Author: Dwight Bailey

UF names Professor Adam Veige as UFRF Professor for 2017-2020

On April 13, 2017, the University of Florida Research Foundation named Professor Adam Veige as one of 34 UFRF Professors for 2017-2020. UF recognizes faculty members for having distinguished current records of research and strong research agendas likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields. “Faculty chosen for UFRF Professorships have a proven record of … Read more

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2017 Stasch Award announced

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Ann R. Stasch Summer Fellowships. The endowment honors our first woman doctoral student, Ann R. Stasch, