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Qian Chen awarded the 2025 Langmuir Lectureship of ACS

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...
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New course blends coffee and chemistry for unique global learning experience

 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...
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Researchers discover a way to reduce waste and save energy in making an industrial chemical

 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...
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Jonathan Sweedler wins Beckman Institute Vision and Spirit Award

The Beckman Institute recognized two community members during its annual April celebration of Arnold Beckman’s birth.Microscopist and Outreach Specialist T Josek won the...
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Chemistry researchers are part of CABBI team working to revolutionize plant bioengineering

As the global population grows, the demand for food and energy is increasing even as extreme weather events make crops more vulnerable to stress. While traditional breeding takes years to develop more resilient crops, plant bioengineering offers a faster, more precise way to improve traits for...
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Drug-delivering aptamers target leukemia stem cells for one-two knockout punch

Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report.The aptamers — short single-strand snippets of DNA that can target molecules like...
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Alumnus Taeghwan Hyeon receives Illinois International alumni award for exceptional achievement

 The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Illinois International named chemistry alumnus Taeghwan Hyeon (Seoul National University), Sharifa Sultana (Illinois), Colby Silvert (University of Maryland), Illinois graduate student Mehrdad Mohammadi, and Illinois undergraduate student David...
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Juan Velásquez (PhD, '11) is living his dream of impacting lives through science

Juan Velásquez vividly remembers that Saturday in June 2006 when he first wandered onto the quad on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus as a new graduate student in chemistry.Less than 24 hours after landing in the wide-open Champaign County landscape dominated by corn and...
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Stephan Link named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Chemistry Professor Stephan Link is one of three faculty members at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who have been named 2024 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. Link...
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