Department of Chemistry News

Wilfred van der Donk has won the 2008 SCS Teaching Excellence Award. Only three awards were granted this year throughout SCS.

Chad Rienstra has been selected by the SCS Committee on Staff to receive the 2008 SCS Teaching Award.

Huimin Zhao has been selected as a recipient of the 2008 Young Investigator Award from the Division of Biochemical Technology of the American Chemical Society.

Huimin Zhao, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and chemistry, has been selected as one of six University of Illinois professors to win the University Scholars Award.

Professor Martin Burke wins the 2008 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Professor Christina White was awarded the 2008-2009 Pfizer Award for Creativity in Organic Chemistry.

Professor Paul J. Hergenrother of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently chosen to receive the 2008 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry.

Professor John Hartwig of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently chosen to receive the 2008 Paul N. Rylander Award from the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society.

Professor Ralph Nuzzo of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently selected as a 2007 Fellow of AVS.

Professor Scott Silverman of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently selected as a 2007 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Professor Christina White's 2007 Eli Lilly Grantee Award will include an unrestricted research grant, and the opportunity to deliver a lecture at the 14th biennial Lilly Grantee Symposium.

Charity Flener, a student in the Girolami and Dunning groups, has just been awarded a scholarship by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for the 2008-2009 year.

Mark Chen, a fourth year graduate student in the White Group, has recently been awarded the 2008 Excellence in Chemistry Award from Roche Pharmaceuticals.

Dan Palacios, a student in the Burke Group, has been selected to receive the 2008 Robert M. Scarborough Award from the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

Tom Anderson, a student in the Burke Group, has just received the Ruth L. Kirchstein Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellowship from the NIH.

Jaclyn Murphy, a student in the Hartwig Group, has won the 2007-2008 Nelson J. Leonard ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship.