H A high-school researcher
U An undergraduate researcher
P A postdoctoral researcher
* Recognition external to Biochemistry, Chemistry, ChBE, or Biophysics at UIUC
2025 *Shashank Shastry wins Biophysical Society Travel Award to present at 2026 BPS Annual Meeting in San Fransisco
2025 *Katherine Ritchie wins Biophysical Society Travel Award to present at 2026 BPS Annual Meeting in San Fransisco
2025 Shashank Shastry awarded 2025 Fiddler Innovation Graduate Student Fellowship Award
2025 Katherine Ritchie awarded 2025-2026 MCB/Biophysics Graduate Fellowship
2025 *uLeon Chien awarded the John E. Gieseking Scholarship, Department of Chemistry, 2025
2025 *Bryan Gworek delivers a talk at 2025 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA
2024 *uZaeem Qureshi receives 2024 Fiddler Innovation Award
2024 *uZaeem Qureshi receives NCSA Director’s Recognition Letter
2024 *Sepehr Alaeen wins the Travel Award of the 81th Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, Pittsburgh Diffraction Society, Ithaca, NY.
2024 *uZaeem Qureshi receives NCSA SPIN Summer Internship.
2023 *Melanie Brunet selected to deliver a talk at 2024 BPS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
2023 *Melanie Brunet wins BPS Travel Award to present at 2024 BPS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
2023 *Melanie Brunet (ChBE, Kraft Lab) is awarded NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship F31. Our lab will serve as a co-sponsor.
2023 *Kevin Cheng delivers an invited talk at ACS Central Regional Meeting (CERM), Ann Arbor, Michigan
2023 *uAndrew Lee our graduating senior receives UIUC Senior 100 Honorary recognition
2023 *Kevin Cheng wins the 2023 BPS Students Research Achievement Award (SRAA)
2022 *Kevin Cheng awarded the GRC Board of Trustees Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship
2022 *Mayank Boob wins 2022 Protein Society Symposium Best Poster Award
2022 Our graduate Dr Meredith Rickard co-mentored with Martin Gruebele receives 2021 PChem Dissertation Award and delivers Department of Chemistry seminar
2022 *uHaolin Luo earns the Jackson Merit award for Outstanding thesis, Department of Biochemistry
2022 *uHaolin Luo earns the Highest Distinction recognition, Department of Biochemistry
2022 *Mayank Boob wins the Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology Travel Award 2022 to present at the 36th Protein Society Annual Symposium in San Francisco
2022 *Kevin Cheng wins the Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology Travel Award 2022 to present at BPS Annual Meeting in San Francisco
2022 *Mayank Boob selected to present a talk at 2022 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, San Fransisco, CA
2022 *Kevin Cheng receives Biophysical Society Travel Award to present at 2022 BPS Meeting in San Fransisco
2021 *uJuan David Campolargo and Kevin Cheng selected for the Spring 2022 XSEDE EMPOWER program
2021 *uHaolin Luo receives Fiddler Innovation Fellowship, NCSA
2021 *uAndrew Lee receives Fiddler Innovation Fellowship, NCSA
2021 *Kevin Cheng selected to present a talk at 2022 GRS Protein Folding Dynamics in Oxnard, CA
2021 *uHaolin Luo receives NCSA Director’s Recognition
2021 *Mayank Boob wins Protein Society 35th Anniversary Award
2021 *uHaolin Luo awarded 2021 Jackson Summer Research Fellowship by the Department of Biochemistry
2021 *uHaolin Luo receives NCSA SPIN Summer Internship
2021 *uAndrew Lee receives NCSA SPIN Summer Internship
2020 *uAndrew Lee receives NCSA SPIN 2020/21 Internship
2020 *uAndrew Lee receives the Robert H. Doremus Chemistry Scholarship
2020 *uAndrew Lee receives the Theodore and Audrey Brown Chemistry Scholarship
2020 *uZach Wang receives the Philip J. and Betty M. Anthony Undergraduate Research Prize, Department of Physics
2020 *uAndrew Lee receives NCSA SPIN Summer Internship
2020 *pAshley De Lio selected to attend the NextProf Science NSF-sponsored Workshop hosted by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2020 *Meredith Rickard wins GRS Best Talk Award sponsored by the Protein Society at GRS Protein Folding Dynamics and delivers second talk at the following GRC
2019 *uZach Wang wins Biophysical Society Travel Award to attend the 2020 BPS Annual Meeting in San Diego
2019 *Meredith Rickard selected to present a talk at 2020 GRS Protein Folding in Galveston, TX
2019 *Mayank Boob selected to lead discussions at 2020 GRS Protein Folding in Galveston, TX
2019 *Meredith Rickard is the winner of the Cover Art category in the SCS Science Image Challenge!
2019 *Mayank Boob is a Finalist in the SCS Science Image Challenge!
2019 *Mayank Boob is a Finalist in the Graduate College Research Live!
2019 *uZichen (Zach) Wang NCSA SPIN Internship
2019 *uZichen (Zach) Wang NCSA Director’s Recognition
2019 uRiya Jain, the Dow Undergraduate Summer Research Scholar
2019 Meredith Rickard, the Geerdes Memorial Travel Award in Physical Chemistry
2019 *Meredith Rickard, GRS Proteins, Selected talk
2019 *Meredith Rickard, Protein Folding Consortium, St. Louis, Selected talk
2019 *pAshley De Lio, GRS Computational Aspects of Biomolecular NMR, Selected talk
2019 *pAshley De Lio, GRC Computational Aspects of Biomolecular NMR, Selected talk
2019 *pAshley De Lio, Elected co-chair 2021 GRS Comp. Aspects of Biomolecular NMR
2019 *HArtem Mustaev, the James Scholars Honor Program, UIUC