Chemistry

The Keaffaber Scholar Award recognizes the overall excellence in research and academic scholarship of one of our senior chemistry majors.  To be eligible for the award, the undergraduate must be research active within the Department of Chemistry and committed to pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry.  This year, the recipients of the Keaffaber Scholar Award are … Read more

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Dr. Kamat, in MSREC, has won the “Females in Mass Spectrometry Empowerment Award”.This award helps offset conference attendance costs of females in mass spec fields of research.

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We are pleased to announce that the 2021 M. A. Battiste Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, sponsored by Petra Research, was awarded to Subhradeep Dutta. The award recognizes excellence in synthetic organic chemistry by a 3rd year graduate student who has completed their oral qualifying examination. Subhradeep’s work is focused on developing … Read more

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The W. M. Jones Award for Originality and Creativity was endowed by Emeritus Professor William (“Bill”) M. Jones and each year acknowledges an original research proposal idea of a graduate student in the Organic, Inorganic, or Biochemistry Division. The award is judged based on three criteria: originality and impact of the scientific idea, quality and … Read more

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The department is pleased to announce the recipients ofthe 2021 V.T. and Louise Jackson Summer Fellowship. Maria-Jose Ferrer received her Bachelor’s Degree from University ofHartford and is a member of Professor Russ Bowers’ research group.Her research focuses on integration of ultrasonic atomization withparahydrogen enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance as a means forsynthesizing hyperpolarized substrates for biomedical … Read more

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The department is pleased to announce the recipients ofthe Dr. Howard and Brenda Sheridan Summer Fellowship awards. Subhradeep Bhar received his Bachelor’s Degree from West BengalUniversity of Technology and his Master’s Degree from BirlaInstitute of Technology and is a member of Professor RebeccaButcher’s research group. His research focuses on discovering novelnatural products produced by roundworm … Read more

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The department is pleased to announce that Juan Torres Gonzalez hasbeen awarded the 2021 Harry Sisler Summer Fellowship. Juan receivedhis Bachelor’s Degree from Universidad de Los Andes and is a memberof Professor Leslie Murray’s research group. His research focuses onN2 activation by multiiron complexes. Prof. Sisler moved to UF in 1956 and served as the … Read more

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The department is pleased to announce Eddie Laguna has been awardedthe 2021 Maurice Moore Summer Fellowship. Eddie received hisbachelor’s degree from California State University, Fullerton andhis master’s degree from University of California, Riverside and isa member of Professor Aaron Aponick’s research group. His researchfocuses on the synthesis of analogues of a natural product forapplications against … Read more

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