Faculty

Chemistry professor Martin Gruebele and composer and software developer Carla Scaletti used sound to investigate hydrogen-bond dynamics during the protein-folding process.

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.

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.”

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...

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

A longtime professor and administrator in the Department of Chemistry at Illinois, John P. Hummel, 92, of Champaign, passed away on Feb. 15, 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....

For the first time ever, CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) is expanding to the United States and Illinois chemistry Prof. Nick Jackson is leading the team organizing the...

Prof. Jackson and other early career scientists are working on accelerating progress in automated instrumentation and artificial intelligence in chemical science laboratories through...

On March 6, the 2024 LAS Dean's Distinguished Lecture will feature Professor Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten talking about her pioneering research into constructing 4D models of a living minimal cell.

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...

The research team led by chemistry Prof. Wilfred van der Donk investigated epilancin 15X, a naturally occurring antibiotic that is produced by bacteria and displays antimicrobial power against some...

Led by chemistry Prof. Liviu M. Mirica, the team's research will utilize the Beckman Institute’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging Laboratory and Molecular Imaging Laboratory to develop diagnostic tools and...

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,...

Professor Charles Schroeder, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, was recently featured in a profile story by the Materials Research Lab on the Illinois campus.

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...

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

The National Science Foundation grant will support a research team that includes Illinois chemistry Prof. Prashant Jain. They will develop new materials to separate and recover rare-earth elements...

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.

A $30 million NSF grant supports the new center at the Beckman Institute, where Zaida Luthey-Schulten and Martin Gruebele will lead team members, who also include chemistry professors Angad Mehta and...

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...

Illinois researchers in collaboration with a Swiss pharmaceutical company have developed a machine learning model that eliminates the need for extensive experimentation to determine the best...

Rudolph A. (Rudy) Marcus was a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1964 to 1978 and received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1992 for contributions to the...

In Nature, Illinois chemistry professor Prashant Jain explains "an important confounding effect" in unraveling the recent mystery surrounding LK-99, a compound of copper, lead, phosphorus and oxygen...

Majed Fataftah and Anastasia C. Manesis are excited to begin teaching, mentoring, and research in the new academic year. Fataftah will utilize synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry methods to...

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...

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...

The professor in Chemistry at Illinois discusses the future of electrochemistry and the importance to the field of collaboration with analytical scientists as well as materials scientists, physicists...

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...

Chemistry professors Liviu Mirica and Scott Silverman have been selected to receive the latest round of support from the Discovery Fund, which was established in 2018 by chemistry alums Ving Lee (PhD...

One of the projects, led by instructional faculty member Elise McCarren, will continue a pilot program that supports the success and retention of underrepresented, first-generation, and rural LAS...

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.

Christy F. Landes and Stephan Link, both professors of chemistry and electrical and computer engineering, are joining the chemistry faculty and transitioning their research groups to the University...

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...

The Cancer Center at Illinois recently talked with Professor Jonathan Sweedler, James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry, who is a research member with the ...

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...

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...

A professor of inorganic, materials and physical chemistry, Snyder's primary research goal as he launches his independent career at Illinois will be to develop spectroscopically-guided synthetic...

A long-time runner and biker, the Illinois chemistry professor was supported in the competition in Switzerland by a crew that included Lloyd Munjanja, an assistant dean in the College of LAS who is...

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.

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...

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 at Illinois faculty members are involved in five of the nine of interdisciplinary research projects to receive the 2022 CCIL grant funding.

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,...

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...

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from UIUC and other institutions come together for a brief, yet intensive electrochemistry training program created by UIUC chemistry professor Joaquín...

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...

Olshansky will study a new approach to converting sunlight into chemical potential energy with this support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program, which is intended to...

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.

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...

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...

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...

A member of the Illinois chemistry faculty since 1964, colleagues and alumni share their memories of the Scotland-born professor who was known not only as an accomplished crystallographer and for his...

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.

The Journal of the American Chemical Society’s Editor-in-Chief Erick Carreira interviews Scott Denmark, the Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry at Illinois, about his vision for the future of...

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.

Chemistry professor Martin Burke is the associate dean for research at Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the world’s first engineering-based medical school, which represents a new concept in the...

Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology used advanced computational methodologies to successfully simulate the capsid disassembly step...

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...

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...

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...

With more than 10 years of experience as an Illinois chemistry lecturer, Tina Huang is the department's new Director of General Chemistry, a mostly administrative role responsible for the loads of...

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.

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 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...

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...

Professor Wilfred van der Donk and other researchers have solved a decades-long mystery of an ‘orphan’ family of proteins called LanCLs that are found in all living organisms but whose function was...

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...

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. 

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...

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...

Using a PET imaging agent designed by chemistry Professor John Katzenellenbogen, a new clinical study shows the ability to identify which breast cancer patients are likely to benefit from a hormone...

Several chemistry faculty members are among the dozens of professors in the College of LAS who rank among the top 100,000 most-cited researchers since the mid-1990s, according to a new study based on...

A research team that included affiliate chemistry faculty members Huimin Zhao and Paul Selvin used single-molecule imaging to compare the genome-editing tools CRISPR-Cas9 and TALEN. Their experiments...

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...

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...

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,...

A proof-of-concept study conducted by chemistry professor Liviu Mirica and colleagues offers new evidence that copper isotopes can be used to detect the amyloid-beta protein deposits that form in the...

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...

Illinois chemistry and physics professor is one of 14 Black physicists interviewed by magazine, Physics Today, the flagship publication of the American Institute of Physics.

With $4.5 million raised so far, the start-up company Lassogen moves one step closer to demonstrating the power of lasso peptides for treating human diseases such as cancer and autoimmune disorders....

Chemical & Engineering News recently highlighted the development of the COVID-19...

Chancellor Robert J. Jones announced five committees that have been charged with identifying steps to create a campus free of structural and system racism and bias.

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...

The publication's series focusing on eight "Holy Grails" of chemistry explains how the White research group's work is one of a group of discoveries that has “contributed to a blossoming of...

University of Illinois Chancellor Robert Jones and chemistry professor Martin Burke, the leader of the team that developed and implemented the university’s COVID-19 testing, were recently...

In a Q&A interview with Nature, chemistry's Martin Burke explains how he got involved in leading a team, that includes chemistry's Paul Hergenrother, to create the university's testing program...

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 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.

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.

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...

Originally from Mumbai, India, Professor Prashant Jain’s path to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign began to take shape when he was a young boy with a natural curiosity for the world...

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...

​​​​​​​Capturing the ultrafast dynamics of electrons has been a long-standing dream of scientists. That dream became reality when researchers in the lab of Renske M. van der Veen, professor of...

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...

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...

A research team, including chemistry's Jonathan Sweedler, has developed a mass spectrometry-based screening technique to rapidly profile certain fatty acids and identified new genetically-engineered...

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

The Sweedler Research Group has developed a new technique to measure the amount and distribution of lipids in rat brain samples. The technique can have potential applications in determining how the...

When tested in brain cells and in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, a new compound significantly reduced the number of amyloid plaques in the brain, lessened brain inflammation and diminished...

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.

In early March, when the COVID-19 pandemic began shuttering businesses and schools across the United States, Chris Brooke wondered how he would teach his classes online. As the virus spread with...

Whether designing and producing face shields for healthcare workers, creating components for virus test kits or developing new widely deployable testing methods to better detect COVID-19, researchers...

For 25 years, the Soai Reaction has endured as one of the most mysterious reactions in organic chemistry, but Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry Scott Denmark and graduate student Soumitra...

