As an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California Los Angeles, alumnus Soumitra Athavale (Ph.D., '19) has been working to engineer iron-containing enzymes that could change the way drugs are made by using sustainable and environmentally friendly systems to...
Each year, the Department of Chemistry recognizes the exemplary achievements of seven graduating students during the May Convocation ceremony. All the awards were established by a gift to the department, and some are in memory of an individual. All of the awards include a $1,000 monetary gift to...
Three University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the United States. ...
Six students in the Department of Chemistry have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.Current graduate students selected as NSF Graduate Research Fellows are Giuliana Rose Judge, Sophia Yuxin Liu, Abigail Rose Miller, Alexandru T. Niculescu, and Joshua L. Pack. And...
Prof. Prashant Jain has been awarded a 2026 Langmuir Lectureship by the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry and the Langmuir journal.Jain was selected for the honor for, among other things, "pioneering...
After 30 years as a chemistry professor at the University of Minnesota, Christopher Cramer was thoroughly enjoying his day-to-day mission as Vice President for Research at Minnesota when a tantalizing opportunity emerged in the private sector. “It was a remarkable opportunity,” said Cramer (Ph...
Theodore “Ted” Brown, the founding director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,...
Illinois chemistry postdoctoral researcher Jusung An is one of a select group of exceptional Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars from around the world who have been chosen as 2026 CAS Future Leaders.CAS, a division of the American Chemical...
