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2005-07-01 - Gaining an understanding of lipid mobility and subsequently cell membrane function is the subject of Steve Granick's research that was featured in two articles."Macromolecules on surface control mobility in phospholipid bilayers," UIUC News Bureau, 6/20/05."...

2005-06-28 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —A new method for manipulating macromolecules has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The technique uses double-stranded DNA to direct the behavior of other molecules."Nature uses DNA as a building block to construct genes for storing information," said Scott Silverman, a professor of...

2005-06-20 - Professor Paul Hergenrother's research is highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News, June 20."Taking Aim At Melanoma: Compounds kill melanoma cells by targeting oft-ignored part of cell cycle," C & EN News, 83(25):17 (2005).

2005-06-14 - Stephen Sligar elected a Fellow of of the World Innovation Foundation and receives a NSF Human Frontiers Science Program Research Award.

2005-06-14 - Professor Chad Rienstra has been selected to be a NCSA/UIUC Fellow for 2005-2006. This will enable research collaboration between his group and NCSA. The project they will be collaborating on is cyberinfrastructure for NMR data acquisition and analysis.

2005-06-14 - Neil Kelleher was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for 2004 in Washington D. C. on June 13, 2005.

2005-05-09 - The exciting research of Professor Humin Zhao was featured in "By creating molecular 'bridge,' scientists change function of a protein," UIUC News Bureau, 5/5/05.

2005-05-05 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -By designing a molecular bridge, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have forged a successful pathway through a complex ocean of barriers: They've changed the function of a protein using a co-evolution approach.In a study to be published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, doctoral student Zhilei Chen and Huimin Zhao, a professor of chemical and...

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...