Correia, Goforth, and Guillet Selected for CENTC Summer School

“Graduate students Marie Correia , Sarah Goforth, and Gary Guillet have been selected to participate in the second biennial CENTC Summer School. The Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis (CENTC) will provide 80 graduates students, postdocs, and faculty from PUIs with travel and accommodations to attend their summer school in catalysis at the University … Read more

Yan Chen awarded the AAW Emerging Scholar Award and Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship Award

“Yan Chen, a graduation student of Chemistry in Dr. Weihong Tan’s research group, has been awarded the 2010 Association for Academic Women (AAW) Emerging Scholar Award and Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship Award. Yan is one of only two graduate students to receive this prestigious award from the University of Florida in 2010. The recipients will … Read more

Wei awarded the 2010 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

“W. David Wei, Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the 2010 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Professor Wei is one of only 32 junior faculty members to receive this award in 2010. The recipients will each receive $5,000 in “seed money” for the 2010-2011 … Read more

Matt Andrus Awarded Eastman Summer Fellowship

“Matt Andrus has been named as recipient of the 2010 Eastman Summer Fellowship sponsored by Eastman Chemical Company. Matt received his B.S. in Chemistry from Siena College in 2004 and joined our Ph.D. program in the 2009 class. His research, under the direction of Prof. Talham, involves the nanochemistry of coordination polymers. Most recently, this … Read more

Green Polymers Invention Reaches Final Four in Cade Prize for Innovation

“2010 is the inaugural year for the Cade Prize for Innovation. The award is named after the University of Florida Professor of Medicine Dr. J. Robert Cade, who was the lead inventor of the sports drink Gatorade. The winning project will be chosen from over 100 applications across the State of Florida and will receive … Read more

2010-2011 Ruegamer Fellows Announced

The William and Arlene Ruegamer Biochemistry Fellows for 2010-2011 are Natasha Pirman and Jeffrey Carter. Natasha received her BS in chemistry from Lee University in 2005 and is studying intrinsically disordered proteins using site-directed spin-labeling electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Jeffrey graduated from Virginia Tech in 2006 and is studying the physical and structural characteristics that … Read more

Cohn and Park Selected to Participate in Inaugural Graduate Research Symposium

“Pamela Cohn and Jongwoo Park, both graduate students in the Organic Division, have been selected for participation in the inaugural Graduate Research Symposium hosted by the American Chemical Society’s Division of Organic Chemistry. Between 50 and 75 fourth year organic graduate students were selected from across the United States to present their research at the … Read more

Murray to join UF as Assistant Professor

“Leslie Murray received B.A. degrees in Chemistry and Biology from Swarthmore College. Subsequently, he pursued a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry under the direction of Stephen Lippard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied dioxygen activation at the diiron active site in toluene/o-xylene monooxygenase. His post-doctoral research under Jeffrey Long at the University of California, … Read more

UF Graduate Student Poole Receives NSF GRFP Fellowship

“Katye Poole, a graduate student in the inorganic division, was awarded a NSF GRFP fellowship which provides three years of support. Katye received B.S. degrees in chemistry and psychology from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis in 2008, where she worked with Dr. Ted O’Brien on computational inorganic chemistry, including a collaboration with Dr. George Christou. … Read more

2010 ACS Award for Professor Merz

“Professor Kenneth Merz received the 2010 ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research at the official Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, held in conjunction with the 239th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA. This award recognizes the advances he has made in the use of quantum mechanics to solve biological … Read more

Chemistry

Year: 2010