Awards and Honors

Priti Kharel, a sixth-year graduate student in the lab of Pinshane Huang, has been awarded the Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship, and Prakriti Das, a fifth-year graduate student in the lab of...

A team from the Department of Chemistry took first place among 12 teams in a cross-campus computational science competition at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

Two PhD graduates, Qi Hua and Falon Kalutantirige, were awarded the 2024 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis in the Department of Chemistry.

Two PhD graduates in the Department of Chemistry — Chi-Herng "Daniel" Hu and Joe Lastowski — were awarded the 2024 Theron Standish Piper Award for outstanding thesis work in inorganic chemistry.

The two chemistry emeritus professors were among a trio of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a...

The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences.

Alcorn is now a postdoctoral researcher in the Materials Physics Division of Sandia National Labs and recently returned to the Illinois campus to receive the Klemperer Award and present his...

Through the Kimberly-Clark Right Cycle Program, teaching labs and some research labs in the Department of Chemistry diverted 1.03 tons or 2,278 pounds of PPE waste in 2023, earning the department a...

The AAAS selected Prof. Landes “for the development of next-generation tools and models to image and understand dynamics governing separations at soft interfaces at the single analyte limit.”

Kristin Martin and Jason Wu are among the thousands of students nationwide to be awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation fellowships in the highly competitive program.

The Interim Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, chemistry Prof. Catherine Murphy was recently appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and...

A postdoctoral researcher in chemistry Prof. Jeffrey Moore's group, Xiaolin Liu has captured several photos during her work in the lab that have won the School of Chemical Sciences Research Image...

An Illinois chemistry alum who was advised by Prof. Nancy Makri, Sohang Kundu's dissertation, “Exciton-vibration Dynamics Using Real-Time Path Integral Methods,” was awarded the Justin...

Three graduate students in the Department of Chemistr received Stoesser Lecture Poster Session Awards. Suritra Bandyopadhyay, a PhD student in Prof. Jeff Chan’s lab, received the Top...

Backlund will participate in the 34th Annual Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium in Irvine, California, on March 7-9, 2024. 

Advancing the field of electrochemical analysis in one or more of the following:

In February, the American Academy of Microbiology (Academy) elected 65 new fellows to the Class of 2024, including Illinois chemistry Prof....

The NAE announced in February 2024 the election of 114 new members, including Hye Kyung Timken (PhD, ‘87), and 21 international members, including Taeghwan Hyeon (PhD, '96).

Chemistry Prof. Prashant Jain has been selected to receive the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award from the UIUC Office of the Provost and has also been selected to receive the College of LAS...

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and ClimateWorks Foundation made the awards to seven cross-disciplinary teams of early career scientists,...

Eight alumni of the College of LAS will be recognized during the college’s 2024 alumni awards celebration in April, and the honorees include chemistry alums Dan Heller (PhD, ’10) and Tom Remec (BS, ’...

The prestigious NCI Outstanding Investigator Award (OIA) recognizes the outstanding research performance of cancer researchers, providing investigators with significant financial support to...

In a recent ceremony on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, Prashant Jain was invested as the G.L. Clark Professor of Physical Chemistry with university leaders, colleagues, students...

The award is presented by the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.

The Chemistry at Illinois faculty member received the alumni award for contributions to sonochemistry and chemical sensing, which have advanced the field of medical imaging and facilitated lifesaving...

Dr. Chilton (MS, '60; PhD, '67) was presented the award by U.S. President Joe Biden in a ceremony at the White House on Oct. 24, 2023, for her work producing the first transgenic plant and for...

The 2023 Akron American Chemical Society Award recognizes young scientists who show great promise in their professional careers.

Professor Landes is being recognized with this Biophysical Society award for "exciting developments of single molecule measurement techniques, and their application to chemical and biological systems...

The pair are recipients of the 2024 Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, which recognizes outstanding graduate students and their preceptors in the field of chemistry.

The award is given each year to a young investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of bioinorganic chemistry and includes an Award Lecture at the annual Metals in Biology...

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering’s Jiachun Shi has received the 2023 Gender Equity and Inclusion in the Chemical Sciences (GEICS) Inclusive Leadership Award, and Catherine Jalomo in the...

The Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship funds students committed to pursuing interdisciplinary research projects.

The professor in Chemistry at Illinois is one of 93 early career scientists across the nation to receive a combined $135 million from the U.S. Department of Energy for a wide range of scientific...

Matthew Boudreau, a graduate student in the research group of chemistry Prof. Paul Hergenrother, received the 2023 Scarborough Award for Graduate/PostGraduate Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry from...

Shen is one of 16 researchers from the U.S. and Canada to receive a $50,000 award in the final year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease, an initiative sponsored by Research...

The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences announced three 2023 laureates of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. They received 267 nominations from 134...

The Anuj Khandelwal Memorial Fund was established in 2019 in memory of Anuj Khandelwal, who was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of chemistry Prof. Martin Burke from 2016 until Khandelwal's...

Professor of chemistry is one of three scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign selected to attend the WLA Forum which will be held in Shanghai, China, on November 6-8, 2023.

The high-tech company Tiptek LLC, which was founded in 2011 by Illinois chemistry alum Scott Lockledge (PhD, '90) and Illinois professors Joseph Lyding and Gregory Girolami, has received a Small...

The School of Chemical Sciences and the Department of Chemistry have recognized a group of faculty members, faculty instructors and graduate students for their commitment to excellence in the...

In June, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation announced the selection of its 2023 class of Beckman Young Investigator Awardees from U.S. colleges and universities.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Illinois named chemistry professor Nicholas Jackson a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholar and named chemistry professor Joaquín...

Known for pioneering molecular research and efforts to test for COVID-19, chemistry Professor Martin Burke was honored as the May and Ving Lee Professor for Chemical Innovation during an Investiture...

With more than 45 years of experience in the chemical industry, including research for Dow Chemical R&D, earning seven U.S. patents, and as a business leader for Dow Plastics, Dr. Marinda Li Wu...

Leonel Griego, a graduate student in the research group of Liviu Mirica, received the 2022 T.S. Piper Award, and Kenneth Madsen, a graduate student in the research group of Andrew Gewirth, received...

