This past academic year, undergraduate student researcher Santiago Castro had a lot to learn when he joined the organic chemistry lab of Prof. Jeff Chan. Despite his lack of experience in an organic chemistry research lab, Castro said his graduate student mentor, Chang Jiang, has helped him become...

A third-year graduate student, Dong Ok Kim has been a mentor for the past two years to Michelle Zorigt and Martha Kubakh, two undergraduate researchers in the electrochemistry lab of professor Joaquín Rodríguez-López, who described Kim as an outstanding mentor and female role model.He said Kim’s...

Two chemistry faculty members, Liviu Mirica and Nick Jackson, have been selected by the Center for Advanced Study to pursue individual creative scientific projects in the 2025-26 academic year.The Center for Advanced Study (CAS) at the University of Illinois is an interdisciplinary center that...

This feature about chemistry professor Joaquín Rodríguez-López appeared in the Spring 2025 edition of the College of LAS alumni magazine, The Quadrangle.Never saying no to scienceTo chemistry professor...