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Holiday Magic Chemistry Demonstration Show returns with a bang
More than 450 people attended two showings of the Holiday Magic Chemistry Demonstration Show that was revived in the 2024 holiday season thanks to staff members and teaching faculty members in the Department of Chemistry.
Assistant Director of Teaching Labs Serenity Desmond spearheaded the effort...
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With CCIL Seed Grant, Hee-Sun Han Develops Cellular Mapping Tool for Cancer Tissue
Hee-Sun Han, assistant professor of chemistry and Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member and assistant professor of chemistry has developed an Intracellular Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Toolkit (InSTAnT) that allows researchers to...
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Study led by Angad Mehta offers insight into chloroplast evolution
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...
In Memoriam: Retired chemistry staff member Evelyn Carlier
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...
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Scott E. Denmark awarded honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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...
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Andrew A. Gewirth awarded the 2024 Electrodeposition Division Research Award
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...
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Markita Landry (PhD, '12) inspires Illinois chemistry students with research, educational journey
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...
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Nanorobot hand made of DNA grabs viruses for diagnostics and blocks cell entry
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,...
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John A. Katzenellenbogen honored at event hosted by alumni
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...