Chemistry graduate student Marya Ornelas and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering graduate student Vanessa DaSilva both received C2 Outstanding Mentor Awards for their work with undergraduate...

Morgan Kennebeck, a graduate in the Class of 2023, received the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry's Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry, and sophomore Aidan Lindsay received the ACS...

Seven bachelor's degree graduates and two doctoral degree graduates were recognized with awards at the Department of Chemistry's Convocation ceremony on May 14, 2023.

Amanda East, a graduate student in the Chan lab, was awarded the Murawski Award, and Robert Boyd, a graduate student in the Silverman lab, was awarded the Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship.

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the most promising innovators in science and technology, has announced the 2023 Hertz Fellows, 15 remarkable...

The St. Elmo Brady Postdoctoral Inclusive Excellence Symposium was created in 2020 to highlight the work of talented postdoctoral researchers from traditionally underrepresented groups by inviting...

One of the highest professional honors a scientist can receive, chemistry professor Nancy Makri is among 120 members and 23 international members elected this year to recognize their distinguished...

A fourth-year graduate student, Anita Wo is the recipient of the Advocate Award, which recognizes an Illinois faculty member, staff member, or student who consistently "walks the walk" and advocates...

The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning announces list of faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants ranked excellent by students in Fall 2022 courses.

Charles Schroeder won the 2023 Beckman Institute Vision and Spirit Award, a recognition of how he demonstrates Arnold Beckman’s vision of excellence and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Zane Thornburg, a PhD candidate in professor Zaida Luthey-Schulten's group, and Kelly Powderly, a postdoctoral researcher in professor Cathy Murphy's group, will begin their postdoctoral fellowships...

A graduate in the Class of 2021, Kocheril joins a group of 42 finalists from across the United States who will participate in a final round of interviews for one of the most competitive and coveted...

The five University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors were presented the award by the University of Illinois System, which recognizes faculty members from the Chicago, Springfield and...

Aidan Lindsay, an undergraduate researcher in the lab of chemistry professor Prashant Jain, is one of three University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students among the more than 400 across the nation...

The highly competitive National Science Foundation program supports students pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and social science...

Chemistry professor Mei Shen is among 126 early-career researchers receiving the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The American Chemical Society's Physical Division selects Illinois chemistry faculty member Josh Vura-Weis for the Richard Van Duyne Early Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry.

Professor Olshansky will participate in the Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia of the NAS, which bring together scientists who are 45 or younger to engage in exceptional research in a variety of...

Dr. Lance E. Rodewald is a senior advisor to the National Immunization Program of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Chemistry professor is one of seven Illinois faculty members in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Class of 2022, which also includes professor Charles Schroeder, an affiliate...

An end-of-year review of 2022 chemistry trends and discoveries includes work by a research team in the lab of Professor M. Christina White for their discovery of a new way to build tertiary amines...

The National Academy of Sciences award recognizes Timken's groundbreaking work at Chevron on innovative catalysts, which has been instrumental in making oil refineries safer, and fossil fuels more...

The School of Chemical Sciences will recognize the winners and finalists of the 2022 Science Image Challenge during an Award Ceremony at 4 p.m. on Feb. 9, 2023, in the Chemistry Library in Noyes...

Dr. Martin D. Burke, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of chemistry and of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Election to...

Those on the Top 40 Under 40 Power List for 2022 were nominated by Analytical Scientist readers and shortlisted by an independent panel of judges.

​​​​​​​The UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Georgia, Gregory H. Robinson and his research teams have made groundbreaking discoveries studying problems related...

As the 2021-22 academic year comes to a close, the School of Chemical Sciences and the Department of Chemistry have recognized a group of faculty members, faculty instructors and graduate students...

One of five students awarded a PPG Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) Graduate Research Assistantship to pursue cutting-edge research, Zhuang Xu will focus on investigating the assembly pathway of...

The American Chemical Society has announced the 2023 National Award winners, including chemistry professors Scott Denmark and Nancy Makri. The recipients also include Illinois chemistry alumnus Mark...

Nuzzo is a 2022 Kavli Prize Laureate in Nanoscience along with David L. Allara, Jacob Sagiv and George Whitesides for their work on self-assembled monolayers, which transformed surface science and...

Chemistry graduate student Anita Wo received the Gender Equity and Inclusion in the Chemical Sciences Inclusive Leadership Award and Claudia Berdugo-Díaz, a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering...

The award recognizes outstanding achievement by undergraduate students in physical chemistry and encourage students to further their pursuits in the field. The recipients, who are nominated by...

These five SEED awards announced by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement offer Cottrell Scholars the opportunity to start high-risk, high-reward new research, granting each recipient $50,...

The Radding award was established in 1994 by the Silicon Valley Section of the ACS to recognize demonstrated, dedicated, unselfish leadership, service and significant contributions, over a sustained...

University Scholars program recognizes faculty members on the University of Illinois System's three campuses for their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service.

Zhao, a chemical and biomolecular engineering professor and affiliate faculty member in chemistry, develops and applies synthetic biology tools for industrial and medical applications and studies the...

Led by Serenity Desmond, the assistant director of Teaching Labs for Chemistry, and Physical Science Technical Assistants Michelle Colombo, Justin McGlauchlen, and Alexis Waite, a program to...

Currently a third-year graduate student in the lab of Professor Angad Mehta, Cournoyer has continuously mentored undergraduate researchers.

In recognition of outstanding mentorship of undergraduates in research, chemistry graduate student Alex Shved has been awarded the third annual Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship.

The latest class of Arnold O. Beckman fellows includes Illinois chemistry alumnus Andrew Zahrt, who graduated in August 2020 with a PhD in organic chemistry under the advisement of Professor Scott...

The annual awards are presented to individual undergraduate and graduate students for various achievements, including academic excellence and outstanding research in the chemical sciences.

The in-person event honored the Illinois faculty members who were elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022 and 2021, which included the two professors of chemistry.

Faculty member and Head of the Department of Chemistry is named winner of the Centenary Prize for pioneering work with gold nanocrystals and excellence in communication.

The Illinois Professor Emeritus of Chemistry is one of four 2022 Kavli Prize Laureates in Nanoscience being honored for contributions to the development of self-assembled monolayers on solid...

