Faculty News

2013

• Zimmerman Research Highlighted in ChemsitryWorld
• Professor Scott E. Denmark Receives 2012 Keck Foundation Science and Engineering Program Grant
• Martin Gruebele and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• Zimmerman Group Develops New Molecule for Potential Treatment of Myotonic Dystrophy
• Prashant Jain Chosen to Receive 2013 Unilever Award from ACS
• Martin Burke Selected to Deliver the Kavli Foundation Emerging Leaders in Chemistry Lecture at the 246th National ACS Meeting
• Silverman Lab Develops DNA Catalysts for Protein Dephosphorylation
• Lu's Reversible Assembly Leads to Tiny Encrypted Messages
• Hergenrother Research with MIT Cited in Science Daily
• van der Donk Chosen to Receive The Protein Society's 2013 Emil Thomas Kaiser Award
• Gruebele's Career and Research Highlighted in Upcoming Physical Chemistry Textbook
• So Hirata, Lead Investigator for $3.5M DOE Collaborative Project
• van der Donk to Present 2013 ACS Chemical Biology Lecture
• Hergenrother Research Highlighted in C&E News
• van der Donk and Tang Discover Unusual Enzyme Activity
• Army Uses Ken Suslick's Volatile Organic Compound Indicator Technology for Biodetection
• Oldfield and Colleagues Discover Health-Restoring Compound in the Battle Against MRSA

2012

• Prashant Jain Develops Nanofiber Fuel Scrubbers
• Douglas Mitchell Named Among "Tomorrow's PIs"
• Benjamin McCall Elected APS Fellow
• Jeff Moore and Colleagues Work to Improve Battery Safety
• Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, John Rogers and Stephen Sligar Named Swanlund Endowed Chairs
• So Hirata and Philip Phillips Named AAAS Fellows
• Martin Burke to receive 2013 EJ Corey Award
• Mitchell Named Packard Fellow
• Sharon Hammes-Schiffer selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Lu Discovers DNA Connection to Gold Nanoparticles
• Klaus Schulten's Research Higlighted in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
• Sweedler's Research Highlighted by UI News Bureau
• Sweedler's Research Highlighted in Medical Xpress
• Bailey and Jain Chosen for Top Young Innovator Awards
• Prashant Jain Receives IACAT 2012-13 Fellowship
• Prof. Jeff Moore Named Interim Department Head for 2012-13
• Sharon Hammes-Schiffer to Join Chemistry at Illinois in August
• Yi Lu Wins Innovation Discovery Award
• Murphy Research Highlighted in Nano World
  
• Lu and Xiang Expand Scope of Glucose Meter Testing
  
• van der Donk Discovers New Antibiotic Molecule
• Suslick Research Highlighted in Businessweek
• Four to Join UI Faculty
• Oldfield Modifies Osteoporosis Drug for Use in Fighting Malaria
• Hergenrother Founds New Drug Development Company

2011

• Burke Group Makes Major Advance in Small Molecule Synthesis
• Yi Lu Couples DNA Sensors with Glucose Meters to Measure More than Sugar
• Vascular Composites Enable Dynamic Structural Materials
• Prashant Jain Joins Chemistry Faculty
• Researchers Record Two-state Dynamics in Glassy Silicon
• John Rogers Wins Lemelson-MIT Prize
• Researchers Solve Molecular Mystery Linked to Blood Clotting
• So Hirata Named Scialog Fellow
• Jim Lisy Named Recepient of Alexander von Humboldt Research Award
• Researchers Demonstrate Quick, Simple Method for Identifying Infectious Bacteria by Smell
• Wilfred van der Donk Elected to AAM and RSC
• Kenneth Suslick Recieves Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
• Researchers make the Leap to Whole-Cell Simulations
• Martin Burke's Research Highlighted in Chemistry World Article
• Cathy Murphy Named Recepient of 2011 Inorganic Nanoscience Award
• Scott Denmark to Receive ISHC Senior Award in Hetercyclic Chemistry
• Scott Silverman to Receive Campus Award for Excellence in Guiding Undergraduate Research
• John Rogers Elected to National Academy of Engineering
• Researchers led by Chemistry Affiliate Jianjun Cheng Develop a Simpler Way of Making Proteins
• Eric Oldfield Receives 2011 Avanti Award in Lipids
• Ben McCall Designated 2011-2012 Helen Corley Petit Scholar
• Ralph Nuzzo Receives the Research award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Ryan Bailey Receives 2011 Sloan Research Fellowship
• Professors Murphy and Hartwig Make List of Top 100 Chemists Ranked By Citation Per Article
• Christina White: Catalyst Makes a Novel Switch
• Steve Granick: Triblock Sphere Provides Simple Path to Complex Structures
• Eric Oldfield: Chemists Document Workings of Key Staph Enzyme--and How to Block It

