The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Chemistry News - Fall 2004
- Professor Thomas Rauchfuss was elected to be chair of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the ACS for 2006.
- Professor Paul Hergenrother's research group is developing a new method for combating antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
- Molecular technique shows promise in destroying drug resistance in bacteria
- The microfluidic fuel cell research of Professor Ralph Nuzzo's group was highlighted in the October issue of Today's Chemist at Work.
- Paul Kelter Elected 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
- Thom H. Dunning Jr. to lead National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Emad Tajkhorshid and Professor Klaus Schulten won the AAAS 2004 Visualization Challenge, Illustration category for their image of the complex machinery a cell uses to exchange water with its environment.
- Professor Dana Dlott and colleagues had an article published in Science Express Web describing their research monitoring the energy flow through molecules.
- At Molecular Scale, Vibrational Couplings Define Heat Conduction
- Faculty member featured in LASNews - Kenneth Suslick - "Molecules Are His Medium"
- Faculty members featured in LASNews - Neil Kelleher and Wilfred van der Donk - "From Curds, a New Way to Make Antibiotics"
- Joseph Rule (Jeffrey Moore's group) was given a travel award to give a talk at the ACS national meeting in Philadelphia.
- University of Illinois to host new NIH Neuroproteomics Center.