The Bhargava group has recently obtained a grant to collaborate with researchers at IIT-Delhi, a leading technology-focused educational institution in India. The grant will help develop tools to...

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...

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.

Researchers have developed the first computational model of a human cell and simulated its behavior for 15 minutes – the longest time achieved for a biological system of this complexity.

A breakthrough by an Illinois Chemistry team of researchers could enable medicinal chemists to more easily harness “magic methylation,” a transformation that can significantly boost the potency of...

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

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...

A new study from the Schroeder and Moore groups at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides an unprecedented look at how monomer sequence affects charge transport in precisely defined...

Scientists are striving to understand quantum phenomena, with hopes of designing materials and structures that could capture light and turn it into chemical energy, or even make reliable quantum...

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.

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...

Illinois researchers used a suite of imaging methods to create the first holistic picture of peripheral artery disease recovery. Novel biomedical advances that show promise in the lab often fall...

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...

As an undergraduate in chemistry at the University of Illinois, Dr. Jeanne Hankett (BS, ’10, chemistry) found her drive for analytical chemistry working in the lab of Professor Andy Gewirth, doing...

By adding infrared capability to the standard optical microscope, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hope to bring cancer diagnosis into the digital era. Pairing infrared...

A microscopic animal produces a compound that can paralyze parasitic worms that have infected over 200 million people worldwide, an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of...

The Chan group has recently developed a probe named CoxFluor, which is able to distinguish between Cyclooxygenase-2, an enzyme that plays a major role in driving the progression of cancer, and...

Composites made from self-assembling inorganic materials are valued for their unique strength and thermal, optical and magnetic properties. However, because self-assembly can be difficult to control...

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...

Research from the University of Illinois and the University of California, Davis has chemists one step closer to recreating nature’s most efficient machinery for generating hydrogen gas. This new...

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...

To alleviate migraine pain, people are commonly treated with opioids. But, while opioid treatment can provide temporary pain relief for episodic migraines, prolonged use can increase the frequency...

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...

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have made it possible to observe and simulate the self-assembly of crystalline materials at a much higher...

Scientists have simulated every atom of a light-harvesting structure in a photosynthetic bacterium that generates energy for the organism. The simulated organelle behaves just like its counterpart in...

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.

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...

A few months ago, a new term cropped up on Twitter to describe an all-too-common phenomenon at academic institutions: a dude wall. In science departments, these walls honor historical...

Professor Josh Vura-Weis was recently selected as the winner of the 2019 Inter-American Photochemical Society (I-APS) Young Investigator Award, sponsored by the Journal of Photochemistry and...

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...

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

With the goal of advancing the understanding of the neurochemistry of addiction, the Neuroproteomics and Neurometabolomics Center on Cell-Cell Signaling at the University of Illinois, has...

The Discovery Fund, established in 2018 and supported by a generous gift from chemistry alumni Ving Lee (Ph.D., ‘75, Rinehart) and May Lee (Ph.D., ‘76, Rinehart), provides funding for innovative...

Professor Greg Girolami and Dr. Vera Mainz organized a symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table, held last week in conjunction with the American Chemical Society’s national...

Steven Zimmerman, graduate student Ephraim Morado, and their colleagues are attempting to create a more environmentally-friendly form of polyurethane, a frequently-used polymer that is difficult to...

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...

A collaboration between the Sweedler and the Rodriguez-Zas labs at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Pradhan lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago has identified genes...

The Pan Research Group has recently developed a probe made of nanoparticles by crosslinking biliverdin molecules, which are pigments that exist naturally in the body. This probe will be able to...

The National Science Foundation is funding the new Center for Synthesizing Quantum Coherence (CSQC) as a Phase I Center for Chemical Innovation. Led by Duke, and featuring distinguished...

Originally from Central Mexico, Professor Joaquín Rodríguez-López grew up in Monterrey, the third-largest city in Mexico, famous for its industrial centers and mountains. He attended Tecnológico de...

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...

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...

Microbes are master chefs of the biomolecular world; collectively, they harbor the ability to produce a vast array of unknown substances, some of which may have therapeutic or other useful properties...

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...

Beckman researchers across three labs will collaborate on a new project that will receive $400,000 from the National Institutes of Health. The Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21)...

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...

During the week of May 13-17, the Department of Chemistry Joint Safety Team (JST) and Department of Chemistry Graduate Student Advisory Committee (DCGSAC) co-hosted the 3rd Annual Safety Week.

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...

Chemists at the University of Illinois have successfully produced fuels using water, carbon dioxide and visible light through artificial photosynthesis. By converting carbon dioxide into more complex...

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,...

A fortuitous conversation between two University of Illinois scientists has opened a new line of communication between biomedical researchers and the tissues they study. The new findings, reported in...

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.

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,...

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.

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...

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...

An approved drug normally used to treat fungal infections could also do the job of a protein channel that is missing or defective in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis, operating as a...

For centuries, chemists have been preoccupied with the question of how molecular structure relates to function, be it an antibiotic, fragrance, flame retardant, pigment, or vitamin—essentially, every...

Alison Fout explores the power to save images. She is researching new catalysts, as an associate professor in chemistry, that could one day solve a growing list of environmental, biological, and...

Mei Shen will receive the Campus Excellence in Guiding Undergraduate Research Award of 2019. The Celebration of Teaching Excellence event will include an awards ceremony and reception on April 11th....

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.

The Carle Illinois College of Medicine wants Champaign county residents from all walks of life to submit their ideas for improving health care. The goal of Health Make-A-Thon program is to...

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...

Marina Philip is a PhD candidate studying analytical chemistry in the Jonathan Sweedler group. With a background in journalism, Marina’s extracurricular efforts focus on outreach, diversity, and...

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...

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...

Chemistry professor M. Christina White and graduate student Jinpeng Zhao developed a new catalyst that has the potential to advance the pace and efficiency of drug development. 

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...

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

The gold nanocrystals created by Catherine Murphy carry huge potential The gold nanoparticles created by Catherine Murphy, the Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry, range in size from 5...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A new study, published in Nature Communications, is from research by Wilfred van der Donk and a group of chemists from the University of Illinois and Harvard University.

Professor Lisa Olshansky joined the Department of Chemistry this Fall, 2018. She is a faculty member in the Inorganic chemistry area. ...

Chemistry professor Yi Lu, left, and graduate student Evan Mirts have designed a new synthetic enzyme that reduces the compound sulfite to sulfide – a notoriously complex multistep chemical reaction...

Zaida “Zan” Luthey-Schulten is an international leader in computational biophysics and bioinformatics.  She has been selected as a Fellow of the Biophysical Society in 2019. Zan’s early work,...

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.

Martin Burke is the co-founder of Ambys Medicines, which has licensed technology developed in his lab

Professor Cathy Murphy and alumna Sara Skrabalak (PhD, '07, Suslick) are featured on the ACS website celebrating women in nanotechnology.

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

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.

Chemistry professor Jefferson Chan, graduate students Chelsea Anorma and Thomas Bearrood, and postdoctoral researcher Jamila Hedhli, developed a molecular probe that can tag and track elusive cancer...

The Beckman Institute has been publishing a video series called "Future Environments" (#scifutures). In the third installment, Rohit Bhargava, a professor of bioengineering, presented a video, which...

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.

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.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Makers of cars, planes, buses – anything that needs strong, lightweight and heat resistant parts – are poised to benefit from a new manufacturing process that requires only a quick...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Biochemists at the University of Illinois have isolated a protein supercomplex from a bacterial membrane that, like a battery, generates a voltage across the bacterial membrane. The...