2010

• Cathy Murphy Named Harold McMaster Visiting Scientist
• Martin Gruebele Selected AAAS Fellow
• Martin Gruebele and Colleagues Create New Technique To Study Protein Dynamics in Living Cells
• John Katzenellenbogen Selected 2010 Philip S. Portoghese Medicinal Chemistry Lectureship Awardee
• Dlott and Wieckowski Develop New Powerful Laser Spectrometer

2009

• Dlott Gives Town Talk on Explosions
• White Group Research Reviewed by Multiple Sources
• Small Molecule Inhibits Pathology Associated with Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1
• Moore and Collaborators Deisgn 'First Aid Kit' for Electrical Systems
• Opto-electronic Nose Sniffs Out Toxic Gases
• Rogers' Ultrathin LEDs Create New Classes of Lighting and Display Systems
• Newly Found DNA Catalysts Cleave DNA with Water Molecule
• DNA to Direct and Switch Off Chemo
• Chemical Taste Bud Reveals Sweet Truth
• Rogers Selected as 2009 MacArthur Fellow
• Martin Burke Receives 2009 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award
• Eric Oldfield Wins Soft Matter and Biophysical Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Four Faculty Chosen for Inaugural Class of American Chemical Society Fellows
• Andrzej Wieckowski Appointed Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry
• Ken Suslick Receives 2009 Student Council Mentoring Award from Acoustical Society of America
• Chad Rienstra Wins ICMRBS Founders Medal
• Martin Burke Named HHMI Early Career Scientist
• Scott Denmark Awarded Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods
• Martin Burke Wins 2009 Amgen Young Investigators Award
• Alex Scheeline Receives 2009 Special Grant in the Chemical Sciences
• Wilfred van der Donk Selected as the RSC 2009 Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Lecture Award Winner
• Ben McCall Wins 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship
• Martin Burke Wins 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship
• Ben McCall Receives 2009 Coblentz Award
• Rethinking Brownian Motion with the Emperor's New Clothes
• Flexible Neck in Cell-Receptor DC-SIGN Targets More Pathogens
• Schulten Discovers Toxic Molecule That May Help Birds 'See' North and South
• Boulatov Research Reviewed in Multiple Articles
• Unlike Rubber Bands, Molecular Bonds May Not Break Faster When Pulled
• Speed Marvel and the Amazing Rubber Project
• Researchers Describe 'Implausible' Chemistry that Produces Herbicidal Compound
• Faster Protein Folding Acheived Through Nanosecond Pressure Jump
• John Rogers and the Artificial "Bionic" Eye
• Synthetic Catalyst Mimic Nature's 'Hydrogren Economy'
• New Way to Protect Unstable Boron Reagents
• See the Force: Mechanical Stress Leads to Self-Sensing in Solid Polymers
• Luthey-Schulten Studies Signaling Networks That Set Up Genetic Code
• Killing Tumors
• Braun's Research into Self-Healing Coatings Featured in C & E News
• Chemistry Goes Global in the Virtual World
• Boulatov's New Molecular Force Probe Stretches Molecules, Atom by Atom
• Burke and Spies Honored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• New Drug Agent Knocks Out Multiple Enzymes in Cancer Pathway
• Evolution in a Bottle: Synthetic Life Oozes Closer to Reality
• Team Learns How Cellular Protein Detects Viruses, Spark Immune Response
• New Silver-Based Ink Has Applications in Printed Electronics
• Dancing with the Molecules
• Professor Catherine Murphy to Join Illinois Faculty in August 2009
• John Rogers Selected as 2008 AAAS Fellow
• Eric Oldfield Elected 2008 AAAS Fellow
  

