Our own Xiaojing Yang, together with Minglei Zhao of the University of Chicago, won a Chicago Biomecdical Consortium Grant for their project titled, “Observing Protein Allostery Dynamics by Single-Particle Imaging.” The $250K grant…
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…
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…
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…
The Wonhwa Cho Graduate Fellowship for Chemistry is a newly installed fellowship that supports four outstanding, incoming graduate students in all areas of chemistry for their first two years of study. All students…
Professor Huan-Xiang Zhou will join the UIC faculty this month as the first ever LAS Science Endowed Chair in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics. Prof. Zhou is moving from Florida State University where he established…
Prof. Justin Lorieau’s JACS article has been featured on the very first JACS Young Investigator Virtual Issue: http://pubs.acs.org/page/jacsat/vi/young-investigator2017.html. Each JACS Associate Editor selects an article from the last couple of years from a Young Investigator…
Prof. Preston Snee’s group, in collaboration with researchers from Argonne National Lab and Northwestern University, have revealed a new dynamic that affects how doped semiconductors conduct charge: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.7b04414. The group used excited state…
Dr. Pratibha Varma-Nelson, who got her PhD from UIC in 1978, will receive the 2018 recipient of the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education from the American Chemical Society (http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i33/ACS-2018-national-award-winners.html. This recognizes…