Professor Prashant Jain and his colleagues report they can use light to drive two-electron chemical reactions, enhancing a method for converting CO2 into hydrocarbons.

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...

Recent work from the White Group on a new manganese catalyzed benzylic C—H amination for late-stage C—H functionalization was published in Nature Chemistry last week and was also highlighted in C...

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.

The first-of-its-kind Molecule Maker Lab, part of the Medical Maker Lab at Illinois, will empower physician-innovators at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, and citizen scientists from around...

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.

We are excited to announce that Dr. Lisa Olshansky will join our inorganic chemistry area this summer.

It is with great sadness that we must report the passing of our emeritus colleague William H. 'Bill' Pirkle, an extraordinarily humble and gifted chemist who made a difference not just in his field...

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...

Researchers say they can now produce a vast library of unique cyclic compounds, some with the capacity to interrupt specific protein-protein interactions that play a role in disease. The new...

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...

Professor Burke has been named University Scholar, a program that recognizes excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. Read more...

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

Jonathan Sweedler receives an American Diabetes Association Pathway Visionary Award for his research project titled "Unraveling Diabetes Progression a Cell at a Time."

Jeffrey S. Moore, a professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been named a Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair. Martin...

He was the inventor of an anti-cancer drug. Ted Taylor was on the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois in the early 1950's. He went on to spend the rest of his career...

  Timothy Fan and Paul Hergenrother have created PAC-1, a new drug to combat brain cancer.  ...

Yi Lu, the Jay and Ann Schenck Professor of Chemistry is one of five Illinois researchers who rank among world's most influential. Read More...

Wilfred van der Donk believes universities will lead the fight against bacterial resistance to drugs....

Paul C. Lauterbur had a building built especially for his MRI machine. He won the Nobel Prize in 2003 for his pioneering work in the development of it. Now he was inducted (...

Professor Jeff Chan and his graduate student, Hailey Knox have developed a new small-molecule probe that can be used for the detection of hypoxia in deep tissue using photoacoustic imaging.

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer & Cathy Murphy published papers in the special issue honoring the 150th birthday of Marie Curie. November 7th in The Journal of Physical Chemistry (JPC), including...

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.

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

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

Alexander Scheeline, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and President of SpectroClick Inc. has been awarded Honorary Membership in the Society for...

Lydia Kisley, a Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow, and colleagues including Martin Grueble and Deborah Leckband, recently used Fast Relaxation Imaging (FReI) to investigate the...

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.

The University of Illinois recently welcomed a noteworthy alumnus of the College of LAS. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work returned to campus for a tour of several state-of-the-art research...

Martin Burke's research team has demonstrated that a small molecule can transport iron in human cells and live animals when proteins that normally do the same job are missing, a condition that often...

Kenneth S. Suslick has been appointed the 76th Eastman Professor at the University of Oxford for the academic year 2018-2019. The Eastman Professorship is...

Paul Hergenrother's team reports that they now know how to build a molecular Trojan horse that can penetrate gram-negative bacteria, solving a problem that for decades has stalled the development of...

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...

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,...

Steven C. Zimmerman spoke about his drug discovery efforts for myotonic dystrophy at the David Y. Gin Symposium. This biannual symposium...

Scott Denmark has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Catherine Jones Murphy named 2017 Materials Research Society Fellow.

David Sarlah named a 2017 Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Scholar by the College of LAS. This award is granted to faculty based on scholarly...

Martin Burke proposes billion-dollar project to synthesize most of the hundreds of thousands of known organic natural products in search of new medicines. The...

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...

Martin Gruebele will be awarded the 2017 Nakanishi Prize at the Plenary ACS National Award Ceremony for his landmark spectroscopic studies showing how proteins initiate their folding on...

Douglas Mitchell's research group has created a new bioinformatics tool, RODEO, that promises to capture the breadth of microbial biosynthetic potential.

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

Fuel cells have long held promise as power sources, but low efficiency has created obstacles to realizing that promise. Researchers at the University of Illinois and collaborators have identified the...

New program boosts junior faculty for outstanding teaching and research. Alison was chosen for her development of sustainable catalysts for use in industry and her exemplary and innovative teaching...

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

Yi Lu and Catherine Murphy have been named to the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list for 2016. Read Full Story

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

Jonathan V. Sweedler, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the School of Chemical Sciences, received a NIH grant for his BRAIN Initiative: Integrated Multimodal Analysis of Cell and Circuit-...

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

Illinois professors Nancy Sottos and Andrew Gerwith developed a method to comprehensively measure the mechanical stress and strain in lithium-ion batteries. It revealed a point of stress in charging...

Chemists led by University of Illinois professor M. Christina White and graduate student Thomas Osberger found that two small-molecule iron catalysts can oxidize chiral amino acids and peptides to an...

Four University of Illinois chemists, Prashant K. Jain, Jeffrey S. Moore, Catherine Jones Murphy and Ralph G. Nuzzo were among the most highly cited authors as determined by Elsevier Scopus Data....

Clinical trials of the anti-cancer agent PAC-1 are continuing to expand, thanks to a $7 million angel investment from an anonymous contributor who originally invested $4 million to help get the...

Paul Hergenrother is the recipient of this year's UCB-Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry. He...

Suslick's sensors monitored pollutant exposure of Disney original artwork, like this 1928 'Steamboat Willie' celluloid, during a trip to China © Disney Enterprises, Inc., Courtesy of Walt Disney...

Jeffrey Moore, the Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry and professor of materials science and engineering, has been named interim director of the Beckman Institute , effective April 16.

Kami Hull and Josh Vura-Weis have both been selected to receive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards and grants from the National Science Foundation to support their research program.

Members of the laboratory of Prof. Scott Silverman have identified synthetic DNA enzymes that cleave amide bonds, which are fundamental components of proteins. These DNA enzymes were identified by in...

Douglas Mitchell is the recipient of the 2016 National Fresenius Award. He was cited...

A new class of small, thin electronic sensors can monitor temperature and pressure within the skull – crucial health parameters after a brain injury or surgery – then melt away when they are no...

I am sad to relate that Professor of Chemistry Douglas Einar Applequist, 85, died at his home in Champaign, Illinois, on Saturday, January 30, 2016.

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...

Professor McCall is being honored for his research in the development of ultrasensitive, ultrahigh resolution molecular ion spectroscopy methods that when combined with astronomical spectroscopy...

University of Illinois chemists found that a number of drugs approved to treat various conditions also have antibiotic properties.

The 2015 Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award for Leadership in Diversity was given to Professor Steven Zimmerman. This honor was in recognition of his...

Graduate students Long Luu and Lien Nguyen, with U. of I. chemistry professor Steven Zimmerman, developed drug compounds that target three pathways associated with myotonic dystrophy type 1.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is honoring 347 new fellows this year for their "scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications".

Kenneth Suslick is one of eight 2015 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Senior Scientist Mentor Awardees. The title for his research is "The Optoelectronic Nose: An Adventure in Molecular Recognition...

Researchers at the Beckman Institute have received more than $2 million dollars over three years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative in order to develop an analytical...

Searching for the precise, complexly folded three-dimensional structure of a protein can be like hacking through a jungle without a map: a long, intensive process with uncertain direction. University...

Alison Fout is one of four early-career women scientists who received $50,000 grants to kick-start their academic research careers 15 October in an awards ceremony at the American Association for the...

Chemists have long believed that inserting nitrogen – a beneficial ingredient for making many pharmaceuticals and other biologically active molecules – into a carbon-hydrogen bond requires a trade-...

