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2009
Professor Yamamoto has been named the recipient of the 2009 ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor Chuan He and Professor David Mazziotti have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure.
2008
Solar system book dedicated to Professor Robert Clayton. Press Release
Professor Chuan He has been named a recipient of the 2008 Burroughs Wellcome Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award.
Congratulations to 4th year Chemistry major Donnie Bungum who won a prestigious British Marshall Scholarship for graduate study at Oxford University. Press Release
Professor Dmitri Talapin received an NSF CAREER Award.
Professor Greg Engel was named a recipient of an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator award.
Professor Sergey Kozmin to direct the new Chicago Tri-Institutional Center for Chemical Methods and Library Development. Press Release
Professor Yamamoto was named the recipient of the 2009 ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor Chuan He and Professor David Mazziotti were promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure.
Solar system book dedicated to Professor Robert Clayton. Press Release
Professor Chuan He was named a recipient of the 2008 Burroughs Wellcome Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award.
Professor Lee was promoted to the rank of Professor.
Researchers, led by Professor Chuan He, reveal structure of protein that repairs damage to cancer cells. Press Release
Congratulations to incoming graduate students Justin Caram who received a 2008 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Raman Shah who received both a National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Congratulations to undergraduate chemistry majors John Anderson '08, Aaron Puri '08, Stephen Heller '05, and Matthew Reid '04 who received 2008 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
Congratulations to junior chemistry majors Donnie Bungum and Erin Mowers who are 2008 recipients of the nationally competitive and highly prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. Press Release
Professor David Mazziotti has been named by Microsoft as one of the ten recipients of its Newton Breakthrough Award.
Congratulations to biological chemistry major Matt Biancalana '08 who received a Churchill Scholarship. Press Release
Professor Aaron Dinner has been named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.
Professor Chuan He and Professor David Mazziotti have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure, effective July 1.
Professor Ismagilov was promoted to the rank of Professor.
2007
Professor Lee was named a recipient of a 2007 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Press Release
Professor Ismagilov was named the recipient of a Pioneer Award from the National Institute of Health, and the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry. Press Release
Professor Engel was named a recipient of a Camille Dreyfus New Faculty Award.
Professor Lee was named a recipient of a Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Press Release
The department welcomes Professor Talapin to its faculty.
Professor Freed elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Sibener elected as a Visiting Fellow of JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics).
Professor Mazziotti named a recipient of a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
The department welcomes Professor Engel to its faculty.
Professor Yamamoto has been named a recipient of a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Congratulations to first year graduate students Catherine Poor (Chuan He) and Britini Ratliff (Laurie Butler) who received 2007 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
Congratulations to undergraduate chemistry majors David Adamson '07, Doran Bennett '07, Zak Gates  '07, Jeff Mugridge '06, and Robin Scheffler '07 who received 2007 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
Congratulations to chemistry majors Matt Biancalana '08 and Zach Rodgers '08 who received prestigious 2007 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships.
Professor Yamamoto named a recipient of the Japan Academy Prize.
Professor Ismagilov and coauthors received the 2006 Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences. Press Release
Professor Mazziotti received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
2006
Professor Sibener elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Professor Yin received a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award.
Professor Yamamoto received the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry.
Professor He named a recipient of a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
Professor Scherer named a recipient the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship University Press Release
The department welcomes Professor Yin to its faculty
2005
Professor Mrksich elected as a 2005 fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science University Press Release
Professor Mazziotti received a 2005 Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering University Press Release
Professor He received a 2005 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
Professor Clayton was named a recipient of the National Medal of Science. University Press Release::Photo
Professor Levy was named the recipient of the E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy.
Professor Norris teams up with surgeon to shed light on the retina. University Press Release
Professor Ismagilov was named a recipient of a 2005 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award.
Professor He was named a 2005 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation.
Professor Dinner was named a 2005 Searle Scholar.
Professor He was named a Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
Professor Mrksich was selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. University Press Release

Professor Kozmin received a 2005 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Professor Mazziotti and Professor He have received Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships.
Professor Kozmin has received the 2005 GlaxoSmithKline Chemistry Scholar Award.
Professor Ismagilov was named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. White House Press Release
Professor Ismagilov was named a recipient of the 2005 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society.
2004
Professor He has been named a W. M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research.
Professor Yu has received a Special Creativity Award from the National Science Foundation.
Professor Kozmin had been named an American Cancer Society Research Scholar for 2004-2007.
On June 11th Professor Rice reached a teaching milestone, graduating his 100th Ph.D. student. full story
The Alumni Association has selected Professor Oka as a recipient of this year's Norman Maclean Faculty Award.
Professor Ismagliov has been named a 2004 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation.
Professor Kozmin has been named a recipient of the 2004 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
Professor He'sdevelopment of metal ion biosensors based on MerR family proteins isfeatured in C&E News.
Professor Bosnichhas been named the Gustavus F. and Anne M. Swift Distinguished ServiceProfessor.
Professor Oka willreceive an honorary degree in Physics and Astronomy from UniversityCollege London.
2003
Professor Schererhas been named a 2003 Fellow of the American Physical Society, "for hisseminal contributions to the techniques of ultrafast spectroscopy andtheir application to fundamental problems in condensed phase dynamics."
Professor Ismagilovreceived an NSF 2004 CAREER award.
ELECTED 2003AAAS FELLOWS: The American Association for the Advancement ofScience has elected two of our faculty members as 2003 fellows: Prof. Rawal and Prof. Yamamoto.
 
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