Alpha Omega Epsilon chose to recognize Professor Hee-Sun for her willingness to "go above and beyond" to ensure that her students are understanding the concepts she teaches in her chemistry class.

Two chemistry graduate students in the C² program — Joenisse Rosado-Rosa and Catherine Jalomo — were recognized for outstanding mentorship of undergraduate students in the chemical sciences. Chemical...

The 18 researchers selected for the teacher-scholar awards are all within the first five years of their academic careers, have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are...

Yunyan Sun is a PhD student in professor Jeff Moore's group who will be investigating a type of force-sensitive molecule known as a mechanophore with the ultimate goal of making advancements in...

A recent Investiture ceremony celebrated his selection as the John and Margaret Witt Professor of Chemistry, an endowed fund that will allow his research group to continue its work in the discovery...

CAS Associates are tenured Illinois faculty members whose project proposals are selected in an annual competition. They are granted one semester of teaching release time in order to pursue an...

Four Illinois chemistry graduate students have been selected 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows and four more were accorded honorable mention.

So Hirata, Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry, and Prashant Jain, Professor of Chemistry and Alumni Scholar, are among 180 artists, writers, scholars and scientists who were chosen...

As a teaching professor of chemistry, Ray received the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award, which recognizes instructors for outstanding performance both in and out of the classroom.

The list of faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants in the Department of Chemistry who were ranked excellent by their students has been announced from results of the Fall...

The list of faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants in the Department of Chemistry who were ranked excellent by their students has been announced from results of the Spring...

The College of LAS has named the winners of this year’s teaching and advising awards, and...

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named a diverse group of 24 early career scholars in chemistry, physics and astronomy as...

Fourteen University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members, including chemistry professor Martin Burke, have been elected 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Chemistry undergraduate student Andrew Sunwoo Lee is one of 20 undergraduate and graduate students and faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who were recognized during the 2021 the...

The $5,000 scholarships are awarded to undergraduates who have shown outstanding academic achievement and excelled in leadership, research and innovation as demonstrated by classroom performance,...

Beckman Director Jeff Moore has been awarded the Campus Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award, which recognizes outstanding academic leadership and vision by an executive officer within a...

Chemistry professors included on The Analytical Scientist's annual Power List of the top 100 analytical scientists in the world.

Markita Landry, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, will be recognized with the 2020 and 2021 alumni award...

Graduate student Melissa Lucero has been selected the 2021-22 winner of the Professor Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship. This graduate scholarship was...

The Vilcek Foundation selected Markita del Carpio Landry (PhD, '12) to receive the Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, which is one of several foundation prizes celebrating foreign-born...

Every two years the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society presents the prestigious Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award to an exceptional younger chemist in commemoration of the...

Professors Jefferson Chan and David Sarlah both joined the Chemistry at Illinois faculty in 2014.

An affiliate faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, Charles Schroeder receives this honor in recognition of his distinguished scholarly achievements and leadership in the areas of polymers...

The Vallee Scholar program appointed six new scholars this year in its continuing mission to provide unrestricted funding for national and international early career researchers at a critical stage...

Jazmin Aguilar-Romero and Sarah Krueger are the 2021 recipients of the Women in Chemistry Inclusive Leadership Award sponsored by the Department of Chemistry Office of Graduate Diversity and Program...

Presidential Medallions were given to key leaders behind the SHIELD efforts and vaccine work in response to COVID-19, including chemistry professors Martin Burke and Paul Hergenrother and chemistry...

The inaugural Research Response to Community Crisis Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities was awarded to the university’s SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell program that...

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced seven award recipients in the 2021 program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering, totaling $799,470.

The one-month visiting professorship opportunity at the Kavli Institute at the University of Oxford allows Stephen Sligar to collaborate with Professor Dame Carol Robinson on protein-protein and...

The program's third cohort of 27 STEM faculty and administrators from underrepresented backgrounds will gain leadership development to prepare them for senior roles at colleges and universities.

The award, presented by Langmuir and the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry, recognizes individuals working in the interdisciplinary field of colloid...

The Johnson & Johnson WISTEM2D Scholar program recognizes scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design, and provides each with $150,000 in research funding and...

Six multidisciplinary teams from the United States and Canada received awards in the inaugural year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease, an initiative to better understand...

The Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry recognizes scientists under the age of 40 for recent achievements in the field of electrochemistry for energy.

A May 2021 graduate and aspiring physician with a triple major in molecular and cellular biology, chemistry and Spanish, Grace Maloney will serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in the city...

Several professors, instructors and graduate students have been recognized for teaching excellence in the 2020-21 academic year by the Department of Chemistry and the School of Chemical Sciences...

Three winners of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists – in life sciences, chemistry, and physical sciences and engineering ­– will be announced on July 20, each receiving...

The St. Elmo Brady Scholars Program provides summer research opportunities at Illinois for undergraduates from Tougaloo, Howard, Fisk, and Tuskegee universities, whose chemistry programs were founded...

The collaborative effort that included UIUC chemistry alum Leigh-Anne Ihnken has been awarded an RSC Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award for the development of new biocatalysts for...

The Royal Society of Chemistry has awarded Kenneth Suslick with the Theophilus Redwood Award for contributions to artificial olfaction as an analytical technique and for the invention and development...

Jefferson Chan and Joaquín Rodríguez-López have received named scholar positions from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences for their contributions in education and research at the University of...

The Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) award is granted to faculty early in their career based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign senior Sriyankari Chitti, a chemistry major and undergraduate researcher is one of 76 students to be offered this award from more than 8,000 applicants around...

The funding will enable researchers to begin screening and designing electron and ion transporting properties of polymers across the chemical genome, which will seed broader efforts in Nick Jackson's...

Ralph Nuzzo and Wilfred van der Donk are among 120 newly elected U.S. members of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest professional honors a scientist can receive.

Chemistry professors Nancy Makri and Kenneth Schweizer are among the 252 new members elected this year to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honor...

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has awarded more than 500 LAS Impact Awards, recognizing inspiring efforts of faculty members, staff and students during the COVID-19 pandemic, including...

Professor Martin D. Burke, the May and Ving Lee Professor for Chemical Innovation, and Professor of Chemistry, has been elected a member of The American Society for Clinical Investigation. 

