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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...

A group of undergraduate and graduate students joined Tepora Su'a, assistant director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Chemical Sciences, to represent the Department of Chemistry and...

Professor Jonathan V. Sweedler has been named the acting head of the Department of Chemistry following the announcement that previous head, Professor Catherine J. Murphy, will serve as interim...

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 Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry will begin the job Aug. 16.

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...

The Chemistry at Illinois graduate, who is the Chief Inclusion Officer at Dow, delivered the keynote address during the Department of Chemistry's May 2023 Convocation Ceremony on the University of...

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...

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.

Students and postdoctoral researchers from the departments of chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering and the Molecule Maker Lab at UIUC met with Urbana middle school students to build...

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...

With support from the local ACS chapter and the Department of Chemistry, WCC was officially founded in October 2005, and today, the graduate student organization continues to fulfill its mission to...

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...

Students can apply now for this short-term summer program that offers undergraduates the opportunity to learn about natural products in a tropical region of the world and gain a new cultural...

The annual fall conference features oral and poster presentations highlighting the research of undergraduate students in the chemical sciences at UIUC and other institutions and also features keynote...

​​​​​​​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...

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 Department of Chemistry's newest group of St. Elmo Brady scholars — Alexis Duncan, Kaya Moody, and Kyla Duke from Howard University — just finished 10 weeks of a summer research experience in...

An Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow, Ben Snyder is excited to join the Illinois chemistry faculty where he can tackle some of society’s most pressing challenges, including green catalysis and...

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...

The daughter of Samoan parents and the first of seven children to attend college, Tepora Su’a knows firsthand the challenges of navigating higher education as a STEM major and first-generation...

In a report published in Nature Communications, the team behind the campuswide collaboration, which included researchers from the Department of Chemistry, details the innovations in modeling, saliva...

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.

The history of the Department of Chemistry's Noyes Laboratory is rooted in fire, discovery, public service, and kindness.

The college issued a call for LAS Student Success Initiative proposals earlier this year and received a number of applications. Two projects in the Department of Chemistry will receive funding.

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 annual Willis H. Flygare Memorial Lecture in Physcial Chemistry featured Naomi Halas, a Rice University professor who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plasmonics.

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...

A new paper published in 2021 in the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, a publication of the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, includes new information about St. Elmo Brady, the first...

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

Alumnus Dan Hanus honors the good work and deeds of Rebecca "Becky" Simon, his advisor in the School of Chemical Sciences at Illinois when he was a student, by establishing a scholarship in...

Organized by the Department of Chemistry's ACS Women Chemist Committee, this year's annual event will be virtual and feature a poster session, two seminar speakers and a reception for networking...

The exhibit opened in the summer of 2020 and celebrates the invention of MRI by late UIUC chemistry faculty member Paul Lauterbur along with the foundational research that started on campus in the...

A new program in the Department of Chemistry serving chemistry majors who identify as African American, LatinX, or Native American offers a combination of monthly professional development workshops,...

FUTURE-MINDS-QB, a bridge program streamlining a path from a master’s degree at Fisk University, a historically Black university in Nashville, to a doctoral degree at University of Illinois Urbana-...

Meredith Sellers (PhD, '11, Seebauer), a UIUC Chemical Engineering alum and technical consultant for the engineering and scientific consulting firm, Exponent, will share her...

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...

The St. Elmo Brady's Postdoctoral Inclusive Excellence Symposium begins June 4 with postdoctoral researcher Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez from the University of California, Berkeley, and continues June 11...

A total of 62 students comprise this graduate student class (61 PhD candidates and one Master of Science in Teaching Chemistry). That total also includes two student deferrals from Fall 2020. That...

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...

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,...

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.

The UIUC chapter of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers has organized the Feb. 19-20, 2021, virtual conference that features Professor...

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...

A theoretical chemist, Nick Jackson joins the Chemistry at Illinois faculty from the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago where he was an assistant scientist in the Materials Science Division and...

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...

A group of Illinois chemistry graduate students successfully demonstrated chemistry experiments for 32 Champaign and Urbana middle school students via Zoom during an all-virtual edition of the annual...

Professor Christian Ray strives to create an inclusive classroom environment to help all students succeed, including those who face physical and other challenges by connecting them with support...

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...

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.

Josh Vura-Weis, a faculty member and the Department of Chemistry's associate head of major projects, was promoted in June 2020 to associate professor of chemistry.

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

The Department of Chemistry hosted a public virtual event on May 29, 2020, featuring faculty members Martin Burke and Yi Lu, who each gave presentations about their COVID-19 projects.

Chemistry at Illinois hosted a virtual meeting on July 30, 2020, allowing new head Cathy Murphy and previous head Martin Gruebele to have a conversation with alumni, friends and faculty about the...