2008

• New Polymer Coatings Prevent Corrosion, Even When Scratched
• Makri Develops New Theoretical Method to Make Unsolvable Equations Solvable
• UI Researchers Using Genetic Relationships to Track Evolution
• Liquid or Solid? Charged nanoparticle in Lipid Membrane Decide
• Organic Synthesis Set for Auto-Pilot
• John Rogers and Colleagues Develop Flexible Silicon Solar Cells
• New Recipe for Self-Healing Plastic Includes Dash of Food Additive
• Hergenrother and Cunninham's Phototonic Crystal Biosensors Detect Protein-DNA Interactions
• Hergenrother Develops New High-Throughput Screening System
• Chemistry Professor to Receive National Medal of Science
• John Rogers Selected as National Secruity Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow
• Huimin Zhao Elected Fellow of the AIMBE
• Martin Gruebele Awarded Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences
• John Katzenellenbogen Receives Leading Edge in Basic Science Award from the Society for Toxicology
• Steve Granick Wins Polymers Physics Prize from the American Physical Society
• Scott Denmark Receives Robert Robinson Lectureship
• Ted Brown Receives 2008 Harry and Carol Mosher Award
• Christina White Wins Abbott Young Investigator Award
• Martin Gruebele Elected to Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
• Wilfred can der Donk Wins SCS Teaching Excellence Award
• John Katzenellenbogen Receives RSC Centenary Lectureship
• Scott Silverman Receives 2009 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
• Huimin Zhao Receives 2008 Young Investigator Award
• Huimin Zhao Recognized as University Scholar
• Martin Burke Wins NSF Career Award
• Molecular Sleuths Track Evolution Through the Ribosome
• Burke Selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "World's Top Innovators under 35"
• Improved Technique Determines Structure in Membrane Proteins
• White Group Research Reviewed in C&E News
• Martin Gruebele's Research Reviewed in Numerous Articles
• Stretchable Silicon Camera Next Step to Artificial Retina
• Gruebele's Research Shows Water is a 'Designer Fluid' That Helps Proteins Change Shape
• Martin Burke Profiled in The Scientist
• Dlott Devises Method to Detect Deadly Fumes, Toxic Gases, and Hidden Explosives
• Killer Pulses Help Characterize Special Surfaces
• John Rogers Research into Nanotube Mesh Featured in Chemistry World
• Rienstra Receives High End Instrumentation Grant from the NIH
• Ryan Bailey Awarded Grant from Carver Trust
• Researchers Observe Spontaneous "Racheting" of Single Ribosome Molecules
• Moore and Rogers Research Reviewed in Nanowerk News
• Moore and Rogers Research Reviewed in RSC Chemistry World Article
• Two University of Illinois Researchers Named HHMI Investigators
• Rienstra Group Research Featured in Chemistry World Article
• Moore Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Clearing the Path to Discovery
• Rauchfuss' Research Into Alternative Fuel Reviewed in 3 Articles
• John Rogers' Research Highlighted in C&E News
• Foldable and Stretchable, Silicon Circuits Conform to Many Shapes
• Moore's Research into Self-Healing Polymers is Featured in The Economist
• White and Sean Reed's Research Reviewed in C&E News
• Can a Computer Have a Sense of Smell?