Our work “Optical Spectroscopic Probing and Atomic Visualization of the Motion of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes on Ag(111)” was published by ACS Nano. Here, we combined tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to study the mobility of NHC.ACS Nano

If you’ve even been to the #StPatricksDay parade in downtown Chicago, you’ve witnessed to a colorful tradition, bigger even than the whole green beer thing. The tradition of dyeing the river for Saint Patrick’s Day goes back to 1962. cen.acs.org/environment/wa…

3. Our gratitude to these heroes and their sacrifices is therefore eternal.

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

My story is one of thousands wrapped up in the initial cancellation of $400 million in federal funding targeting Columbia University, a shocking $250 million of which is NIH funding... 4/

"If we work together we all end up having a better world." Born #OTD in 1943, Mario Molina was awarded the 1995 chemistry prize for showing that CFCs damage the ozone layer. He was passionate about solutions to look after Earth. Thanks to his work CFCs were banned worldwide.

Cuts to federal research funding, threats to indirect costs that support research, and revocation of previously awarded grants from the NSF and NIH in the first weeks of President Donald J. Trump’s second administration have roiled academia. cen.acs.org/careers/employ…

👉This week in the C&EN Magazine: Frances H. Arnold forges ahead + Green glues: Will they stick? + How rising temperatures affect the human brain: cen.acs.org/magazine/103/1…

This is one of the most famous images in photographic history. The first ever X-ray image was taken in 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen – who was then awarded the first #NobelPrize in Physics in 1901. Read the story, 'A Helping Hand from the Media': bit.ly/2S3TlUS

Remembering the youngest person awarded a Nobel Prize in the sciences (so far) - Lawrence Bragg. He became a laureate at just 25 years old along with his father, “for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.”

As Chicago's only public research university, UIC knows that research matters. Over the next several weeks, UIC will highlight the impactful research happening across campus and the importance of investing in this work. We invite you to do the same using #UICResearchMatters

A small molecule shaped like a lasso may be a powerful tool in the fight against infectious diseases, according to a new study in Nature co-authored by University of Illinois Chicago researchers. Read more: today.uic.edu/lasso-shaped-a…

Congratulations to the following LAS Faculty for winning UIC Research & Scholarship 2024-2025 Annual Awards. Your excellence at UIC is valued, and we appreciate all your hard work! ✨ Read more 👉 today.uic.edu/uic-research-a…

NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts.  MSNBC

Niels Bohr’s groundbreaking paper proposing a new atomic model, 'On the constitution of atoms and molecules' is dated 5 April 1913. It was published in July of the same year. Bohr was awarded the #NobelPrize in Physics in 1922.

Congratulations to the team! #UICproud

The first letter of the genetic code was cracked on 27 May 1961 around three o'clock in the morning by Marshall Nirenberg and his post doctoral fellow Heinrich Matthaei, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read more: bit.ly/2J6gbJj

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A $2M gift from a University of Illinois Chicago alum will help build the Drug Discovery and Cancer Research Pavilion. Here, UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy, Chemistry at UIC, UICentre for Drug Discovery and the Cancer Center will unite to develop better, more equitable disease treatments. #CancerResearch bit.ly/4kgGmgd

The Department of Chemistry at The University of Chicago is excited to invite applications for tenure-track Assistant Professor of Chemistry positions in the research areas of Origins of Life or Inorganic Chemistry, broadly defined. Joint appointments with other departments are