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 Department of Chemistry has lost a friend and supporter with the passing of Carolyn “Connie” Springborn who shared the same generous spirit as her husband, alumnus Robert Springborn (BS, '51)....

Chemistry professors Martin Burke, Scott Denmark and Christina White and affiliate faculty members Huimin Zhao and Charles M. Schroeder are part of a multi-institutional team awarded a five-year $20...

Chemistry professors Martin Burke and Paul Hergenrother helped develop the direct saliva test that has unique features, enabling fast and frequent testing on a large scale. They are now working...

New professor brings his state-of-the-art research using defects in diamond for quantum-enhanced nanoscale microscopy to the Department of Chemistry and the Illinois Quantum Information Science...

Developed on campus and now available for download, the innovative Safer Illinois app provides users with personalized coronavirus-testing results and reminders of scheduled testing, along with a...

The innovative saliva-based testing developed by the SHIELD team on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus is garnering national media attention as the FDA grants Emergency Use...

The long-term goal of this new program in the Department of Chemistry is to provide full fellowships for fourth-year graduate students. Alumnus Peixin He (PhD, ’85, Faulkner) and Xiaoming Chen have...

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.

Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test scores were already optional for graduate school admission, but now the department has completely eliminated the scores from the process.

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have improved the technique of frontal polymerization, where a small amount of heat triggers a moving reaction wave that...

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

As the head of Technical Development Asia Pacific for BASF in Singapore, alumna Sindhu Easwara Menon leads the technical service and application development teams for plastics applications.

Professor Rohit Bhargava's team at the Beckman Institute has developed new techniques that improve the noise associated with nanoscale chemical imaging using atomic force microscopy. The improvements...

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...

First-generation college student from Ghana in Western Africa chose Illinois to pursue his PhD, because of the inter-disciplinary and cutting-edge research conducted by the faculty in the Department...

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.

More than 60 years ago, Eunice S. Wu left her home in Taiwan for the United States to study chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, following in the footsteps of her father who...

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...

In the next academic year, two new junior faculty members will be joining the Department of Chemistry. Mikael Backlund will start this fall after completing his post-doctoral work at the Harvard-...

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...

Elizabeth P. Rogers, a former Department of Chemistry faculty member who retired in 1988 after 25 years of teaching general chemistry courses, has died at the age of 100.

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.

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.

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...

The university and Department of Chemistry are closely monitoring developments related to COVID-19. Click on the heading above to find a link to the campus website with the latest updates,...

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.

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...

The Vice President of Research, Development and Engineering at Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company, recently visited the Department of Chemistry for the Alumni in Industry lecture and discussed how his...

The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign no longer requires Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores for admission, a decision finalized in the summer of 2019....

Nobel Laureate E.J. Corey, who served on the U of I chemistry faculty from 1951 to 1959, was recently featured in a special News-Gazette series, “University of Illinois: 150 Years and Beyond.”

Iris Stovall, double Illinois alumna and longtime Department of Chemistry academic staff member, passed away on September 19, 2019. Dr. Stovall received her M.S. (1975) and Ph.D. (1978) from 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...

Twenty years in the making, a new leading-edge medical imaging research collaboration is becoming a reality.

The inorganic and materials chemistry divisions of the department have rescheduled the weekly seminar time from 4:00 PM to 3:30 PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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...

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...

We are excited to announce that Dr. Mei Shen will join our analytical chemistry faculty and Dr. Angad Mehta will join our chemical biology faculty this summer.

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...

Three University of Illinois chemistry students have won the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.  Launched in 1952, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF)...

Professor Catherine J. Murphy, Larry Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry, and Chancellor Robert Jones have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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...

The Illini Success initiative, a campus-wide effort to gather career-related information about recently graduated bachelor’s degree recipients, studies alumni within six months of graduation.

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...

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...

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...

Chemistry professor Liviu Mirica, who came to Illinois this semester from Washington University, is one of seven researchers who were brought to the university as part of the President’s...

St. Elmo Brady became the first African-American to earn a PhD in chemistry in the United States, graduating from the University of Illinois in 1916. On Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, the American Chemical...

I have to pass on some sad news to the department:  I just learned that our long-time colleague Andrzej Wieckowski passed away yesterday. His family’s wish is to have the service and for...

The Chemistry Graduate Diversity Office recently received a $5,000 grant from the PPG Industries Foundation towards diversity and inclusion initiatives for under-represented minority (URM) graduate...

Theodore “Ted” Brown, the founding director of the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, celebrated his 90th birthday with family, friends and former colleagues during a two-day...

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...

As medicine becomes more precise in delivering treatment targeted to specific areas of the body, the drug used is just one critical part of the treatment. How can chemotherapy drugs directly impact a...

