A recent report by the research groups of Profs. Snee and Hu revealed heretofore known problems with converting energy from inorganic sensitizers to organic dyes. Examples of such coupled systems include quantum dot-organic…
Our deparment held Undergraduate Awards Day on Apr. 14. Speaking was Wink/Cho group alumnus Dr. Jeong Choe, with awards given to the following students: Outstanding Performance in Honors General Chemistry, Karylle Baltazar, David…
The Department of Chemistry will host the Career and Undergraduate Research Fair on April 21st. There are speakers from Lilly, AbbVie, and DTI, who will discuss their career paths, as well as an…
The dept. of Chemistry sends condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Prof. George Crabtree, who passed on January 23. Prof. Crabtree was a member of the physics department and collaborated with…
A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago and Princeton University have reported a new fluorescent material, called a type II “giant” quantum dot, that has shattered existing records on emission…
The University of Illinois Chicago’s status among the country’s top public national universities continues to grow as the institution rose four spots to tie for 42nd in the 2022-2023 U.S. News & World…
UIC Chemistry faculty have just published a paper in Nature Chemical Biology. The paper describes the first-in-class kinase inhibitor for the most common type of leukemia called acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This novel inhibitor…
Michael Trenary has won the 2022 Outstanding Researcher Award from the Prairie Chapter of the American Vacuum Society, which was conferred at the chapter’s annual symposium held at the University of Notre Dame…
Ruixuan Gao, UIC assistant professor of chemistry and biological sciences, has been named the recipient of the 2022-23 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award! He will lead a project to chemically engineer a…
The Nguyen group has developed a new class of porous materials (called UIC-1) that can remarkably mimic protein active sites to a much higher degree than previous porous frameworks as recently reported in…