A Community Advancing Science
Graduate Diversity Contact
Dr. Ellen Wang Althaus
Director of Graduate Diversity
Department of Chemistry
107 Noyes Laboratory
MC-712, Box D-1
600 South Mathews Avenue
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois 61801
email: ealthaus@illinois.edu
phone: 217 244-1259
fax: 217 244-5943
About the Director
Dr. Ellen Wang Althaus is the Director of Graduate Diversity at Illinois. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Carleton College (1989), Dr. Althaus earned her M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1995) in inorganic chemistry at Northwestern University under the direction of Professor Thomas O’Halloran. Upon completion of her doctorate, she was a visiting assistant professor at Wheaton College, IL before moving to the Champaign-Urbana area. Dr. Althaus taught chemistry at the University of Illinois and joined the department as Director of Women in Chemistry Programs in the spring of 2006.
