2014-2015 Townes R. Leigh Prize Recipients Announced

“The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce the recipients of the annual Townes R. Leigh Prizes for outstanding achievement by first year graduate students. This award recognizes excellence in coursework, teaching, research, and written qualifying examinations. The recipients from the 2013 Ph.D. class are Tomohiro Kubo, Christopher Kabb, Matthew Bell, Laura Baily, Olivier Nsengiyumva, … Read more

Khanh Ha received Graduate Student Mentoring Award

“The U.F. Graduate Student Mentoring Award was established in 2012 to recognize graduate students at the University of Florida who take time to help others succeed as graduate or undergraduate students or in K-12 classrooms (i.e., working with K-12 students and/or teachers). The award is particularly designed to acknowledge the mentoring contribution from the graduate … Read more

Molecular MANIA 2014!

“UF’s Department of Chemistry, along with the Center for Catalysis, will be hosting Molecular Mania 2014 at the Oaks mall this Saturday, October 25th, from 10am-3pm in the Belk court area. At this annual event, 40+ graduate student volunteers use 20+ interactive demonstrations to help convey science themes to the youth of the community, in … Read more

Alex Grenning joins the Chemistry Department as an Assistant Professor

“The Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida is pleased to welcome Dr. Alex Grenning as a tenure track Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Grenning received his undergraduate degree from Lake Forest College in 2007 and then pursued Ph.D. studies at The University of Kansas under the direction of Prof. Jon Tunge. As a … Read more

Professor Miller appears on Fox 35 to discuss Gatoresin.

Professor Weihong Tan Selected to The Highly Cited Researchers List.

“Distinguished Professor Weihong Tan is one of 198 chemists worldwide selected to the�Highly Cited Researchers�List 2014 (also called “THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL SCIENTIFIC MINDS 2014″). Quoting from the introduction of the list:”

Professor Weihong Tan Selected to The Highly Cited Researchers List.

Professor Christou Selected to The Highly Cited Researchers List.

“Distinguished Professor George Christou is one of 204 chemists worldwide who have been selected for the�Highly Cited Researchers�list published in 2014 by Thompson Reuters. The list contains over 3200 researchers, spanning 21 broad fields of the sciences and social sciences, who have over the period 2002-2012, “earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of … Read more

Professor Christou Selected to The Highly Cited Researchers List.

Paulo Paioti receives the M.A. Battiste Award.

“We are pleased to announce that the 2014 M. A. Battiste Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, sponsored by Petra Research, was awarded to Paulo Paioti. The award recognizes excellence in synthetic organic chemistry by a 3rd year graduate student who has completed their oral qualifying examination. Mr. Paioti’s work is focused on … Read more

Chemistry

Year: 2014