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2004-09-09 - University of Illinois to host new NIH Neuroproteomics Center. Jonathan Sweedler is principle investigator of the new center that will integrate the expertise of scientists studying cell to cell interactions and those scientists developing techniques to enable them to measure those interactions.

2004-09-09 - Joseph Rule (Jeffrey Moore's group) was given a travel award to give a talk at the ACS national meeting in Philadelphia. His participation in the Excellence in Graduate Research Symposium, which is sponsored by the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry and co-sponsored as a Presidential Event and by the Younger Chemists Committee resulted in his giving the...

2004-08-09 - Associate Professor of Chemistry Wilfred van der Donk appears on the list of UIUC University Scholars named this year. Now in its 19th year, the University Scholars program recognizes excellence and provides $10,000 to each scholar to use to enhance his or her academic career.Professor van der Donk's research accomplishments have established him as one of the leading bioorganic chemists of his...

2004-08-09 - Jennifer Heemstra was one of 14 graduate students receiving an ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship this year. The fellowship stipend this year is $20,000, and the Fellows will travel to the 2005 National Organic Symposium to present a poster on their work. Each of the fellowships is sponsored by a prominent company or organization. Awardees are selected by an independent...

2004-06-18 - Professors Ralph Nuzzo and John Rogers will have a paper published in Applied Physics Letters, June 28 detailing their research creating high performance, thin-film transistors. Innovations Report, "Printable Silicon For Ultrahigh Performance...

2003-10-06 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Paul C. Lauterbur, a pioneer in the development of magnetic resonance imaging and a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shares the prize with Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham in England....