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…
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…
Mike Stieff’s recent article in the Journal of Chemical Education, “Improving Learning Outcomes in Secondary Chemistry with Visualization-Supported Inquiry Activities”, has been selected to be featured in ACS Editor’s Choice. ACS Editor’s Choice…
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 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.…
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. Ryu’s 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, Label‐free Proteomics in the Symptomatic Niemann‐Pick, 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…
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…