Chemistry student Evan Dray is one of four UIUC students awarded Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for their potential to contribute to the advancement of research in the natural sciences,...

Professor Mei Shen has received the 2021 Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist from the American Chemical Society's Division of Analytical Chemistry. The...

The list of faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants in the Department of Chemistry who were ranked excellent by their students has been announced from results of the Fall...

The list of faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants in the Department of Chemistry who were ranked excellent by their students has been announced from results of the Spring...

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has selected Sarah Sheeley (PhD, '04, Sweedler) in the Department of Chemistry for the 2021 LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.

Seven University of Illinois chemistry students are among a total of more than 2,000 students to be awarded the prestigious 2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, and seven...

The American Chemical Society UIUC Student Chapter has been selected as an “Outstanding Chapter” for the 2019-2020 academic year and will be recognized for this highest achievement during the 2021...

A research image created by graduate student Reshmi Dani has received honorable mention as one of six finalists in the Illinois Graduate College's 2021 Image of Research exhibition.

An affiliate faculty member in chemistry, Rohit Bhargava was selected as the 2021 recipient of The Optical Society (OSA) Ellis R. Lippincott Award. Co-presented by the OSA, the Coblentz Society and...

A teaching laboratory coordinator in the Department of Chemistry, Serenity Desmond is one of seven staff and academic professionals being recognized for outstanding contributions to the College...

The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society has named Nancy Makri the recipient of the 2021 Award in Theoretical Chemistry, recognizing her research into long-time numerical path...

The School of Chemical Sciences has announced results of the 2020 SCS Science Image Challenge that features computer-assisted or traditional scientific images of research with the overall goal of...

Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life,...

Recent graduate student who completed his PhD in 2019 finishes first along with a 10-person team from the Max Planck Institute in Mulheim, Germany, in an international 96-hour race to identify the...

After graduation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, senior Omar Alshangiti will continue his academic career at the University of Oxford in England following his selection as a...

Chemistry professors Rohit Bhargava, Paul Braun and Prashant Jain, along with two other University of Illinois professors, are among the 489 scientists to be awarded the distinction of AAAS...

The American Chemical Society selected Lydia E. M. Hines (PhD, '71) as the recipient of the 2020 Helen M. Free Award for Public Outreach. The award is presented annually by the ACS Committee on...

Fourth-year graduate student Justin Miller receives the inaugural Professor Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship, established by Dr. De-Kai Loo and Dr. Jianjian Zhang in 2018 in honor of Schuster, who...

Matthew Boudreau, a chemistry PhD candidate, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Cancer Institute for his research in the Cancer Center at Illinois centered around a novel...

The American Chemical Society's Committee on Minority Affairs has selected Lloyd Munjanja, the associate director of Graduate Diversity and Program Climate, as the 2020 recipient of the Stanley C....

The chemistry Administrative Office in Noyes certified silver in 2019 and is now the first office to reach gold certification in 2020 as part of the university’s Certified Green Office Program that...

The U of I was honored by the International Laboratory Freezer Challenge as one of the top universities at implementing cold-storage best management practices and reducing energy usage for a third...

The annual top 10 list features early- and mid-career scientists who are pushing the boundaries of scientific inquiry and demonstrating potential to shape the science of the future.

The award will enable Shen and her research group to create new electrochemical methods and microscopes to detect, measure, and visualize the presence of chemicals that are used as...

An alumna from the Department of Chemistry is one of 10 alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences to be named recipients of the college’s 2020 annual alumni awards.

The $5,000 scholarships are awarded to undergraduates who have shown outstanding academic achievement and excelled in leadership, research and innovation as demonstrated by classroom performance,...

Graduate student Alison Wallum's commitment to inclusive excellence was recognized with the annual Women in Chemistry Inclusive Leadership Award, and graduate student Hannah Toru was also recognized...

He will take over as editor of the flagship publication of the American Chemical Society in 2021 and become the first JACS editor-in-chief to live outside of the U.S. and the first Latin American to...

Faculty member is one of 10 recipients of the national 2021 A.C. Cope Scholar Award and was also named the 2020 KYOTO Rising-Star Lectureship Award Winner.

An instructional faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, Christian Ray was promoted to teaching associate professor of chemistry.

Four Department of Chemistry graduating seniors in the Class of 2020 received convocation awards in May. Each award includes a $1,000 gift to the graduating student.  Andria Pace...

Chemistry Professor Nancy Makri and six graduate students were honored with 2020 teaching excellence awards and fellowships from the Department of Chemistry and School of Chemical Sciences.

The Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry recognizes the research of Professor Liviu Mirica with the organization's 2020 Early Career Award.

The Center for Advanced Study has appointed seven new members to its permanent faculty, including Professor Jeffrey Moore, the Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair in the Department of Chemistry.

Kaibo Feng and Mikiko Okumura are both in the group of 45 finalists from all over the world for the 2020 Reaxys PhD Prize.

Professor David Sarlah and Professor Hee-Sun Han have interdisciplinary projects that have been selected for the Cancer Center at Illinois’ annual seed grant awards.

Professor Wilfred Van der Donk, the Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry, has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Pedler Award for the combined application of organic...

Professor Yi Lu, the Jay and Ann Schenck Professor of Chemistry, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Joseph Chatt Award for elucidating design principles of artificial metalloproteins to gain...

Prashant Jain has been announced as one of 31 finalists for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists, which elevate the work and research of early-career scientists in three categories,...

Professor Catherine J. Murphy becomes the first woman to receive the American Chemical Society’s National Award in Inorganic Chemistry.

Professor Wilfred van der Donk has been awarded The Harrison Howe Award for 2020, a prestigious honor that recognizes an outstanding chemist in an acknowledgement of the idea that chemistry and the...

A documentary about Illinois chemistry alumnus St. Elmo Brady, the first African American to earn a PhD in chemistry in the United States, has garnered a Telly Award.

Professor Lisa Olshansky is one of 15 researchers chosen for the Searle Scholars Program, a national biomedical research grant program primarily focused on the potential of applicants to make...

The American Chemical Society’s Division of Physical Chemistry has awarded recent graduate David Qiu an undergraduate award, recognizing and honoring talented young chemists across the country.

As an alumna and faculty member, Professor Cathy Murphy brings a rare perspective to her new role as head of the Department of Chemistry, and her role also marks a historic moment as the first woman...