It took two postdoctoral researchers, a lab technician, four undergraduates and their faculty advisors only four years – a blink of an eye in pharmaceutical terms – to scour a collection of 10,000...

The Society’s highest honor, this annual award recognizes lifetime achievements and exceptional contributions to the field of endocrinology.

The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry of Japan honors Christina White by her selection as a 2016 Mukaiyama Award winner. The purpose of the award is to...

Physical chemistry professor, Linn Belford died August 14 at the age of 83. Rue Linn Belford was born in St. Louis, Missouri on December 13, 1931 to the late Rue L. Belford and Fannie Belford (neé...

Congratulations to Professor Ken Schweizer, recipient of the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids from the American Chemical Society. The annual award...

Professor Prashant K. Jain has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation CAREER award. Each year, the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)...

Jeffrey Moore has been named the Edward Leete awardee for 2015. This biennial award is presented at the ACS fall national meeting by the Organic...

Martin Gruebele and Marinda Li Wu were announced as 2015 American Chemical Society Fellows in the July 13 issue of Chemical & Engineering News.

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...

New compounds that specifically attack fungal infections without attacking human cells could transform treatment for such infections and point the way to targeted medicines that evade antibiotic...

Douglas_Mitchell has been named as a recipient of one of this year's Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards. Criteria for selection include "an independent body...

The 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Applied Inorganic Chemistry Award winner is Yi Lu.

Technology in common household humidifiers could enable the next wave of high-tech medical imaging and targeted medicine, thanks to a new method for making tiny silicone microspheres developed by...

The Journal of Physical Chemistry and the ACS Physical Chemistry Division have announced that Prof. Prashant K. Jain is this year's recipient of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C Lectureship Award.

Dr. Gilbert P. Haight Jr., best known for his pioneering work in chemical education, died on Monday, April 17, 2015 of natural causes. Known to family and friends as "Gil", Dr. Haight spent his...

Giving new meaning to the term "sonic boom", University of Illinois chemists have used sound to trigger microscopic explosions. Using an "ultrasonic hammer", the researchers triggered tiny but...

Four scientists associated with the Department of Chemistry have been honored by their election to the National Academy of Sciences.

A new molecule-making machine could do for chemistry what 3-D printing did for engineering: Make it fast, flexible and accessible to anyone. Chemists at the University of Illinois, led by chemistry...

A new drug that prompts cancer cells to self-destruct while sparing healthy cells is now entering phase I clinical trials in humans.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Prashant K. Jain has received a 2015 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, which recognizes outstanding new faculty who excel in research, experience, and academic leadership.

Alison Fout was selected as a 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry. The Sloan Research Fellowship is an extremely competitive award. Nominees are...

Miriam Ross, a sophomore at University Laboratory High School in Urbana, has been designated as one of twenty inaugural winners of the Celebrating High School Innovators Award for the state of...

When a large protein unfolds in transit through a cell, it slows down and can get stuck in traffic. Using a specialized microscope -- a sort of cellular traffic camera -- University of Illinois...

Researchers report in the journal Nature that they have made a breakthrough in understanding how a powerful antibiotic agent is made in nature. Their discovery solves a decades-old mystery, and opens...

Paul Hergenrother, the Rinehart Professor of Chemistry, appears on the list of UIUC University Scholars named this year. Now in its 29th year, the University...

R. C. Fuson Professor Scott Denmark has been selected to receive the 2014 Harry and Carol Mosher Award of the Santa Clara Valley section of the American Chemical Society.

Reid T. Milner Professor Deborah Leckband has been elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society Class of 2014 Fellows. Fellow status is awarded to BMES...

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Swanlund Professor of Chemistry, and So Hirata, Blue Waters Professor and Alumni Research Scholar in Chemistry, have been elected Members of the International Academy of...

Prashant K. Jain is one of seven recipients of the Beckman Young Investigator Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. This highly...

Alison Fout has been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and grant of $400,000 from the National Science Foundation to support her research program.

Taras Pogorelov, Senior Research Scientist in the School of Chemical Sciences and Research Professor in the Chemistry Department, has been named as one of nine NCSA Faculty Fellows for 2014.

Antibiotic resistance is depleting our arsenal against deadly diseases and infections, such as tuberculosis and Staph infections, but recent research shows promise to speed up the drug discovery...

Former Illinois Chemistry faculty member Fred Wall died on March 31, 2010, in San Diego; he was 97. He was preceded in death by his wife Clara, who died in November of 2009, and is survived by his...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Jeffrey S. Moore, the Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois, an HHMI Professor.

Professor Martin Burke has received two notable prizes in recent months. The first is the 2014 Thieme IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. This prize is awarded to a scientist under 40 whose...

I am sad to report that our colleague Don Secrest died suddenly on Saturday, May 10, 2014, at the age of 82. Born in Akron, OH, on January 3, 1932, he attended the University of Akron where he...

The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology recently held an open competition to seed new interdisciplinary research directions in engineering and the physical, behavioral and, life...

Soon, making and improving medical drugs could be as easy for chemists as stacking blocks is for a child. University of Illinois chemist Martin Burke, a...

Chemistry faculty and affiliates, including Zan Luthey-Schulten, Klaus Schulten, Martin Gruebele, and Taekjip Ha, are part of group grant proposal that has been recommended for funding by the NSF's...

When Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Hyunjoon Kong, graduate student Cartney Smith, and colleagues set out to improve MR imaging (MRI), they turned current contrast agent...

Looking at a smooth sheet of plastic in one University of Illinois laboratory, no one would guess that an impact had recently blasted a hole through it. Illinois researchers have developed materials...

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.

Professor Jonathan Sweedler has been named to win this year’s Malcom E. Pruitt Award. This award is bestowed by the Council for Chemical Research in recognition for outstanding individual...

I am very happy to announce that Wilfred van der Donk and John Rogers have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which was founded in 1780 and is one of the nation’s oldest...

Professor Wilfred van der Donk was the third recipient of the Bioorganic Chemistry Award, given biennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) to recognise excellence in any area of bioorganic...

A drug under clinical trials to treat tuberculosis could be the basis for a class of broad-spectrum drugs that act against various bacteria, fungal infections and parasites, yet evade resistance,...

Scientists have solved a decades-old medical mystery – and in the process have found a potentially less toxic way to fight invasive fungal infections, which kill about 1.5 million people a year. The...

Internal damage in fiber-reinforced composites, materials used in structures of modern airplanes and automobiles, is difficult to detect and nearly impossible to repair by conventional methods. A...

Prashant Jain was named a 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry. The Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily...

Professor Scott E. Denmark was awarded the 2014 Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry from the American Chemical Society at the ACS Meeting in Dallas, March, 2014. This award, which has...

Professor So Hirata has been named one of this campus’s Blue Waters Professors. The position confers a significant commitment of Blue Waters computing...

Associate Professor of Chemistry Marty Burke was chosen as the 2013 Kavli Lecturer for the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Indianapolis and his speech, which highlighted the wide...

Outgoing Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Distinguished Chair for Research Excellence in Chemistry Thom Dunning Jr. was recently highlighted in Chemistry...

Solid carbon dioxide is one of nature's most abundant crystals, found on the Earth, other planets, and even asteroids. Yet, our knowledge of its phase behavior apart from that of the familiar cubic...

I am pleased to announce that Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Swanlund Professor of Chemistry, was named a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prof. Hammes-Schiffer, was...

Professor and Chemistry Department Head Greg Girolami is a part of a research team that has developed a way to heal gaps in wires too small for even the world's tiniest soldering iron. Professor...

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...

