The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Chemistry News - Summer 2005
- Professor of Chemistry and Astronomy Benjamin McCall is the recipient of a prestigious NSF CAREER grant titled, CAREER: Spectroscopy of Carbocations in the Laboratory and the Interstellar Medium.
- New faculty member, Martin Burke, has been awarded a 2005 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award.
- Professor Neil Kelleher's research was profiled in a News-Gazette article, "Professor honored for his top-down protein approach," 8/10/05.
- NPR's Earth and Sky produced a radio article featuring Professor Paul Hergenrother's research.
- Using a technique called ultrasonic spray pyrolysis, Professor Ken Suslick and Sara Skrabalak have created an improved catalyst for removing smelly sulfur-containing compounds from gasoline and other fossil fuels.
- Illinois chemists spray their way to better catalysts
- Michael Arnold has been selected as one of 10 recipients of a 5,000 Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
- The research of Professor Scott Silverman and Chandrasekhar Miduturu was described in a News Bureau article and also in the C-U News Gazette.
- DNA constraints control structure of attached macromolecules
- Gaining an understanding of lipid mobility and subsequently cell membrane function is the subject of Steve Granick's research that was featured in two articles.
- Professor Paul Hergenrother's research is highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News, June 20.
- Stephen Sligar elected a Fellow of of the World Innovation Foundation and receives a NSF Human Frontiers Science Program Research Award.
- Neil Kelleher was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for 2004 in Washington D. C. on June 13, 2005.
- Neil Kelleher chosen as 2004 Presidential Early Career Awardee
- Professor Chad Rienstra has been selected to be a NCSA/UIUC Fellow for 2005-2006.
- By creating molecular 'bridge,' scientists change function of a protein