Professor Prashant Jain receives special recognition in promotion to full professor and is named to Alumni Scholar position in the Department of Chemistry.

Namuunzul Otgontseren, a junior studying chemistry who also works in Professor Jefferson Chan’s research group, has been awarded a Beckman Institute Undergraduate Fellowship.

Three chemistry graduates, Elizabeth McDaniel, Elizabeth Murphy and Alayna Johnson are part of a select group, Senior 100 Honorary, which recognizes students who are academically successful, but more...

For demonstrating exceptional leadership on campus, chemistry senior Elizabeth Murphy has been awarded the Patricia E. Askew Leadership Award for 2020.

Seven University of Illinois graduate students have been named 2020 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows, including chemistry graduate student Amanda East. The program offers University of Illinois...

Awards Committee in the Department of Chemistry recommends the appointment of Professor Douglas Mitchell, who is doing world-class work on lasso peptides and other medicinally important chemistry...

Recently honored as an American Cancer Society Research Scholar, this award allows Professor David Sarlah to explore how to successfully acquire a naturally-occurring compound with cancer-fighting...

Professor Philip W. Phillips has been elected to The American Academy of Arts & Sciences as part of its 2020 class of 276 artists, scholars, scientists and leaders in the public, non-profit and...

Professor Josh Vura-Weis has been named one of six 2020-2021 Helen Corley Petit Scholars by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Graduate student Marina Philip is the recipient of an American Association of the Advancement of Science Fellowship that will allow her to write about scientific issues for The Las Vegas Review-...

Prestigious fellowships from the highly-competitive program reward the intellectual rigor of student research projects.

Professor Michael Koerner has worn many hats in his professional and personal life. Early in his career, he worked in private industry as a pharmaceutical process chemist at G.D. Searle & Company...

Sriyankari Chitti was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for her potential to contribute to the advancement of research in the natural sciences, mathematics or engineering.

The dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has announced that Professor Cathy Murphy has accepted the offer to serve as the next head of the Department of Chemistry.

A doctoral student in the Department of Chemistry, Dinumol Devasia, has been awarded a TechnipFMC Fellowship for 2020-21 for her research focusing on the spectroscopic investigation of carbon dioxide...

Professor Martin Gruebele and Research Professor Stephen G. Sligar are winners of the 2020 Protein Society Awards.

Saadia Chaudhry, one of five recently announced 2020 postdoctoral fellows at The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, will be collaborating with Joaquín Rodríguez-Lopéz, an...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Physics Professor Paul Selvin has been awarded the 2020 Gregorio Weber Award for Excellence in Fluorescence Theory and Applications of the Biological...

Professor M. Christina White does not fear a challenge, like delving into a difficult area of synthetic organic chemistry with ideas that test conventional wisdom.

Paul J. Hergenrother, the Kenneth L. Rinehart Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, has been appointed the deputy director of the Cancer Center at Illinois. The...

The American Chemical Society’s division of Analytical Chemistry has chosen Professor Joaquín Rodríguez-López as the recipient of the 2020 Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young...

Megan Kats, chemistry undergraduate, was awarded Cabot Microelectronic's Global Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) Excellence Award. This is a global award given to a handful of employees at each...

Atul K. Verma (PhD, ’96, Rauchfuss) was recognized at the Fall 2019 ACS National Meeting in San Diego with the ACS Heroes of Chemistry Award. 

Scott Denmark, the Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry, was recently named the 2020 recipient of the Paracelsus Prize by the Swiss Chemical Society. The prize recognizes Denmark’s role as an...

Eight faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been named to the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, a global listing of scientists who produced the past...

Professor Paul J. Hergenrother, Kenneth L. Rinehart Jr. Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry, is one of 443 newly elected Fellows into the American Association for the Advancement of...

Jeffrey Moore has been named the Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair, which is deemed to be among the most distinguished honors on campus. “All of our faculty stand out in many ways...

Alison Fout is one of fourteen University of Illinois faculty selected as a 2019-20 Building Pathways Fellow by the Office of the Provost. Building Pathways for Emerging Leaders is a year-long...

Robert J. Jones, Chancellor, recently announced that chemistry affiliate faculty member, Susan A. Martinis, has agreed to become the vice chancellor for research and innovation.

The Women Chemists Committee (WCC) and Younger Chemists Committee of East Central Illinois Chapter (YCC) were each recognized at the American Chemical Society’s fall 2019 national meeting with...

Alumnus H. N. Cheng (PhD, ’74, Gutowsky) has been elected the 2020 American Chemical Society (ACS) President-Elect. Cheng obtained his BS from UCLA, followed by a PhD at the University of Illinois...

Dr. Daniel Dumett Torres of Professor Prashant Jain’s laboratory is the winner of the 2019 Physical Chemistry Dissertation Award, given to the best Ph.D. thesis in the area of physical chemistry each...

Professor Jonathan Sweedler, James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry and director of the School of Chemical Sciences, has the top spot on the Analytical Scientist’s 2019 Power List, which...

Professor Martin D. Burke is a recipient of the 2019 Mukaiyama Award from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan. The Mukaiyama Award was established in 2005 and is awarded annually to...

Professor Scott Denmark, the Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry, has received the 2019 Ryoji Noyori Prize, sponsored by Takasago International Corporation and administered by the Society of...

The Illinois Alumni Association will present their 2019 awards at a private gala during Homecoming Week, October 13-19, 2019. Among those recognized are an Illinois Chemistry alumnus and emeritus...

Elizabeth Murphy, an undergraduate in the Paul Braun group, is one of three winners in the Beckman Institute’s research image contest. The goal of the contest was to submit images that showed the...

Professor Catherine Murphy, along with Dr. Haimei Zheng, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, are this years' joint MRS Medal winners.

Lucas Hernandez, a fifth-year graduate student in the David Sarlah group, received the 2019 Alfred R. Bader Award for Student Innovation.

​​​​​​​Lauren Hagler, a beginning fifth-year graduate student in Steve Zimmerman’s group, is the recipient of the first annual Women in Chemistry (WIC) Inclusive Leadership Award.

