News

2004-12-06 - Emad Tajkhorshid and Professor Klaus Schulten won the 2004 Visualization Challenge, Illustration category, awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their image of the complex machinery a cell uses to exchange...

2004-11-15 - Professor Paul Hergenrother's research group is developing a new method for combating antibiotic resistance in bacteria. (UIUC News Bureau article) The News Gazette,...

2004-11-12 - Photo by Kwame RossChemistry professor Paul Hergenrother, second from right, and graduate students, from left, Jason R. Thomas, Johna C.B. DeNap and Dinty J. Musk have discovered a new approach to outwit resistance to antibiotics. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —A new approach to outwit resistance to antibiotics has been discovered by a team of researchers at the University of Illinois at...

2004-10-28 - The microfluidic fuel cell research of Professor Ralph Nuzzo's group was highlighted in the October issue of Today's Chemist at Work. The article summarized their work which was recently published in Langmuir, 2004, 20(17), 6974-6976. Update, Today's Chemist at Work (pdf)

2004-10-14 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Thom H. Dunning Jr. today was named director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, pending approval of the university's board of trustees.Dunning officially will assume his new position shortly after Jan. 1, 2005. He also has been recommended for an endowed position as Distinguished Chair for Research Excellence...

2004-09-24 - Professor Dana Dlott and colleagues had an article published in Science Express Web describing their research monitoring the energy flow through molecules. "At Molecular Scale, Vibrational Couplings Define Heat Conduction," UIUC News Bureau, 9/23/2004....

2004-09-23 - Photo by Kwame RossFrom left, graduate student Yoonsoo Pang, chemistry professor Dana Dlott and postdoctoral research associate Zhaohui Wang worked with colleagues at the University of Scranton to time the flow of vibrational heat energy through a water-surfactant-organic solvent system. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Too much heat can destroy a sturdy automobile engine or a miniature...

2004-09-16 - Faculty member featured in LASNews - Kenneth Suslick - "Molecules Are His Medium"

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....