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

Research from Christina White's research group, including the development of a new catalyst that will help streamline the drug-discovery process, has been highlighted in numerous campus and...

I am pleased to announce that Prof. Alex Scheeline is the co-winner of this year’s FACSS Innovation Award, given by the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies. This is a juried...

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...

Jonathan Sweedler, Eiszner Family Chair in Chemistry and Director of the School of Chemical Sciences, has been named a permanent member of the Center for Advanced Study faculty. The CAS is self-...

Professor of Chemistry Gregory Girolami has been named Head of the Department of Chemistry. He will succeed Prof. Jeff Moore who has been serving as Interim Head on August 16, 2013. Professor...

Thanks to a new $2 million investment, a drug that spurs cancer cells to self-destruct while sparing healthy cells is on the road to human clinical trials. The compound, known as PAC-1, has so far...

Professor of Chemistry Christina White has been recently recognized by two of the most prestigious international chemistry societies-- the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society.

Roger Ray, age 100, retired Dean of Sciences at Washington State University, died Sunday, June 2, 2013, in Pullman, Wash., after a brief illness. By his wish, cremation took place, and no public...

The 2013 US Frontiers of Engineering will be hosted by DuPont on September 19-21, at the DuPont Hotel in Wilmington, Delaware.

Professer Zan Luthey-Schulten's Lab has recently been highlighted in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) and Journal of Computational Chemistry. JACS ...

Recognizing exciting and innovative scientific research, DuPont named 14 young faculty members to its 2013 Class of Young Professors including UIUC Assistant Professor Prashant Jain. Over the next...

A DNA-based glue has been developed by scientists at the University of Illinois, US. The adhesive uses DNA base pair mimics that bind to...

R. C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry Scott E. Denmark has been named a recipient of a prestigious W. M. Keck Foundation Science and Engineering Program Grant. His $1 million award is part of the Keck...

Three faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been elected 2013 fellows of the National Academy of Sciences. Eduardo Fradkin, Martin Gruebele and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer...

There’s hope for patients with myotonic dystrophy. A new small molecule developed by researchers at the University of Illinois has been shown to break up the protein-RNA clusters that cause the...

Students Jie An Yang, Hoa Tri Phan, Shruti Vaidya and Professor Catherine Murphy describe in a Nano Letters article their finding that cells can "vacuum" up gold nanoparticles.

Loving husband of Marilyn for 59 years, great father to Mary (Larry Eyer) & Robert (Jo Mitchell), proud grandfather of Kelsey & Kevin Eyer; Elizabeth Rose, Roberta Lynn & Virginia May...

The American Chemical Society's Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry has chosen Professor Prashant K. Jain to receive the 2013 Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloid and...

The American Chemical Society announces Professor Martin D. Burke will deliver the second Kavli Foundation Emerging Leaders in Chemistry Lecture at the Fall 2013 National American Chemical Society...

Robert Blanchard Fischer passed away March 20, 2013. He was born October 24, 1920, to Charles Albert Fischer and Matilda Nylen Fischer in Hartford, Connecticut. Following the death of his father in...

Led by Professor Scott Silverman, Illinois chemists have used DNA to do a protein’s job, creating opportunities for DNA to find work in more areas of biology, chemistry and medicine than ever before.

Hidden in a tiny tile of interwoven DNA is a message. The message is simple, but decoding it unlocks the secret of dynamic nanoscale assembly. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-...

Professor Gruebele has been chosen to be featured in a faculty profile in the upcoming textbook Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, & Kinetics by Andrew Cooksy. The profile, which...

Professor Hergenrother, Karen Morrison (graduate student), and coworkers at MIT have synthesized and tested several dozen compounds that may hold promise as potential cancer drugs. In the new study,...

The Protein Society announces Professor Wilfred van der Donk as the 2013 Emil Thomas Kaiser Award recipient. The Emil Thomas Kaiser Award, sponsored in 2013 by a Society member who wished to remain...

Professor Wilfred van der Donk will present the 2013 ACS Chemical Biology Lecture at the Spring 2013 ACS National Meeting in recognition of his contributions to understanding enzyme reaction...

A team of U of I researchers (Hirata, Chemistry; Abbamonte, Ceperley, Ryu, and Wagner, Physics) in collaboration with chemists and physicists from Princeton and the College of William and Mary was...

Professor Hergenrother and coworkers report that tweaking natural products' rings and functional groups could lead to better compound libraries for drug discovery.

Professor van der Donk and graduate student Weixin Tang discovered some unexpected enzyme activity in the production of the protein cytolysin by Enterococcus faecalis. This research was...

The Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) visual indicator technology developed by Professor Ken Suslick and colleagues is being adapted by the U. S. Army in collaboration with Scientific Technologies of...

Researchers have discovered a new compound that restores the health of mice infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), an otherwise dangerous bacterial infection. The...

Professor Yi Lu was named the 2012 winner of the Champaign County Innovation Celebration Discovery Award, sponsored by the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation. The award recognizes an...

An antibody-based strategy has considerably widened the range of analytes that can be detected with personal glucose meters, according to new work by Yu Xiang and Yi Lu at the University of Illinois...

Chemists led by Professor van der Donk has discovered a molecule very similar to the antibiotic nisin, found naturally in milk and added to food for decades to fight pathogenic bacteria. The new...

Professor Jonathan Sweedler is part of a group of UI researchers led by Cell and Developmental Biology Professor Martha Gilette that have studied metabolism's effect on the body's circadian rhythm....

A chemically altered osteoporosis drug may be useful in fighting malaria, researchers report in a new study. Unlike similar compounds tested against many other parasitic protozoa, the drug readily...

Jeffrey Moore, an alumnus of Chemistry at Illinois and Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry, has been named as Interim Head of the Department of Chemistry for the 2012-13 year. Professor Moore...

DNA holds the genetic code for all sorts of biological molecules and traits. But University of Illinois researchers have found that DNA’s code can similarly shape metallic structures. The team found...

Two chemistry professors at the University of Illinois – Ryan C. Bailey and Prashant K. Jain – have been chosen as two of the world’s top young innovators by Technology Review, the world’s oldest...

Vanquish Oncology, Inc. is a drug development company focused on targeting molecular defects in specific cancer cells to create personalized oncology therapeutics for unmet or underserved cancer...

Sulfur compounds in petroleum fuels have met their nano-structured match. University of Illinois researchers developed mats of metal oxide nanofibers that scrub sulfur from petroleum-based fuels...

Moore and colleagues are applying their "automatic healing" technique in Li-ion batteries in an attempt to prevent thermal runaway. According to Patrick Glynn, DOE Office of Science, in his article...

Five professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been named Swanlund Chairs, the highest endowed titles on the Urbana campus. The new Swanlund Chairs are Eric Freyfogle, law;...

Professor Douglas Mitchell was named one of "Tomorrow's PIs" among a handful of young investigators identified as leaders in the field of genomics by Genome Technology. Mitchell was...

Professor Martin Burke was chosen to receive the 2013 Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator. This $5,000 award sponsored by the...

Associate Professor Benjamin McCall has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society “for integrative studies of the simplest polyatomic molecule (H3+), including its dissociative...

University of Illinois chemistry professor Douglas Mitchell has been named a Packard Fellow in science and engineering. He is among 16 early career researchers honored by the...

On October 6, 2012, Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a Fellow of the AAAS, he joins the nation's oldest and most prestigious...

The Department of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer will be joining our faculty in August 2012. Hammes-Schiffer is currently a Professor of Chemistry and the Eberly...

