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Chemistry alum to receive 2023 LAS Alumni Humanitarian Award

02/01/2023 - Dr. Lance E. Rodewald is a senior advisor to the National Immunization Program of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Professor Liviu Mirica elected a 2022 AAAS Fellow

01/31/2023 - 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...

Illinois researchers make C&EN list of 2022 "synthesis showstoppers"

01/30/2023 - 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...

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University of Illinois scientists win $9.5 million to study emerging pathogens

01/26/2023 - Chemistry professors Wilfred van der Donk and Angad Mehta and UIUC biochemistry professors Beth Stadtmueller and Nicholas Wu will work with a University of Colorado professor on a three-year project...

Alum Hye Kyung Timken to receive NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society

01/23/2023 - The National Academy of Sciences award recognizes Timken's groundbreaking work at Chevron on innovative catalysts, which has been instrumental in making oil refineries safer, and fossil fuels more...

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Students experience science, new culture in Costa Rica study abroad program

01/23/2023 - 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...

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Professors Jonathan Sweedler, Fan Lam to study Alzheimer’s disease

01/19/2023 - A new National Institutes of Health grant will fund this Beckman Institute research that will use a unique combination of imaging techniques to study Alzheimer’s disease on a scale that has never...

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Professor Ben Snyder joins faculty in Chemistry at Illinois

01/19/2023 - 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...

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2022 SCS Science Image Challenge winners, finalists

01/18/2023 - 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...

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Hee-Sun Han leading Spatial Omics Initiative at Illinois

01/16/2023 - Researchers in the Han group are developing a single molecule resolution spatial omics platform and new analytical methods that extract unique biological insights from spatial omics data.

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Angad Mehta awarded Scialog, USDA funding for mitigating zoonotic threats

01/06/2023 - The Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded seven new team projects in the second year of Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats. The Mehta research...

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First test of anti-cancer agent PAC-1 in human clinical trials shows promise

12/22/2022 - Illinois chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother and Illinois professor of veterinary clinical medicine Dr. Timothy Fan found that the compound PAC-1 has therapeutic potential in pet dogs with...

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Research targets an enzyme essential to coronaviruses for potential antiviral, vaccine development

12/22/2022 - Platform developed by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research team led by chemistry professor Angad Mehta can be adapted to a range of current and emerging RNA viruses for development of...

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Alum Stephen Kocheril developing expertise in cryogenic ion trapping

12/15/2022 - A PhD candidate at Brown University, Kocheril graduated from Illinois in the Class of 2016 and recently returned to his alma mater to present his doctoral research as the recipient of the Brown...

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Alum Weixin Tang (PhD, '15) selected a 2022 Packard Fellow

12/06/2022 - The Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering are awarded to innovative early-career scientists and engineers pursuing new areas of research. Tang is an alum of Professor Wilfred van der Donk's...