Graduate students Marco Messina (Maynard Group), Lucas Morrill (Garg Group), and Adam Simon (Houk Group) have been named the 2017 Senior Foote Fellows.   The Christopher S. Foote fellowship in Organic Chemistry recognizes organic students’ accomplishments in graduate studies and research as well as their performance on the Qualifying Examination for the Ph.D. degree. The recipients, […]

An article by Professor Neil Garg and former graduate student Dr Tejas Shah appeared in the “In the Classroom” section of the newest Nature journal.   BACON stands for Biology and Chemistry Online Notes and it is a series of online learning modules that help students learn organic chemistry – a subject which is considered […]

Professor Catherine Murphy (University of Illinois) gave the first Inorganic Nano-Materials Seminar on Friday, February 10th. The seminar, titled “Gold Nanocrystals: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Ecology” was sponsored by MilliporeSigma (formerly Sigma-Aldrich).  It took place in the recently renovated chemistry & biochemistry lecture hall, CS76. After the seminar, an award plaque was presented to Murphy […]

Chemistry undergraduate researcher Paul Chong (Spokoyny group) has been named a Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar.  The prestigious program matches chemistry and chemical engineering students to internships at Fortune 500 companies. Chong was placed at his top pick – Hexion, Inc., a global leader in thermoset resins in Stafford, Texas. In addition to the […]

Professor Heather Maynard awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant, allowing her to visit New Zealand to provide her expertise in biohybrid polymeric materials. “I am thrilled to be awarded a Fulbright Specialist Grant. My time spent in New Zealand is certain to be fruitful, providing the environment to generate new research ideas and initiate new collaborations […]

Graduate student Elaine Qian (Spokoyny lab) is one of ten female students nationally to receive the ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Travel Award. “I’m very grateful to the WCC and Eli Lilly & Company for this exciting opportunity, and I look forward to presenting my research and learning about the excellent work being done in […]

Renowned theoretical chemist Professor James Skinner (University of Chicago) gave the 2017 Daniel Kivelson Lecture on February 6th.  Skinner’s lecture titled “Supercooled Water: Three-Body Interactions, IR Spectra in No Man’s Land, and the Liquid-Liquid Critical Point” was followed by a reception. The lecture celebrates and honors the life and career of UCLA physical chemistry professor […]

Professor Heather Maynard has been elected a 2017 Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Maynard’s election reflects the recognition of the many impactful contributions she has made to the field of polymer science and engineering, specifically “for outstanding contributions to the synthesis of bio hybrid polymeric materials and […]