Illinois Chemistry alumnus St. Elmo Brady (Ph.D., ’16) was the first African American to obtain a PhD in chemistry in the United States. More than fifty years after his death in 1966, Brady will...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced their 2020 national award winners. Three award winners, Professor Catherine Murphy, Professor Jeffrey Moore and Professor Ken Suslick are among the...

Professor Martin Burke will receive the 2019 iCON Innovator Award at the iCON Award Dinner on September 26, 2019. This award recognizes those scientists who demonstrate leadership potential at the...

The teaching labs in Chemistry Annex and Noyes Lab both received the Environmental Impact Achievement Award from the University of Illinois. The award recognizes their efforts to recycle lab...

Peixin He (PhD, '85, Faulkner) and his wife, Xiaoming Chen, made a donation to endow the Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry. Peixin He studied and worked with Faulkner and authored seven...

Professor Sweedler will receive the award in December 2019 at the 49th Internationl Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC) in Kyoto, Japan. He receives...

Professor M. Christina White has been named the William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor in the School of Chemical Sciences.

On July 2, 2019, President Donald J. Trump announced the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). One of this years' recipients is Prashant Jain. Jain...

Yuanheng (Henry) Wang, an undergraduate student in Professor Renske van der Veen’s lab, earned the 2019 ACS Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry for the University of Illinois at Urbana-...

The 2019 SCS Teaching Awards recipients are listed below. They are recognized for their excellence in the 2018-19 academic year. There are a large number of highly dedicated instructors in SCS, so...

HexNest is a startup company brought to you by two Illinois undergraduate students. Rachel Circelli (chemistry and political science) and Mark Van Den Avont (mechanical engineering) are working...

David Sarlah, an assistant professor of chemistry, has received both the Amgen and the 2019 National Organic Symposium (NOS) Young Investigator Awards. Sarlah is one of four recipients,...

Assistant Professor David Sarlah has been awarded the 2019 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. The $75,000 in award funding will support Sarlah’s research in the...

Philip Kocheril, a student in the Zimmerman group, was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years in recognition for his potential to contribute to the...

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants, recently announced their 2019 Fellows. Among this year’s recipients is...

Joe Nugent, whose research focusing on dehydrogenation chemistry using cobalt pincer complexes, was selected to receive a TechnipFMC Fellowship for 2019-20.

Elizabeth Murphy received the Susan Teegarden Morrison Leadership Scholarship from the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs based on her roles as secretary and outreach chair in the American Chemical...

Professor Jefferson Chan received one of four 2019-20 Beckman Fellow awards which where announced by the Center for Advanced Study. Chan does research in the areas of analytical chemistry,...

Lucas Akin was one of seven graduate students who were chosen to receive the 2019 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowships. The program offers University of Illinois graduate students at...

Illinois alumna Christine Herman (PhD, '12, chemistry; MS, ’14, journalism) was recently recognized with two first-place awards from the Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association. Her story...

Douglas Chan and Rana Youssef, were among 12 students who were chosen to receive Beckman Institute student awards. The awards, which are presented to undergraduate and graduate students, will be...

Dr. Lloyd Munjanja received the Commitment to Students Award at the Ebony Excellence Awards Ceremony on April 29, 2019. Munjanja was nominated by graduate students Lauren Hagler and Safiyah Muhammad...

Todd Spinner, academic adviser for the School of Chemical Sciences, is a 2018-19 Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS) Award for Excellence in Academic Advising recipient. Spinner has served Chemical...

The Urbana School District recognized the Cena y Ciencias program during their recent board meeting. The outreach program, of which Dr. Joaquín Rodríguez-López is a co-leader and active participant,...

The Karen Wold Level the Learning Field Award is given by the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES) in memory of Karen Wold who was an access specialist at DRES. Karen...

Professor Prashant Jain will receive the Beilby Medal and Prize "in recognition of substantial work of exceptional practical significance" in materials science. Jain will be presented the award on...

This 2019 American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) Graduate Fellowship, which was sponsored by the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh, was given to...

Elizabeth Neumann was chosen by a committee that includes students and faculty to receive the Graduate Student Leadership Award. The award, given by the Graduate College, celebrates graduate students...

Professor Scott Denmark, the Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry, received the Eros Best Reagent Award for the reagent N,N'-Bis[(11bR)-3,5-dihydro-3,5-dimethyl-4-oxido-4H-dinaphtho[2,1-d:1',2'-f...

Prashant Jain was one of 19 selected for this year's Defense Science Study Group (DSSG).  DSSG is a program focused on education and study that introduces outstanding science and engineering...

Professor Scott E. Denmark, the R. C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry, is the 2019 recipient of The Journal of Organic Chemistry Outstanding Publication of the Year Award Lectureship...

Charmaine Ong, Chemistry major, was awarded The Illinois Club’s Make A Difference scholarship at their annual Scholarship Brunch on Saturday, March 2.  This $3,000 scholarship is awarded to...

The Beckman Institute named five new Postdoctoral Fellows. Their research covers a diverse set of topics, from diagnosing and treating breast cancer and ostoesarcoma, developing energy-efficient...

As a part of its 100th anniversary, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) sponsored various festivities and awards worldwide, including a Global Women’s Breakfast.

During the annual “Celebrating Diversity, Recognizing Excellence” reception, which was hosted by the Graduate College on Monday, March 4, Lauren Hagler and Tabitha Miller were recognized for public...

The Grammaticakis-Neulmann prize is awarded to researchers, under the age of 40, for exceptional achievements in the field of theoretical or experimental photochemistry. This internationally known...

William Nebergall (MS, '39) is one of 2019 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees. He achieved this award with his development of stannous fluoride toothpaste (US Patent No. 2,876,166).

Six staff and academic professionals are being recognized for their particularly noteworthy efforts in advancing the mission of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences in 2018-19. Jenny Cox, Brad...

On March 14, 2019, Professor Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten was invested as the Murchison-Mallory Endowed Chair in Chemistry at a ceremony on the Urbana campus. Investiture as a named chair or professor...

Catherine J. Murphy is the recipient of the 2019 Remsen Award, presented by the American Chemical Society Maryland Section.

Center for Advanced Study Fellows are untenured University of Illinois faculty members whose proposals are selected in an annual competition. These appointments grant one semester of teaching release...

Cutting edge ideas presented in three minutes or less. In the time it takes for your favorite song to play, University of Illinois graduate students recently showcased their remarkable research to a...