Professor Christina White along with members of her research group were recently featured in Chemical and Engineering News for their discovery of a small-molecule iron catalyst which has unusual...

Wilfred A. van der Donk, Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry, was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is the largest...

Professors Cathy Murphy and John Hartwig were ranked in Thomson Reuters recently released data identifying the world's top 100 chemists over the past 10 years as ranked by the impact of their...

Kenneth Suslick, Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry, recently led a team of researchers that demonstrated a quick, simple method to identify infectious bacteria by smell using a low-cost array...

Dr. Kenneth Suslick has been named the recepient of of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.  Suslick, the Marvin T. Schmidt professor of chemistry, works at the forefront of chemical sensing. He...

Dr. Scott Silverman has been chosen to receive the Campus Award for Excellence in Guiding Undergraduate Research. This is a highly competitive teaching award with several evaluation criteria,...

Dr. John Rogers, Professor of Chemistry and Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the NAE is one of the highest...

Chemistry Affiliate John Rogers has won the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Prize. The annual awards recognizes outstanding innovation and creativity. Rogers will accept the award at this week's EurekaFest at...

Researchers including Professor Chad Rienstra are the first to describe in atomic detail a chemical interaction that is vital to blood clotting-- an interaction that has baffled scientists for...

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,...

Taking their cue from biological circulatory systems, University of Illinois researchers have developed vascularized structural composites, creating materials that are lightweight and strong with...

Researchers have built a computer model of the crowded interior of a bacterial cell that – in a test of its response to sugar in its environment – accurately simulates the behavior of living cells.

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...

Professor Yi Lu, along with postdoctoral researcher Yu Xiang, have found that glucose meters, when coupled with a class of molecular sensors called functional DNA sensors, can be used to monitor...

Professor Ralph Nuzzo has received the Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The 60,000 Euro Humboldt Research Award is granted to researchers whose fundamental...

Professor Ben McCall has been named the 2011-2012 Helen Corley Petit Scholar by the College of Liberal Arts and Science. The scholarship is in recognition of outstanding research and teaching.

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Dr. Prashant Jain will be joining our faculty beginning in the Fall 2011 academic semester.  Professor Jain received his B.Tech. from the...

Dr. Cathy Murphy will receive the 2011 Inorganic Nanoscience Award, given by the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry.  The award is given to a mid-career scientist who has shown...

Seiko Fujii, a member of Professer Marty Burke's research group, has made a major advance in small molecule synthesis which will be celebrated next month on the cover of "Angewandte Chemie", one of...

So Hirata, Professor of Chemistry and Alumni Research Scholar, has been named a Scialog Fellow by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA). The RCSA is the nation's oldest foundation...

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...

U.S. researchers have applied synthetic organic chemistry to solve a mystery that has baffled scientists for more than 50 years: how the powerful, naturally occurring antifungal compound amphotericin...

Researchers, led by Chemistry Department affiliate Jianjun Cheng, have developed a simple method of making short protein chains with spiral structures that can also dissolve in water, two desirable...

Professor Ryan Bailey will receive a 2011 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Bailey is one of 118 early career scientists and researchers from 54 colleges and universities...

David Yarrow Curtin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 22, 1920 the eldest of three sons of Margaretta Cope Curtin and Ellsworth Ferris Curtin.

Professor John Katzenellenbogen has been selected as the first 2010 Philip S. Portoghese Medicinal Chemistry Lectureship Awardee. This lectureship honors the contributions of an individual who has...

Martin Gruebele has been selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a Fellow of the AAAS, he joins the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies....

Dlott and Wieckowski have developed a powerful laser spectrometer that uses nonlinear coherent vibrational spectroscopy (sum-frequency generation) to probe molecules in real time at electrochemical...

Catherine Murphy, the Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor of Chemistry, was recently honored as the Harold McMaster Visiting Scientist at Bowling Green State University. This annual event...

Stanley G. Smith, 78, died June 1, 2010. Smith was born on June 20, 1931, in Los Angeles, California. He was the son of Glen and Katherine Keck Smith. He was preceded in death by his sister,...

Richard Helmich (Suslick group ) and Tim Kucharski (Boulatov group ) have been accepted to the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany.

Martin Gruebele and his team of researchers have developed a new technique to study protein dynamics in living cells. Read the News...

Ken Suslick has received the 2009 Student Council Mentoring Award from the Acoustical Society of America. The ASA Student Council presents this award every 18 months to recognize individuals who have...

Imagine a polka-dotted postage stamp that can sniff out poisonous gases or deadly toxins simply by changing colors. As reported in the Sept. 13 issue of the journal Nature Chemistry, Ken...

The Kenneth Suslick research group has created a dispsable colorimetric sensor device that can identify 14 different sugar and artificial sweetener products. A paper describing their work was...

Rogers, Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was recognized for his contributions to the science and engineering of unusual materials, patterning techniques and metrology methods...

Wilfred van der Donk was selected as the RSC 2009 Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Lecture Award winner in recognition of his contribution to the field of bioorganic chemistry, particularly...

Dr. John Rogers' research into the artificial 'bionic' eyes has been reviewed by ABC news. See the report at...

A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting...

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has recently informed Dr. Alexander Scheeline, a faculty member in the UIUC Department of Chemistry, that he has been selected to receive a 2009 Special Grant...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Better tools for manipulating DNA in the laboratory may soon be possible with newly discovered deoxyribozymes (catalytic DNA) capable of cleaving single-stranded DNA, researchers at...

Scott Silverman, a chemistry professor at Illinois who has done pioneering work with DNA enzymes, hopes that "by capturing Darwinian evolution in new molecules, we might be able to better...

Scott Silverman has received the 2009 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry given by the American Chemical Society's Division of Biological Chemistry. Scott will be presented the award (consisting...

Eric Oldfield, professor of chemistry, was selected for his contributions to biological magnetic resonance, including chemical shift analysis and development of anti-malarial drugs. Read more in the...

A team of 24 researchers from the U.S., Europe, Taiwan and Japan and led by University of Illinois scientists has engineered a new anti-cancer agent that is about 200 times more active in killing...

A team of 24 researchers from the U.S., Europe, Taiwan, and Japan, and led by University of Illinois scientists, has engineered a new anti-cancer agent that is about 200 times more active in killing...

Dr. Jeff Moore and Philip A. Janowicz of Chemistry at Illinois have recently been featured in Nature for their online and interactive courses. To read the article, please see the...

Chad Rienstra received the International Conferences on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS) Founders Medal in San Diego in 2008. The award cited Chad's innovative work in the area of...

The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois is delighted to announce that Professor Catherine J. Murphy will be joining our faculty next fall.   Cathy graduated magna cum laude (...

Dr. Yi Lu and researchers have developed a new approach to cancer chemotherapy using short DNA strands to help target delivery of the drug directly to cancer cells, and 'call it off' should problems...

Pathogen recognition is the foundation of the body's immune response and survival against infection. A small cell-receptor protein called DC-SIGN is part of the immune system, and recognizes certain...

Dr. Ben McCall has won the Colblentz Award, given annually in the Molecular Spectroscopy Symposium at Ohio State. Read more about the Coblentz Award here, at their website:...

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

Parachute cords, climbing ropes, and smart coatings for bridges that change color when overstressed are several possible uses for force-sensitive polymers being developed by researchers at the...

A new method to induce protein folding by taking the pressure off of proteins is up to 100 times faster than previous methods, and could help guide more accurate computer simulations for how complex...

Water molecules and proteins make good dance partners, and LAS scientists have the evidence to back it up. An LAS research team has become the first to measure the activity of water molecules as...

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...

