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Professor Boone Prentice Wins a Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship

Assistant Professor Boone Prentice was selected to receive one of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships! Congratulations! According to the press announcement, 126 scholars from 51 institutions were selected to receive this prestigious award. These fellowships “honor exceptional researchers at US and Canadian educational institutions, whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand … Read more

Prof. Boone Prentice Receives NSF CAREER Award

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Prof. Boone Prentice with a prestigious CAREER Award from the Chemical Measurement and Imaging (CMI) Program in the Division of Chemistry. The NSF CMI program supports research focusing on chemically-relevant measurement science and chemical imaging. The 5-year award will fund research in the Prentice Group developing mass spectrometry … Read more

Congratulations to Michael Christopher, Recipient of the NIH F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award

Michael Christopher was awarded the NIH F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute in December 2024. Michael is a PhD candidate in the analytical chemistry division co-mentored by Dr.’s Timothy Garrett and Boone Prentice. Prior to joining the Dr. Garrett and Dr. Prentice labs in 2021, Michael studied biochemistry … Read more

Professor Rick Yost awarded the Thomson Medal of the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation

The Thomson Medal Award is named after Sir JJ Thomson, who was responsible for the first mass spectrograph and its resulting data more than 100 years ago. He also predicted many features of modern mass spectrometry. He discovered the electron using mass spectrometry and won the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his research. The International Mass Spectrometry … Read more

Prof Lisa McElwee-White is the 2024 Gassman Awardee

The Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award has been bestowed upon Professor Lisa McElwee-White for her many significant contributions to the Division of Organic Chemistry (DOC) and the organic chemistry community. As a member of the DOC’s Executive Committee, she served as national Program Chair, Member-at-Large, and Chair. From 2006 to 2024 she, along with … Read more

Dr. Julien Papillon and Prof. Christopher Vanderwal visits UF Chemistry Dept.

The Organic Division hosted Dr. Julien Papillon (Novartis, left) and Prof. Christopher Vanderwal (University of California at Irvine). Thank you to Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research for sponsoring the Novartis Chemical Science Lectureship at the University of Florida.

Jordan Levi and Guancen Liu are co-recipients of the 2019 Keaffaber Scholar Award

Congratulations to Jordan Levi and Guancen Liu who have been named co-recipients of the 2019 Keaffaber Scholar Award. The award has been made possible through the generosity of Dr. Jeffrey Keaffaber, a longtime friend and supporter of the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Keaffaber received his Ph.D. from the Department in 1989 (with Prof. William Dolbier, … Read more

Carter Boelke Wins Research Poster Award

Congratulations to Carter Boelke for his excellent research achievements! Carter won 1st place at UF’s annual GRACE symposium and 2nd place in his division of Catalysis & Reaction Engineering at the 2019 Annual AIChE Student Conference. Carter is currently a third year chemical engineering major who has been working in Dr. Wei’s research group for … Read more

Dr. Wei Accepted 2019 UFRF Professorship Award

Congratulations to Dr. David Wei on receiving the University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorship. Photo with our chair Dr. Lisa McElwee-White (left) and our dean Dr. David E. Richardson (right) at the 2019 Professorship Awards Luncheon.

Dr. Guo received an Innovation of the Year Award from UF

Dr. Zhongwu Guo, UF Professor of Chemistry and Steven and Rebecca Scott Chair, recently received a UF Innovation of the Year Award for his creative work about the synthesis of glycosphingolipids, a research project supported by NSF.

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Author: Dwight Bailey