Professor Diwakar Shukla has received the 2026 Computational Molecular Science & Engineering Forum (CoMSEF) Impact Award for Modeling and Simulation from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AlChE). This award recognizes outstanding research in computational molecular science and engineering, encompassing both methods and...
Faculty Spotlights
Three University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the United States. Deana McDonagh, Kenneth Suslick and...
Diwakar Shukla, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received a five-year, $1.75 million Pivot Research Award from Simons Foundation International to develop a transformative, artificial intelligence-enabled approach to crop engineering aimed at making plants more...
Assistant professor Alexa Kuenstler has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award to further her work in responsive polymeric systems. Kuenstler’s project, Connecting Microscopic Rearrangements to Macroscopic Flow in Dynamic Covalent...
Illinois faculty member Liviu Mirica, William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of Chemistry, has recently been selected through three distinguished university programs to focus on developing collaborations toward his research group's interests in developing metal-containing imaging agents for biological applications.Last year, he was...
Research led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Hyunjoon Kong and chemistry professor Hee-Sun Han, and performed by Ryan Miller, currently a post-doctoral fellow at Georgia Tech, has unveiled a breakthrough technology that could transform the way scientists build and study lab-grown brain...
Several faculty members from the School of Chemical Sciences have recently been recognized. Chemistry professors Angad Mehta and Lisa Olshansky were among 126 recipients of the 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.In addition...
Associate Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Simon A. Rogers has been named Editor-in-Chief of Rheologica Acta, the official journal of The European Society of Rheology. The journal was established to “advance the science of rheology, by publishing high quality peer reviewed articles, invited reviews...