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2025 SCS Science Image Challenge Deadline Extended
The deadline for submissions in our 2025 SCS Science Image Challenge has been extended. The new deadline is 12:00 Noon on Tuesday, December 2.We invite graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral associates/fellows, and staff members (excluding Faculty members) of the School...
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New lab dedicated in memory of Prof. Peter A. Beak
 From left to right: Catherine J. Murphy, Venetria K. Patton, Michael Garst, Sandra Beak, Charles L. Isbell Jr., and Paul Kenis prepare to cut the ribbon, officially opening the Peter Beak Advanced Synthesis Laboratory.A fully renovated instructional chemistry facility in Noyes Laboratory has...
Male undergraduate working in lab using PPE
Research Support Grants
The Illinois Office of Undergraduate Research (https://undergradresearch.illinois.edu/) is an excellent resource for undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing research opportunities on campus.  They provide funding for...
Undergraduate Research Symposium April 28, 2022 Picture with research and college style clipart over a red square.
2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS)
The signature event of Undergraduate Research Week, the URS has been held on our campus since 2008. During the URS, students have the opportunity to present their work in concurrent oral or poster presentations and creative performances. We welcome presentations of both in-progress and completed...
Kyle Timmer & Aravind Baby
SCS Graduate Students Selected as Research Live! Finalists
Two graduate students from labs within the School of Chemical Sciences have been selected as Research Live! finalists.  Aravind Baby (Rodriguez-Lopez lab) and Kyle Timmer (Harley lab) are among the twelve finalists selected. Finalists will compete for...
The 2023 SEBPIES speakers, from left, Dr. Melanie Rodriguez, Dr. Lauren Hagler, and Dr. Jeanne N'Diaye
2024 St. Elmo Brady Postdoctoral Inclusive Excellence Symposium Applications Open
The Department of Chemistry encourages postdoctoral researchers to apply for the 2024 St. Elmo Brady Postdoctoral Inclusive Excellence Symposium (SEBPIES) by April 1, 2024...
Ben Snyder

Faculty Spotlight: Ben Snyder named 2025 Packard Fellow

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Benjamin Snyder, professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been named a 2025 Packard Fellow by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.The Foundation recognized Snyder for his research “developing new methods to define and precisely control catalyst structure, and therefore function, at the atomic scale.” He is among 20 distinguished early-career scientists and engineers selected for the 2025 class of Packard Fellows who will receive $875,000 over five years to support their...

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School Spotlight: Yin receives AIChE PD2M Student Award

Chemical and biomolecular engineering graduate student Song Yin has received the Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development and Manufacturing (PD2M) Student Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The PD2M student award is presented to graduate students in AIChE who have submitted an oral or poster presentation, received a letter of support from a faculty member that describes their research activities, and whose presentation has potential relevance to pharmaceutical discovery, development and manufacturing.The sponsors of this award include Pfizer Inc. and Eli Lilly...