Ruixuan Gao, UIC assistant professor of chemistry and biological sciences, has been named a 2022 Searle Scholar! He is the second UIC scholar to receive the award, which supports ground-breaking research in chemistry…
Dendritic cells (DCs) are sentinels of the immune system — they capture, escort, and present foreign invaders, known as antigens, to mediate the immune response. Vaccines rely on DCs to induce cellular immunity,…
The Jiang group’s new article entitled “Chemically identifying single adatoms with single-bond sensitivity during oxidation reactions of borophene” was published by Nature Communications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29445-8). In this work, they used ultrahigh vacuum tip-enhanced Raman…
Two undergraduate researchers, Alexa Cabrera and Assma Ali, have published a report in the journal Computational and Theoretical Chemistry with Profs. Yermolina and Papadantonakis. Alexa Cabrera is a 2022 graduate and will join…
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…
Alum Joel Krooswyk and his wife, Amanda, recently welcomed a baby boy, Owen, into the world. Joel started his scientific career as an undergraduate researcher at UIC and eventually graduated with a Ph.D.…
Our own Sara Siddiqui, an undergraduate senior majoring in chemistry at UIC, has won an NSF GRFP award that supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and…
Six rising scholars at the University of Illinois Chicago have earned the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation, including Chemistry’s Stephanie Cologna and Minjung Ryu. The UIC researchers’…
An article from UIC’s Snee group and researchers from Prof. Haw Yang’s group at Princeton, “Leveraging lifetime information to perform real-time 3D single-particle tracking in noisy environments” published in the Journal of Chemical…
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:…