One of the most momentous events in the history of life involved endosymbiosis — a process by which one organism engulfed another and, instead of ingesting it, incorporated its DNA and functions into itself. Scientific consensus is that this happened twice over the course of evolution, resulting in...

A former staff member in the Department of Chemistry, Evelyn Carlier, 92, of Champaign, died on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. Carlier worked in the physical chemistry area office in the Department of...

In a special ceremony on Nov. 16, 2024, the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, one of the premier research institutions in the world, awarded Professor Scott E. Denmark an honorary doctorate in recognition of outstanding achievements throughout his...

The Electrochemical Society awarded the 2024 Electrodeposition Division Research Award to Professor Andrew A. Gewirth, Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor in Analytical Chemistry. The Electrochemical...

Markita Landry (PhD, ’12) is an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a 2024 Blavatnik National Award winner and 2020...

A tiny, four-fingered “hand” folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID-19 for highly sensitive rapid detection and can even block viral particles from entering cells to infect them, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers report. Dubbed the NanoGripper,...

In honor of the 80th birthday of chemistry Prof. John Katzenellenbogen, several alumni of his research group organized a scientific symposium that was held Nov. 8-9 on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus where he has been a faculty member for over 50 years. More than 70 alumni of...

Scott E. Denmark, Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry, has been elected a Center for Advanced Study professor. Prof. Denmark is one of seven new CAS professors elected in November. The others are Lisa Ainsworth, Plant Biology;...

Nicholas E. Jackson has won the 2024 Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum's Young Investigator Award.  Jackson, assistant professor of chemistry and Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Scholar, was cited...

The American Chemical Society's Board of Directors has awarded Petroleum Research Fund grants to 126 researchers, including chemistry professor Liviu M. Mirica, in the second application round of 2024. Mirica said this award from the ACS...