The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Chemistry News - Spring 2005
- Paul Hergenrother named a top innovator under 35 for 2005 by Technology Reviews
- Professor Stephen Sligar receives Human Frontiers Science Program Research Award and is elected a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation
- The exciting research of Professor Humin Zhao was featured in: "By creating molecular 'bridge,' scientists change function of a protein," UIUC News Bureau, 5/5/05.
- U. of I. alumni research scholar Martin Gruebele receives Bessel Prize
- Professor Chad Rienstra Named a Cottrell Scholar
- Ralph Nuzzo elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the World Innovation Foundation.
- Ralph Nuzzo elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the World Innovation Foundation.
- Ryan Woodyer (Huimin Zhao, Wilfred van der Donk) is the recipient of the 2005 WH Peterson Award for the best poster presentation by a graduate student at the ACS Biochemical Technology division.
- "Researchers improve design of genetic on-off switches," April 4, 2005, UIUC News Bureau article, features the research of Professor Huimin Zhao and others.
- Researchers improve design of genetic on-off switches
- U of I Physics Professor Tapped as HHMI Investigator
- "Theories of high-temperature superconductivity violate Pauli Principle," is the title of the UIUC News Bureau article involving the work of Professor Philip Phillips.
- Theories of high-temperature superconductivity violate Pauli Principle
- Tighe Spurlin (Gewirth Group) as been selected to attend the 55th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany.
- Paul Hergenrother to receive Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
- The ultrasound research of Professor Kenneth Suslick and graduate student David Flannigan, as published in Nature has resulted in a media blitz on the subject.
- "High-intensity ultrasound creates hollow nanospheres and nanocrystals," UIUC News Bureau, (2/22/2005) describes the research of Professor Ken Suslick that was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- High-intensity ultrasound creates hollow nanospheres and nanocrystals
- Chemists synthesize molecule that helps body battle cancers, malaria
- The research of Steve Granick was featured in a UIUC News Bureau article.
- High-fidelity patterns form spontaneously when solvent evaporates
- Professor Huimin Zhao will be one of the recipients of the Xerox Award for Faculty Research, UIUC College of Engineering for 2005.
- The Winter 2005 Research Corporation Newsletter contains an article discussing the reasons for the large number of Cottrell Scholars at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- Professors Jim Lisy and Yi Lu were re-elected to the Faculty Senate.
- Rienstra develops improved NMR design for protein structure determination
- Professor of materials science and engineering and chemistry John Rogers and collaborators published significant work on polymer nanoimprint lithography in the December issue of Nano Letters.
- Molecular scale resolution achieved in polymer nanoimprinting technique
