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McElwee-White Group Publishes in Advanced Functional Materials

Self-Organized Metal-Carbon Multilayers Formed by Ion Beam Induced Deposition from Trimethyl(methylcyclopentadienyl)platinum(IV)

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Pascale Atallah Chemistry Community Service Awards 2026

This annual award recognizes UF Chemistry students who demonstrate significant contributions to community service activities. The award is supported by Dr. Atallah, a UF Chem 2013 PhD alumnus.  

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Andrew Pendergast Joins UF Chemistry

Prof. Pendergast will develop nanoscale electrochemical tools to understand and control reactivity in complex multiphase environments with applications in separations, phase transformations, and electrosynthesis.

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Matthew Tibi, UF Biochemistry Major, Receives 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholarship

Matthew Tibi has been awarded the competitive Barry Goldwater scholarship, which supports the next generation of talented researchers.

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Chemistry Senior Named Finalist for 2026 CLAS Excellence Award

Leah Kessler, a graduating senior, has been named one of just eighteen finalists for the 2026 CLAS Excellence Award. Click to read more about about Leah, her service and research accomplishments.

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Ken Wagener Selected For Two Distinguished Lectureships

During the past two years, Emeritus Chemistry Prof. Ken Wagener has been selected for the S. Dexter Squibb Distinguished Lectureship at UNC/Asheville and the H. Garth Spencer Distinguished Scholar Lectureship at Clemson University.

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Recent Research

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Latest publication from MSREC

Check out the latest study from the Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center: Advantages of the sulfo-phospho-vanillin assay for lipidomics.

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Gut Feeling: UF Scientists Create Synthetic Mucus to Fight IBD

Prof. Brent Sumerlin and Microbiology Assoc. Prof. Luis Roesch team up to create synthetic mucus out of sheer-labile interaction polymers. Click to read the UF News article (photo courtesy of UF News).

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Loesgen Lab Awarded Grant from the Florida Cancer Innovation Fund

Prof. Sandra Loesgen won a grant from the Casey DeSantis Florida Cancer Innovation Fund. Her team will work on the preclinical development of mensacarcin for melanoma and pediatric brain cancers. Click to read the Whitney Lab News article.

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New DNA-Based Imaging Technique Promises to Illuminate Cells and Tissues

UF researchers have developed a DNA-based imaging method that can visualize dozens of biomolecular targets in cells and tissues in just minutes, eliminating the need for complicated instrumentation. This method opens the door to exploring cellular complexity to study cell and tissue functions.

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Electrochemistry Unlocks Low-Temperature Depolymerization

A new study from UF Chemistry introduces the first electrochemically initiated depolymerization of poly(methyl methacrylate), enabling efficient monomer recovery at dramatically lower temperatures. Led by graduate student Graham Gilchrist and coadvised by Profs. Brent Sumerlin and Austin Evans, the work establishes electrochemistry as a powerful new tool for closed-loop recycling of commodity plastics.

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