Nine faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been named to the 2018 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list. The list recognizes “leading researchers in the...

Chemistry alumnus traces his success to influential professor at Illinois. This fall, Martin Pomper gathered with others from across the world to be officially inducted the National Academy of...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ...

Peter D. Senter (PhD, ’81, Coates) was one of six...

As a senior studying sociology and chemistry, Tonisha Thacker is used to people questioning her choice of majors, which on paper can seem...

Professor Chad Rienstra, who came to Illinois in 2002, was recently named the John Witt Professor of Chemistry in a ceremony lauding his work in research and teaching. Rienstra’s research into...

At the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston, Professor John A. Katzenellenbogen was inducted into the Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was established in 2006 by...

Prof. Renske van der Veen is the recipient of a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering for 2018. The prestigious fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation provides $875,000 over...

Professor Rodríguez-López, analytical and materials chemistry, was listed in the most recent SN 10. The SN 10 is a list of the top 10 scientists to watch put out by Science News (Magazine...

Congratulations to the WCC and YCC! The East Central Illinois (ECI) chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS) received the following from the ACS:

Professor Prashant Jain was admitted by the Council to the Royal Society of Chemistry as a Fellow. RSC fellowships are the highest level of membership one can attain with the RSC. You must ...

Professor M. Christina White is the 2019 winner of the ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, one of the American Chemical Society’s highest National Awards. Prof. White joins a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the winners of their "Understanding the Rules of Life" awards. These awards fall under two different categories; Early-concept Grants for Exploratory...

Jeff Moore and Joaquin Rodriguez are part of a team that recently were recipients of the Secretary of Energy's Achievement Award.

Perry Lim, research intern, Serionix (undergraduate, chemistry) was a finalist for "Best Entrepreneurial Leadership in a Startup" award. While Tonisha Thacker, communication/marketing Intern,...

The J. C. Jamieson award is given for outstanding achievement in the field of high pressure research. This year's award is unusual in that there was a tie and it is being awarded jointly to Will...

Professor Jonathan Sweedler, James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry, was awarded the Torben Bergman Medal in Lund, Sweden in June, 2018. He received this award for his research in...

The 2018 School of Chemical Sciences (SCS) Teaching Awards recipients have been announced. This year’s recipients represent just a few of the large number of highly dedicated instructors in SCS.

Douglas A. Mitchell was one of eleven faculty members who was honored with the Provost's Campus Distinguished Promotion Award for 2018.

Prof. White has made pioneering contributions to the development of catalysts for selective allylic and aliphatic C—H oxidations that proceed without the requirement for substrate directing groups....

A recent award ceremony gave Illinois chemistry professor John Katzenellenbogen a chance to reflect on his long and successful career.  Dr. Katzenellenbogen received the AACR Award for...

Zan Luthey-Schulten, Taras Pogorelov, Chad Rienstra, and Martin Burke represent two of 34 teams who have received allocations of computation time on the Blue Waters supercomputer.

Professor James Spudich (BS, '63), Stanford University School of Medicine, was chosen to receive the University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award for 2018. The selection is done by fellow alumni...

Thirty-two University of Illinois students have won National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships including 11 students from the Department of Chemistry.

Professor Jeffrey Moore is the Royal Society of Chemistry Stephanie L. Kwolek Award winner for 2018. He was born and raised in Joliet, IL. Professor Moore’s research group integrates...

Scott E. Denmark, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest professional honors a scientist can receive.

Illinois Chemistry sophomore Alayna Johnson has been named a Goldwater Scholar for the 2018-19 academic year.

Prof. Greg Girolami, the William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of Chemistry, has received a Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching.

Research Professor John A. Katzenellenbogen has received the AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research. "This award is presented for outstanding, novel, and significant...

The American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Chemical Pioneer Award recognizes chemists and chemical engineers who have made outstanding contributions advancing the science of chemistry or impacting the...

Thomas B. Rauchfuss can add another award to his long list of accolades. He received the...

We are proud to announce that Renske van der Veen has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for her submitted proposal "Ultrafast Imaging and Spectroscopy of Cooperative Phenomena...

Stephen Elledge (BS, '78) received a 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Elledge was honored at a...

Department head Martin Gruebele, the James R. Eiszner Endowed Chair in Chemistry, has received a 2018 TREE award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).

Paul J. Hergenrother wins the George & Christine Sosnovsky Award for Cancer Research....

Two University of Illinois faculty members with ties to the Department of Chemistry were named to the 2017 Power List, the “Magnificent Tens” published by The Analytical Scientist magazine.

Professor Catherine Murphy is honored for long-standing commitment to the University of Illinois and the Department of Chemistry.

Michael Sofia (PhD, '84 chemistry, Katzenellenbogen) has received a 2017 College of LAS Alumni Achievement Award for discovering the cure to Hepatitis C. He will be honored this weekend during the...

Professor Andrew Gewirth is honored for long-standing commitment to the University of Illinois and the Department of Chemistry.

Erin Nissen, a doctoral candidate in Dana Dlott’s research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded a Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration...

Paul Hergenrother has won the Sosnovsky Award for Cancer Research, one of the National Awards of the American Chemical Society.

Graduate student Emma Southgate (Sarlah group) has been chosen as a recipient of one of the 2017-2018 Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellowships in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. This fellowship will provide...

Undergraduate student Mihail Krumov won the 2017 Undergraduate Student Award from the Eastern Analytical Symposium. The award pays for his travel and stay at the symposium, where he will be...

Graduate student Mark Burgess and postdoc Kenneth Hernandez-Burgos win the “Norman Hackerman Young Author Award” from the Electrochemical Society for the best paper from a young author in the Journal...

Kami Hull has won a 2017 Amgen Young Investigator Award. The award recognizes young chemists who are making significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry and pharmaceutical research.

Every few years, CAS elects a few campus faculty to the position of permanent CAS Professor. Jonathan Sweedler is currently a CAS Professor. He will be joined by three new CAS Professors: Sharon...

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer has been selected as the winner of the 2019 G.M. Kosolapoff Award by the Auburn Local Section of the American Chemical Society and Auburn University.

Prashant Jain has received a 2017 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award. This award is given each year to a very few of the faculty on campus whose...

