In chemistry, the right combination of essential elements can lead to scientific discoveries that impact the world.Drawing a comparison, Rosa Milagros Santos, associate provost of faculty development at Illinois, described as “essential elements” the generosity of individuals who support faculty...

 A first-year graduate student, Eliza Asani truly enjoys chemistry, but you won’t find her in the lab. As a computational chemist, she spends most of her time in front of a computer.That would have surprised Asani several years ago when she was a freshman at the University of Alabama in...

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced the selection of Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2025, including Illinois chemistry faculty member Nicholas E. Jackson.The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty...

 Chemistry graduate student Alexander Gomez received an Outstanding Mentor award during the C2 awards ceremony on April 28.The goal of the C² program is to foster excellence in the chemical sciences at Illinois. Graduate...

 Three graduate students from the Department of Chemistry were recognized by the Chemical Sciences Through Community (C2) program for outstanding mentorship of undergraduates. Oliver Pichardo Peguero is a graduate student in the research group of Prof. Jeff Chan. Danielle Loving is a...

 Four faculty members from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the United States. Materials science professor...

Qian Chen, Professor and Racheff Faculty Scholar in Materials Science & Engineering, and Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded the Langmuir Lectureship of the American Chemical Society.The award is among the highest honors of the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry and is awarded...

 Several years ago, a conversation with a young coffee farmer from Panama stirred in José Andino Martinez a deep curiosity about the chemistry of coffee. The farmer impressed upon Andino the significance of the coffee bean growing and roasting process in producing a wide variety of...

 Sometimes less is more. That’s what chemistry researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign discovered as they were developing a new chemical reaction to produce a widely used chemical additive that gives polypropylene near-glass-like clarity and lower processing...