The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Chemistry News - Spring 2006
- David Gin to receive Horace S. Isbell Award from the ACS Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry
- A presentation by Professor Yi Lu was selected by the Materials Research Society as one of the "Top 5 Hot Talks/Cool Papers" from the 2006 MRS spring meeting.
- Professor Paul J. Hergenrother receives the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
- Deborah Leckband was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Todd Martínez was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
- Ken Suslick delivered the Harold S. Johnston Lecture in Physical Chemistry for 2006 from the College of Chemistry of the University of California, Berkeley, in February, 2006.
- Professor Paul Hergenrother has been named an I. C. Gunsalus Scholar for 2006-2007.
- Assistant Professor Huimin Zhao receives a Helen Corley Petit Award for 2006.
- Professor of Chemistry, M. Christina White was awarded a prestigious NSF CAREER grant titled, "Catalytic Organotransition Metal Chemistry: C-C Bond Forming Reactions via Allylic C-H Bond Activation".
- Congratulations to Joseph P. Gerdt, who was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
- John Rogers' research was selected as an emerging technology by the MIT Technology Review.
- UIUC Physics Professor Klaus Schulten and collaborators at Illinois and the University of California at Irvine have used the computing power of the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications to produce a computer simulation of an entire life form at atomic detail.
- John Hartwig will be awarded the 2006 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia in March.
- Neil Kelleher will receive the 2006 Arthur F. Findeis Award at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia in March.
- The Granick group's lipid, nanoparticle research was featured in:"Nanoparticles create biocompatible capsules," UIUC News Bureau, 3/6/2006.
- Nanoparticles create biocompatible capsules
- Scott Denmark will be awarded the Yamada-Koga Prize on Oct. 27 at the 16th Symposium on Optically Active Compounds in Tokyo.
- Benita S. Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology, and Center for Advanced Study Professor, and John A. Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Chemistry, have been selected to jointly receive the prestigious Roy O. Greep Lecture Award for 2006 from The Endocrine Society.
- Scott Denmark wins an Excellence in Chemistry Award, sponsored by Astra-Zeneca. Professor Denmark was made a 2005 Distinguished Lecturer.
- Professor Martin Gruebele's research perfecting single molecule absorption spectroscopy was mentioned in C&E News.
- Joseph P. Gerdt, an undergraduate researcher with Scott Silverman, was awarded a $1,000 Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research.
- Professor Yi Lu is again in the news with another article about his self correcting nanomaterial assembly process.