Jeffrey Moore, the Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry, a professor of materials science and engineering, and a long-time Beckman faculty member, has been named director of the Beckman Institute...

Alumnus Karol Sokolowski received a Chemistry High Achievement scholarship from an anonymous donor that allowed him to finish his undergraduate education in chemistry. The annual scholarship is among...

Jerome Davis and Kang Yong Loh received  Beckman Institute Undergraduate Fellowships and Ashley Lenhart received a Janssen Gamily Undergraduate Research Award.

Prashant Jain was chosen as the Kavli Foundation Emerging Lecturer for the Fall 2017 ACS meeting. This lecture is a high profile, general...

Martin Burke was announced as an inaugural faculty of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. The faculty will consist of prominent researchers,...

Organic Chemistry graduate student, Emma Southgate, received a 2017 WCC Merck Research Award.

The Chemistry Department at Illinois is pleased to announce that four graduate students in the program have received the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. 2017...

A Department of Chemistry graduate student, Zachary Goldsmith, was selected as a recipient of the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship program for the 2017-2018 academic year. The award includes a stipend...

Jeffrey Moore has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research....

Alison Fout was awarded the 2017 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. The...

Paul Hergenrother received the 2017 ACS Cope Scholar Award for innovative use and application of organic synthesis to solve critical problems at the frontiers of chemical biology and translational...

Kenneth Suslick will be awarded the annual Crano Memorial Award by the Akron ACS section at their general meeting held on April 26th.

The late Allene Rosalind Jeanes (PhD, ’38) will be inducted posthumously into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May for, in part, creating a blood plasma extender used by medics in the Korean...

Congratulations to Freddy Nguyen, a 2015 Illinois Chemistry PhD graduate, who was chosen for a prestigious Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows Award. Nguyen is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT...

Chad Rienstra is among six Illinois faculty members elected as 2016 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Lydia Kisley, who was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for 2017. The annual list highlights innovators who are under 30 years old and work in a variety...

A professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois has been nationally recognized for demonstrating a “prolific spirit of innovation.” Kenneth...

Paul Hergenrother is this year's recipient of the Innovation Transfer Award - University of Illinois.

Prof. Catherine Murphy presents Melinda Sindoro the 2016 Klemperer Award.

Catherine Murphy was one of three Cottrell Scholars named as a recipient of the RCSA's new TREE Award (Transformational Research and Excellence in Education) intended to recognize and advance truly...

Congratulations to Christian Ray, who on April 7, 2015, received the 2014-2015 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff.

Professor Thomas B. Rauchfuss was awarded the Ronald Nyholm Prize, given biennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) for outstanding contributions to inorganic chemistry.

A former faculty member of the University of Illinois Department of Chemistry is one of three scientists who received a Nobel Prize on Wednesday for developing computer simulations for complex...

Professor Eric Oldfield will be awarded to the 2011 Avanti Award in Lipids for his pioneering research using NMR methods to investigate lipid membrane structure and for his work in drug discovery,...

James Lisy, Professor of Chemistry, has been named the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award. The award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics whose...

Dr. Scott E. Denmark will receive the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC) Seniro Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry. The award, sponsored by Pfizer Inc. is presented at the biannual...

Ian Dailey (Burke Group) and Daniel Robbins (Hartwig Group) were named recipients of the Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award for research accomplishments in the field of organic chemistry.

Andrew Young, Eric Gillis, and Nathan Werner recently were selected as the 2009 Sigma-Aldrich Graduate Student Innovation Award recipients.

Dr. Ben McCall has won the prestigious 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

John Hartwig was selected to receive the prestigious 2009/2010 Joseph Chatt Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry for his highly original research in organometallic catalysis.

Dr. John Hartwig of Chemistry has just won the 2009 Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award for his work in the "Development of New Practical Catalytic Reactions Including Efficient C-H Bond...

Dan Palacios, a student in the Burke Group , has been selected to receive the 2008 Robert M. Scarborough Award from the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

Mark Chen, a fourth year graduate student in the White Group , has recently been awarded the 2008 Excellence in Chemistry Award from Roche Pharmaceuticals.

Huimin Zhao has been selected as a recipient of the 2008 Young Investigator Award from the Division of Biochemical Technology of the American Chemical Society, which is sponsored by Genetech, Inc.

Christina White, in addition to the numerous industrial awards recently announced - the Pfizer Award for Creativity in Organic Chemistry, the Bristol Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic...

Martin Gruebele, the James R. Eiszner Endowed Professor of Chemistry has been awarded the 2008 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences.

Professor Christina White was awarded the 2008-2009 Pfizer Award for Creativity in Organic Chemistry. This award is given annually for members of the organic chemistry community who have...

Steve Granick, Founder Professor of Engineering , and professor of materials science and engineering , of chemistry , of chemical and biomolecular engineering , and of physics , was awarded the...

Professor John Hartwig of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently awarded the 2007 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences - Chemistry.

Professor Andrzej Wieckowski of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently awarded the 2006 Gold Medal of the International Society of Electrochemistry.

Neil Kelleher will be awarded the 2006 Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist at the March National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia.

John Hartwig will receive the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia in March of 2006.

Professor Ryan C. Bailey of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently awarded the 2006 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award.

Professor David Gin is slated to receive this year's Horace S. Isbell Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry at the September 2006 American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco.

Neil Kelleher will receive the 2006 Arthur F. Findeis Award at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia in March.

John Hartwig will be awarded the 2006 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia in March.

Scott Denmark will be awarded the Yamada-Koga Prize on Oct. 27 at the 16th Symposium on Optically Active Compounds in Tokyo.

Joseph P. Gerdt, an undergraduate researcher with Scott Silverman, was awarded a $1,000 Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research. Sigma Xi is an international honor society of science and engineering...

Professor of Biochemistry (Chemistry affliate), Stephen Sligar has been selected to receive a research award from the Human Frontiers Science Program .

On June 13, 2005, two UIUC researchers, Neil Kelleher and ChengXiang Zhai (Computer Science) were named recipients of the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation...

Michael Arnold has been selected as one of 10 recipients of a $35,000 Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.

New faculty member, Martin Burke, has been awarded a 2005 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award. The award is highly competitive and provides an unrestricted research grant of $50,000.