Scott Denmark was awarded the Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods at the annual American Chemical Society meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. They cited "his insightful and...

Dr. White and group's research into a C-H oxidative macrolactonization approach reviewed by multiple sources has been reviewed and highlighted by:...

In the classic fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes," Hans Christian Andersen uses the eyes of a child to challenge conventional wisdom and help others to see more clearly. In similar fashion,...

Dr. Paul Braun of Chemistry has been featured in an article in C&E News regarding his research into self-healing coatings. To read more on this exciting new discovery, please see the...

Marty Burke will receive the 2009 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry award. The Excellence in Chemistry Award is presented to two talented academic researchers who have demonstrated distinct...

Martin Burke has been selected to received the prestigious 2009 Amgen Young Investigators Award from Amgen, Inc. The award includes an unrestricted grant of $25,000, and the opportunity to present a...

Martin Burke's research into unstable boron reagents has been covered in C&E News. Read the article by Stu Borman here...

Two University of Illinois professors, Martin D. Burke, a professor of chemistry, and Maria Spies, a professor of biochemistry , have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute early career...

Martin Burke has been chosen for the HHMI Early Career Scientist award. To read more on this prestigious award, see the article from...

Dr. Martin Burke has won the prestigious 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The fellowship program provides each fellow with a grant of $50,000 for a two-year period...

Four chemistry faculty have been chosen for the inaugural class of the American Chemical Society Fellows.

This summer, Dr. Dana Dlott gave an insightful and interesting lecture with the title "Blowing things up for fun, profit, war and medicine"....

John Rogers, a world leader in designing "flexible electronics", has been named one of this year's 24 MacArthur Fellows. He and collaborators have developed tiny inorganic light-emitting diodes,...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have designed a small molecule that blocks an aberrant pathway associated with myotonic dystrophy type 1, the most common form of muscular dystrophy. The...

Moore and collaborators have designed a 'first aid kit' for electrical systems to prevent circuits from failing and to increase safety and prolong the life of batteries. Their findings have been...

Eric Oldfield has been selected for the 2009 Royal Society of Chemistry's Soft Matter and Biophysical Award. This award honors "his original contributions to biophysical chemistry including his...

The News Bureau has covered Schulten's research into toxic molecules and bird migration.

A soil microbe that uses chemical warfare to fight off competitors employs an unusual chemical pathway in the manufacture of its arsenal, researchers report, making use of an enzyme that can do what...

By creating a model of the active site found in a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists at the University of Illinois have described a catalyst that acts like nature's most pervasive hydrogen...

In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois have identified and visualized the signaling pathways in protein-RNA complexes that help set the genetic code in all organisms. The genetic...

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.

Read the San Francisco Chronicle article here.

Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching,...

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...

Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world’s first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it.

John Rogers and his colleagues have published new findings on their research into creating flexible silicon solar cells. Read more in the October issue of...

John Rogers is one of six scientists selected as a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF) for 2009. NSSEFF will provide him with $3 million over five years to conduct basic...

John Rogers and Yonggang Huang have brought the possibility of stretchable, flexible sensors much closer to reality through their research in flexible silicon-based circuits.

By combining stretchable optoelectronics and biologically inspired design, scientists have created a remarkable imaging device, with a layout based on the human eye.

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

From the Chicago Sun Times: Researchers say they've come up with what might be a new, potentially more effective way to treat the "superbug" known as MRSA. The discovery could lead to new ways to...

Understanding the form and function of certain proteins in the human body is becoming faster and easier, thanks to the work of researchers at the University of Illinois.

Researchers at Illinois have developed new synthetic strategies for forming monolayer films of conjugated carbon, in various configurations ranging from flat sheets, to balloons, tubes and pleated...

The research teams of Jeffrey Moore and John Rogers have developed new chemical processes to create tough nanomembranes for possible use in molecular sieves and flexible displays. Their methods...

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.

Wilfred van der Donk has won the 2008 SCS Teaching Excellence Award. Only three awards were granted this year throughout SCS. The award recognizes the entire scope of SCS educational efforts, from...

Professor Christina White has won the Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry for 2008-2009. This prestigious award, formerly known as the BMS Freedom to Discover...

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...

Dr. M. Christina White and Sean A. Reed's research into developing the first catalytic intermolecular allylic C-H amination reaction has been reviewed in C&E News.

Solving the equations of quantum mechanics for complicated systems becomes exponentially more difficult with each added particle, making simulations impossible because there simply isn't enough...

Richard Herman, the chancellor of the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, and Jeffrey Moore, the Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry at Illinois, have been elected to the American...

Dr. Jeff Moore's research, reviewed in numerous publications and selected for one of the Scientific American Top 50 Finest Awards, has recently been reviewed in The Economist. Read...

Jeffrey Moore and colleagues at Illinois are working to develop composite materials such as reinforced plastics that will heal themselves if they are damaged. Their work was recently featured in an...

A new study of the ribosome, the cell’s protein-building machinery, sheds light on the oldest branches of the evolutionary tree of life and suggests that differences in ribosomal structure among the...

Martin Gruebele has been elected to membership in the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. The German National Academy of Science (the Leopoldina) is highly selective and the world's...

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

Researchers report this week that they are the first to observe the dynamic, ratchet-like movements of single ribosomal molecules in the act of building proteins from genetic blueprints.

Irwin C. Gunsalus, an internationally renowned biochemist and enzymologist who discovered several vitamins and made seminal contributions to the understanding of bacterial and human metabolism, died...

According to new research, old ideas about water behavior are all wet. Ubiquitous on Earth, water also has been found in comets, on Mars and in molecular clouds in interstellar space. Now,...

John Hartwig and Zhijian Liu were cited in Chemical & Engineering News for developing a rhodium catalyst system that can catalyze intramolecular cyclizations of aminoalkenes under mild conditions.

John Hartwig and Zhijian Liu were cited in Chemical & Engineering News for developing a rhodium catalyst system that can catalyze intramolecular cyclizations of aminoalkenes under mild conditions.

Scott Denmark has received the Robert Robinson Lectureship. From the website: The Lectureship was "founded in 1962 as a result of an endowment received from the Sir Robert Robinson Foundation Inc.,...

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...

Dr. Dana Dlott and his researchers have devised a method to evaluate substrate surfaces. This method could assist in the detection of deadly fumes in subways, toxic gases resulting from chemical...

Detecting deadly fumes in subways, toxic gases in chemical spills, and hidden explosives in baggage is becoming easier and more efficient with a measurement technique called surface-enhanced Raman...

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...

Ryan C. Bailey was recently awarded a grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to study changes in cell adhesion that underlie cancer metastasis.

A simple iron complex made by Roman Boulatov's research team could pave the way for new oxygen reduction catalysts with potential uses in low-temperature fuel cells and may offer an alternative to...

Researchers at the University of Illinois are the first to achieve optical waveguiding of near-infrared light through features embedded in self-assembled, three-dimensional photonic crystals.

Imagine tiny cracks in your patio table healing by themselves, or the first small scratch on your new car disappearing by itself. This and more may be possible with self-healing coatings being...

Dr. Martin Burke of Chemistry at Illinois has recently been profiled and interviewed by The Scientist Magazine. Read the whole article here.

Two researchers at the University of Illinois – Martin D. Burke and Nicholas X. Fang – have been chosen as two of the world’s 35 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, the world’s oldest...

Adding a food additive to damaged polymers can help restore them to full strength, say scientists at the University of Illinois who cooked up the novel, self-healing system.

