Wonhwa Cho is the recipient of the 2026 Biophysical Society Award in Biophysics of Health and Disease. This is his second major award he has received from the Biophysical Society. The press release…
Congratulations to Professor Ruixuan Gao and graduate student Wei Wang on their recent publication in Science, titled âMesoscale volumetric fluorescence imaging at nanoscale resolution by photochemical sectioning.â Their innovative technique enables high-resolution, three-dimensional reconstruction…
Graduate student Soumyajit Rajak, a member of Prof. Nan Jiangâs research group, has won the 2025 Morton M. Traum Surface Science Student Award from the American Vacuum Society (AVS). The award was presented…
The press release announcing this exciting news  is on the BPS website and in other sites shown below. BPS Newsroom – https://www.biophysics.org/news-room/biophysical-society-announces-2026-society-fellows Newswise – https://www.newswise.com/articles/biophysical-society-announces-2026-society-fellows EurekAlert – https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1099454
Two of our undergraduate students, senior Maggie Czyz and junior Fatou Dioum, presented their research at the East Central Illinois ACS Undergraduate Research Conference in Urbana-Champaign on Oct. 28. Maggie was an invited…
Prof. Rui Gao has won the NIH Directorâs New Innovator Award. Established in 2007, this prestigious and highly competitive award supports highly innovative research from promising Early Stage Investigators and provides generous research…
Profs. Justin Mohr and Preston Snee were honored with teaching awards in the 2022 academic year. Prof. Mohr was honored with the Silver Circle Award, which since 1966 has been presented to some…
Prof. Mankad was recently named the Chair-Elect for the Organometallic Subdivision of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry, the oldest division within the ACS! A list of elected officers can be found here:…
Congratulations to Thu (Mi) Nguyen, a doctoral candidate in Prof. Stephanie Cologna’s group, for receiving the Better Science through Better Data writing competition from Nature Publishing. An announcement is here.
Prof. Nan Jiang has received the recommendation of his proposal, entitled âCAREER: Probing Chemistry of Surface-Supported Nanostructure at the Angstrom-Scaleâ, as a CAREER Award from National Science Foundation. The CAREER is a prestigious…
Prof. Hanley was honored at the LAS Distinguished Professor Award Ceremony and Lecture on Nov. 20. He has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) since 1990. He…
Jeremy Schultz won the Graduate Research Award for the Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division of the American Vacuum Society. The Graduate Competition is held at the annual AVS International Symposium to highlight and…
UIC alumnus Dr. Marvin Parasram and alumna Dr. Jenny S. Martinez were engaged Aug. 30 in the Science And Engineering South building, where they met and spent most of their time while enrolled…
Mike Stieffâs recent article in the Journal of Chemical Education, âImproving Learning Outcomes in Secondary Chemistry with Visualization-Supported Inquiry Activitiesâ, has been selected to be featured in ACS Editorâs Choice. ACS Editorâs Choice…
Several UIC educators presented at this summer’s Gordon Research Conference, “Chemistry Education Research and Practice”, held at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Presenting were Prof. Don Wink, Loredana Huma, Hongyang Zhang, Stephanie Werner…
The UIC Chemistry Department recently hired Dr. Russell J. Hemley as our newest Physical Chemistry faculty member! The Hemley group explores the nature of materials in extreme environments, specifically high pressures, and temperatures.…
Five of our graduate students were awarded with the Teaching Assistant of the Year award during a ceremony recently; honorees include Erik Askins, Sepalika Bandara, Jesbaniris Bas Concepcion, Yanxiao Han, Zoe Petros, Yuki…
The Jiang group in our department have applied their imaging and spectroscopy methods to distinguish two structurally very close structural skeletons (regioisomers) with 8 Angstrom spatial resolution. In selective heterogeneous catalysis reaction, two…
The UIC Chemistry Department recently hired Dr. Minjung Ryu as our newest Chemistry Education faculty member! Dr. Ryuâs research focuses on issues of diversity and equity in chemistry education and more broadly in…
Melissa Pergande received a Women in Research Travel Award from Cayman Chemicals, having just published two papers (“Quantitative, Labelâfree Proteomics in the Symptomatic NiemannâPick, Type C1 Mouse Model Using Standard Flow Liquid Chromatography…
The UIC Chemistry Department recently hired Dr. Andy Nguyen as our newest Inorganic / Bioinorganic chemistry faculty member! Prof. Nguyen’s research aims to transpose the features that make metalloproteins highly effective functional molecules…
Two of our faculty have reported substantial new findings in several publications. Prof. Stephanie Cologna recently published “Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Lipids: Generation of Untargeted Consensus Spectra Reveals Spatial Distributions in Niemann-Pick Disease,…
It is our great pleasure to announce that Marija Zoric, a PhD student in the Glusac group at UIC’s Chemistry Department, has received the 2018 Gerhard Closs award. This prestigious award is given annually by…
Congratulations to alum Dr. Marvin Parasram on being selected to receive a 2018 Annual Graduate College Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Award for his doctoral dissertation titled âDevelopment of Heck and Desaturation Reactions Involving…
Congratulations to undergraduate student Kayla Storme on being selected to receive a 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship! This program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering,…
Our own Prof. Leslie Wo-Mei Fung has won the 2018 Silver Circle Award! Since 1966 the Silver Circle is the highest teaching honor that the University bestows upon the faculty. Prof. Fung will…
The Cabana group in our department and researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new technique that lets them pinpoint the location of chemical reactions happening inside lithium-ion batteries in…
The College of Liberal Arts and Science (LAS) is pleased to announce the investiture of Professor and Head of Chemistry, Wonhwa Cho, as its Inaugural LAS Endowed Chair in the Natural Sciences. Professor…
Prof. Jordi Cabana is part of a collaborative team that received a Scialog Award in Advanced Energy Storage by the Research Corporation For Science Advancement. The team is also composed of two faculty…
