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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A graduate student from India, Bandyopadhyay was drawn to the Illinois chemistry graduate program by research related to photoacoustic applications of porphyrin. In his second year, he has a first...

A PhD student in organic chemistry, Forzano focuses on developing a class of molecules called activatable photosensitizers in the lab and outside the lab, the fifth-year graduate student has been a...

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

A fourth-year chemistry PhD student in Prof. Paul Braun's group, Carlos Juarez-Yescas is focusing his scientific curiosity on improving solid state batteries and becoming an experienced mentor by...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A team of scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Rice University and Danville Area Community College has created an affordable laboratory curriculum for teaching advanced data...

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

A fourth-year PhD student in the Mirica Group, Sagnik Chakrabarti is doing exactly what he hoped to do when he was an undergraduate student in India — cutting-edge research that involves making...

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

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

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

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

A chemistry major and undergraduate researcher in the lab of chemistry Professor Lisa Olshansky, Robert Cook will graduate in May with the Class of 2023 and to land a chemistry job, possibly in...

A third-year PhD student in Chemistry at Illinois, Danielle Loving is a 2022 National Science Foundation Fellow, a mentor in the C2 program, and a research associate in the lab of Professor Martin...

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

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

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

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

Illinois chemistry researchers developed an NIR light-activated nanogel that delivered a powerful chemotherapy drug to breast cancer tumors in mice with a high degree of accuracy and significantly...

Michael Pence, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry working under Professor Joaquín Rodríguez-López, uses microfabricated devices to measure electrochemical dynamics, both at the...

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

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

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

Graduate student leaders in the Department of Chemistry offer advice to first-year PhD students on how to navigate graduate school and share a highlight from their own first year in the graduate...

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

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

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

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

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

A first year graduate student at UIUC, Xu recently tested her ability to explain research in the Shen lab in front of a live audience on campus. A member of professor Mei Shen's lab, Xu has a diverse...

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

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

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

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...

A Materials Science and Engineering team at Illinois that includes chemistry graduate student Carlos Juarez-Yescas and chemistry professor Paul Braun is moving on to phase two of the three-phase...

A third-year graduate student, Susanna Barrett weaves into her busy schedule time for mentoring other students both outside the lab and in the lab where she is currently doing a lot of foundational...

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

Working last summer as a research and development intern with Mediomics, a small biotech start-up company in St. Louis, graduate student Subhendu Pandit discovered how much he enjoys research, design...

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

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

A native of Fresno, Californa, Catherine Jalomo is pursuing her dream to become a chemist and a mentor as a first-generation college student and the first among her siblings to pursue a graduate...

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology features student researcher Melissa Lucero, a fifth-year PhD student studying chemistry and chemical biology in the lab of chemistry professor...

Graduate student leaders of several organizations share why they are involved in various Chemistry at Illinois student groups and share advice for first-year graduate students as well as memories of...

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

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

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

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

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

A Meyerhoff Scholar, member of Honors College and undergraduate researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, incoming UIUC chemistry graduate student Autumn Cook was also dedicated to...

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

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

The annual Illini Success survey again shows that most students graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering secure...

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

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

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

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

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

A doctoral student in the Fout group, Daniel Najera was born in Chicago, grew up in Mexico and moved to El Paso, Texas, at age 16 to escape economic hardship and pursue educational opportunities that...

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

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

A member of professor Alison Fout's research group, Tabitha Miller looks ahead to postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory as she nears completion of her PhD in chemistry in early 2021.

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

Amanda East, a PhD student in chemistry, works in the lab of chemistry professor Jeff Chan and with the Liang Research Group as a graduate fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and...

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

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

A sixth-year PhD candidate in the area of organic chemistry, Edzna Garcia shares her story of perseverance as a first-generation college student who realized in high school that she wanted to pursue...

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

After Elizabeth Murphy graduates from the Department of Chemistry next month, her next stop will be on the West Coast where she will pursue a PhD in polymeric materials chemistry at the University of...

Every year, as we prepare for the annual Image of Research exhibition, we are simply amazed at the diversity and beauty of graduate student research on our campus. This year, we are...

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...