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

In this special edition of our Getting to Know series, Dr. Lloyd Munjanja shares about his educational experiences as a minority and discusses the challenges and opportunities of his new role as the...

What does it take to have a positive impact on the human experience? It requires bold ideas and the freedom to pursue innovative solutions.

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

Dr. Qing Cao (Phd, '09, Rogers) joins the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as part of the UI’s distinguished faculty hiring program.

With approval from the Board of Trustees, Prof. Liviu Mirica will join the Illinois Chemistry faculty in January 2019 as the William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of Chemistry. He is currently a...

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.

Beckman Institute Postodoctoral Fellow James Checco coauthored a paper with, among others, Professor Jonathan Sweedler. The Beckman Institute's article "Unusual Modification of Neuropeptides Play...

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.

Chuck Wallbaum will retire at the end of April with over 14 years of service to the School of Chemical Sciences.

From Jonathan Sweedler, Director, School of Chemical Sciences: I am sad to report that our friend and colleague, Yi-Gui Gao, passed away on Friday, March 30, 2018.

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on Wednesday, March 29, 2018 to commemorate the new state-of-the-art Center for Theoretical Chemistry.

The Department of Chemistry once again ranks sixth overall in US News and World Report 2019 graduate school rankings , and top ten in the analytical, inorganic, organic, physical, and theoretical...

A new state-of-the art hub for theoretical chemists at Illinois has been completed. The Center for Theoretical Chemistry modernizes space in Noyes Lab. “Bringing theoretical chemists together in one...

A "snowman" is ignited while two people juggle flaming "snowballs". A silver mirror appears inside a large glass flask. Is it magic, or is it chemistry? It's ... chemistry! If you want to see why...

With help from an endowed chairship, Paul Hergenrother is improving antibiotics. Read More>...

Illinois students participated in the first Chemistry study abroad program to Costa Rica.

The gallery features art from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Department of Chemistry. Visitors to Champaign-Urbana’s Willard Airport can now enjoy an eye-...

Ana Peinetti a researcher in Bioengineering from Argentina, will join the laboratory of Yi Lu as a 2017 Pew Latin American Fellow.

The department is pleased to announce the endowment of a new annual lectureship in materials chemistry. Dr. Jonathan L. Sessler has generously funded the Suslick-Sessler Lectureship in Materials...

The department will offer three online summer courses during Summer Session II - June 11th-August 2nd, 2018.

Gretchen Adams received the 2016-2017 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff at the LAS Teaching Excellence Awards Ceremony.

The Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching recognizes sustained excellence in and innovative approaches to undergraduate teaching and contributions beyond classroom instruction that...

When students return to classes today for the spring semester, they might not recognize their old classrooms. Years in the making, the Chemistry Annex renovations are complete.

The research of the chemistry department is highlighted in this LAS News Article.

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

The multi-institutional Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology received word that it will receive nearly $20 million in renewable support over the next five years from the National Science Foundation...

The national SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science) organization will recognize 13 of its chapters for outstanding achievements at the 2015 SACNAS...

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) recently announced the first 25 selections for their 100 Years of LAS Gallery of Excellence.

Scientists have sequenced the genomes of nearly 6,900 organisms, but they know the functions of only about half of the protein-coding genes thus far discovered. Now a multidisciplinary effort...

The Holiday Chemistry Magic Show was featured on YouTube and on the Popular Science web site. See the...

Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a simple and inexpensive molecular technique that replaces an expensive atomic force microscope for studying what happens to small molecules when...

The state finals of the Illinois Science Olympiad will be held Saturday (April 25) at the University of Illinois. The event, which begins at 8 a.m., is part of a national competition in which middle...

The National Science Foundation announced this month that it is funding a new Physics Frontiers Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Center for the Physics of Living Cells is...

Chad Rienstra has led a team of researchers at UIUC to receive a NIH High End Instrumentation grant for $1,936,449, which will be used to purchase a high-field solid-state NMR spectrometer to be...

The road to discovering new pharmaceuticals and other vital biotechnological products just got a little smoother.

With more top ten rankings, it's easy to see why Chemistry at UIUC is leading the nation in research and education. With Analytical Chemistry ranked third in the nation, and Inorganic, Organic,...

On August 8, 2007, the National Science Board (NSB) authorized the National Science Foundation (NSF) to award the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign a grant totaling $208 million, to be used...

An innovative strategy of mixing lipids and nanoparticles to produce new drug and agricultural materials and delivery vehicles has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at...

UIUC Physics Professor Klaus Schulten and collaborators at Illinois and the University of California at Irvine have used the computing power of the University of Illinois' National Center for...

The Winter 2005 Research Corporation Newsletter contains an article discussing the reasons for the large number of Cottrell Scholars at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (...