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Frank Alcorn receives 2023 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Dissertation
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...
Chemistry labs divert more than one ton of PPE from waste stream
Through the Kimberly-Clark Right Cycle Program, teaching labs and some research labs in the Department of Chemistry diverted 1.03 tons or 2,278 pounds of PPE waste in 2023, earning the department a...
Christy F. Landes elected 2023 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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.”

2024 TS Piper Award Winner: Joe Lastowski
Receiving the 2024 T.S. Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic Thesis is a great honor, said Joe Lastowski. “I feel very privileged to have the opportunity to obtain a PhD from UIUC and...
2024 TS Piper Award Winner: Daniel Hu
Growing up in Taiwan, Chi-Herng "Daniel" Hu dreamed of studying in the United States and earning his doctorate. After graduating from National Taiwan University in 2017 with a bachelor's degree in...
Chemistry alumnus receives UIAA Alumni Achievement Award
Stephen J. Elledge, a world-renowned leader in the field of the genetics, biochemistry, genomics, and proteomics of cancer cell biology, has received a 2017 University of Illinois Alumni Achievement...
Joshua Hinman: Pytosh Fellow
Originally from Tremont, Illinois, Joshua studied chemistry as an undergraduate at Bradley University in Peoria before coming to Illinois. He is currently a PhD candidate in Prof. Catherine Murphy’s...
Travel Awards
The Spring 2018 travel award results are in! Thank you for your participation. Check your email next spring for information on the 2019 award. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Women...