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

Growing up in North Miami, Safiyah Muhammad was always at the beach and naturally drawn to marine life, which led her to consider marine biology as an undergraduate at Nova Southeastern University.

A world traveler, photographer and musician, Nick Pino’s dream is to live in the big city, but it was the human connections that drew him to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to earn his...

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

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...

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

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...

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,...

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

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

The Miniature Brain Machinery (MBM) program announces new trainees beginning in January 2020. Each new trainee represents an underrepresented demographic in our field. Sara Bell, along with...

The Moore group recently published a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society that describes a new way of synthesizing ring polymers. These polymers are usually difficult to prepare, and...

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

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

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

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

In February, the Department of Chemistry celebrated the dedication of an American Chemical Society (ACS) National Historic Chemical Landmark in honor of Illinois alumnus St. Elmo Brady, who, in 1916...

Yaroslav Boyko, a third-year graduate student in the David Sarlah lab, has received a Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Boyko’s research is focused on the...

On August 17, 2019, the LGBTQ+ chemists held their 3rd annual Welcome BBQ for the Out community in the Department of Chemistry. The main goal of the event is to foster community building and promote...

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...

On June 29 and July 13, more than 100 local middle school girls attended the 11th annual Bonding with Chemistry Day Camp for Girls, organized by the Women Chemists Committee.

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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 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. 

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

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

Name: Alayna Johnson. Year: Junior. Hometown: Minneapolis, MN. Why Illinois? I actually enrolled at Illinois because of its highly-rated physics program, but I quickly realized I was more suited...

Researchers at the University have designed an enzyme that helps decrease harmful chemical compounds and contaminants in the environment. The research was published on Sept. 14 and focuses on...

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

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...

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

The Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Bonding with Chemistry Day Camp is an annual event with the purpose of exposing middle school girls to various areas of chemistry.

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

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.

Name: Erin Nissen. Year: 3rd Year. Hometown: Colorado Springs. Why Illinois? I loved the people and research.

Name: Kyle Shelton. Year: Class of 2016. Hometown: Des Moines, Iowa. Why Illinois? I completed a summer rotation in the chemistry department as an undergrad, and knew it was a really great school...

Name: Becky Haight. Year: Junior (Class of 2019). Hometown: Wadsworth, IL. Why Illinois? One of the top schools for undergraduate chemistry in the country is only a couple hours from home.

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

Name: Elizabeth Kathleen Neumann. Year: Third Year. Hometown: Moorpark, California. Why Illinois? The environment seemed very supportive and interdisciplinary.

Name: Ashley Lenhart. Year: Senior. Hometown: Watseka, IL. Why Illinois? I had ‘chemistry’ with the campus and opportunities immediately.

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

Kali Miller, a fourth year PhD student, is the Joint Safety Team (JST) representative for Professor Paul Braun’s research group and currently serves as the only graduate student on the ACS National...

Name: Timothy P. Moneypenny. Year: 3rd Year. Hometown: Akron, Ohio. Why Illinois? Awesome chemistry department and awesome people.

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

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

Thomas Osberger (White group) and Andy Thomas (Denmark group) are finalists for the 2017 Reaxys PhD Prize. The...

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

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

Twelve students in the Lincoln Scholars Initiative graduated from the University of Illinois this academic year, making them the second class of LAS students who have earned a degree with support...

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

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

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

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

Timothy Moneypenny, a doctoral candidate in materials chemistry, has been selected as a 2017 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow.

Three ILLINOIS students won the Judges Choice global innovation award with novel coating process to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Shell...

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

Gruebele group member Max Prigozhin and Burke group member Junqi Li have been named the recipients of a prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowship, the International Student Research...

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...

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

Two University of Illinois students have won prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year, and a third student at Illinois received honorable mention. Anthony Mazzotti...

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.

Tom Anderson, a student in the Burke Group , has just received the Ruth L. Kirchstein Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) , based on his work using NMR...

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

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...

Charity Flener of Hartford, Ky., who plans to conduct research at Philipps-Universitat in Marburg, Germany, has just been awarded a 2008-2009 scholarship by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Flener...

Jaclyn Murphy, a student in the Hartwig Group , has won the 2007-2008 Nelson J. Leonard ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship with her essay: "Recent Developments in Methodologies...

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.

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