Scientists at the University of Illinois have developed a new class of disposable, microplate-based optical biosensors capable of detecting protein-DNA interactions. Based on the properties of...

Paul Hergenrother and Brian Cummings research has recently been reviewed in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World magazine....

Martin Gruebele's research into the properties of water and protein folding has been reviewed in numerous scientific and non-scientific articles from around the world. To read more on this exciting...

Chad Rienstra has been selected by the SCS Committee on Staff to receive the 2008 SCS Teaching Award. This award recognizes the entire scope of SCS educational efforts, from course development to in...

Dr. Thomas Rauchfuss, professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois, is an expert on the synthesis of hydrogenase active site mimics. His expertise has been called upon in the latest...

Dr. M. Christina White and student Mark Chen's new research into predictably selective aliphatic C-H oxidation for complex molecule synthesis that recently appeared in Science has been covered in six...

Researchers at the University of Illinois report that a new study of mechanoluminescence revealed extensive atomic and molecular spectral emission not previously seen in a mechanoluminescence event.

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a method for culturing mammalian neurons in chambers not much larger than the neurons themselves.

Polymer glasses are versatile plastics widely used in applications ranging from aircraft windshields to DVDs.

Professor Scott Silverman of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently selected as a 2007 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Silverman...

In a familiar high-school chemistry demonstration, an instructor first uses electricity to split liquid water into its constituent gases, hydrogen and oxygen.

A new catalyst-free, self-healing material system developed by researchers at the University of Illinois offers a far less expensive and far more practical way to repair composite materials used in...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a simple, disposable sensor for detecting hazardous uranium ions, with sensitivity that rivals the performance of much...

Using an extremely sensitive measurement technique, researchers at the University of Illinois have found clear evidence that a lead-specific DNAzyme uses the “lock and key” reaction mechanism. In the...

The next generation of self-healing materials, invented by researchers at the University of Illinois, mimics human skin by healing itself time after time.

The inventors of self-healing plastic have come up with another invention: a new way of doing chemistry.

Dr. Jeffrey Moore and coworkers have developed a fundamentally different way of initiating or accelerating a reaction. In the March 22 issue of Nature (Volume 446 Number 7134 page 423) they report...

Paul C. Lauterbur, University of Illinois professor of chemistry who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2003 for his pioneering work in the development of magnetic resonance imaging, died March 27, 2007 at...

Professor Paul J. Hergenrother of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently chosen to receive the 2008 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry. This award is granted: "...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $7 million to a team of researchers from the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin to discover, engineer and produce a promising – yet...

Like navigating spacecraft through the solar system by means of gravity and small propulsive bursts, researchers can guide atoms, molecules and chemical reactions by utilizing the forces that bind...

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.

Christina White and grad student Kenneth J. Fraunhoffer have discovered a way to catalytically convert C-H directly to C-N. Their discoveries are highlighted in a news article in C&E News.

Professor M. Christina White of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently awarded the 2007 Eli Lilly Grantee Award. The award comes with a two-year unrestricted research...

One of the fundamental challenges facing organic synthesis in the 21st century is the need to significantly increase the efficiency with which carbon frameworks can be constructed and functionalized.

Dr. M. Christina White and Mark Chen's recent research paper regarding aliphatic C-H oxidation has been selected as a top ten breakthrough of the year in science by Science Magazine.

Global warming isn’t the only heat scientists are feeling. Another area in which heat flow is becoming crucial is the field of molecular electronics, where long-chain molecules attached to tiny...

In a paper published online this month in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, researchers report that they have developed a way to determine the function of some of the hundreds of thousands of...

Ryan C. Bailey, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois, has been named a recipient of the 2007 National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award.

Eleven faculty members of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Martin Burke's group was recently highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News June 18, 2007 issue. Click ...

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.

Scott Denmark wins an Excellence in Chemistry Award, sponsored by Astra-Zeneca. Professor Denmark was made a 2005 Distinguished Lecturer.

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...

Professor Martin Gruebele's research perfecting single molecule absorption spectroscopy was mentioned in C&E News. "...

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.

Benita S. Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology, and Center for Advanced Study Professor, and John A. Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Chemistry, have been...

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.

A presentation by Professor Yi Lu was selected by the Materials Research Society as one of the "Top 5 Hot Talks/Cool Papers" from the 2006 MRS spring meeting.

Paul J. Hergenrother has received a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for 2006. The award is designed to support the teaching and research careers of talented young faculty in the chemical...

Ken Suslick delivered the Harold S. Johnston Lecture in Physical Chemistry for 2006 from the College of Chemistry of the University of California, Berkeley, in February, 2006.

Deborah Leckband was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Professor Paul Hergenrother has been named an I. C. Gunsalus Scholar for 2006-2007. A newly designated award, it is given annually to young faculty members in the physical or life sciences who...

Professor of Chemistry, M. Christina White was awarded a prestigious NSF CAREER grant titled, "Catalytic Organotransition Metal Chemistry: C-C Bond Forming Reactions via Allylic C-H Bond Activation".

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.

The Granick group's lipid, nanoparticle research was featured in "Nanoparticles create biocompatible capsules," UIUC News Bureau, 3/6/2006.

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 Yi Lu is again in the news with another article about his self correcting nanomaterial assembly process. "...

Professor Yi Lu's research was discussed in the Oct. 10th issue of The Scientist, "Give your protein a tune-up." and also by the UIUC News Bureau, "Proofreading and error-correction in nanomaterials...

Chen Zhang and Kenneth S. Suslick have developed a sensor that uses an array of chemically sensitive dyes to identify organic compounds dissolved in water...

"Seeking the D Isomer: Sensitive, downscaled techniques locate D-amino acids in single neurons and subcellular sites," is the Sept. 26th C & E News article describing the research of Jonathan...

John Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering at Illinois, and his team used molds derived from carbon nanotubes have approached the ultimate resolution - defined by molecular scale...

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

Professor Nuzzo has been named a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation, an organization based in Britain. Among its approximately 50 US members are Paul Lauterbur, Ron Breslow, Malcolm Chisholm...

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...

A powerful new tool for probing molecular structure on surfaces has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Single molecule absorption spectroscopy can...

Every year the MIT Technology Reviews magazine publishes a list of researchers under 35 from all disciplines, universities, corporations, or startups that they consider the top technology innovators...

The Bomem-Michelson award is dedicated to the memory of Professor A. E. Michelson, developer of the Michelson interferometer.

Peter Beak named a Center for Advanced Studies Professor.

New faculty member, Martin Burke, has been awarded a 2005 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award. The...

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.

The flexible electronics research of Professor John Rogers was detailed in a St. Louis Post Dispatch article. He and his colleagues had an article on this research published online in Science...

Professor Martin Gruebele's research perfecting single molecule absorption spectroscopy has been published online in Nano Letters....

  Dana Dlott was recently made a Fellow of the AAAS. He was recognized for fundamental studies of vibrational energy in molecular solids and liquids using novel methods of laser spectroscopy...

  CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Mimicking nature, a procedure developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign can find and correct defects in self-assembled nanomaterials. The...

Professor Martin Gruebele has been named a 2006 Biophysical Society Fellow. This...

A new way of making nanoparticles developed by chemistry Professor Kenneth Suslick and Yuri Didenko, a senior research scientist in chemistry, could make a...

Professor Paul Hergenrother made Technology Reviews magazine's list of...

Professor Wilfred van der Donk has been selected to receive a 2006 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. The announcement of this highly competitive award was just made at...

NPR's Earth and Sky produced a radio article featuring Professor Paul Hergenrother's research. His research group is looking for substances that remove...