Professor Paul Hergenrother will receive a grant of $40,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to be used in support of his research. The Sloan Fellowships are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in seven fields of science: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics,...

2005-03-01 - Photo by Kwame RossDavid Y. Gin, a professor of chemistry, and his colleagues have synthesized QS-21A, a medically important molecule that helps the body battle disease. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -The first synthesis of QS-21A, a medicinally important molecule that helps the body battle disease, has been achieved by chemists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.In...

2005-02-28 - The research of Steve Granick was featured in a UIUC News Bureau article."High-fidelity patterns form spontaneously when solvent evaporates," UIUC News Bureau, 2/28/2005.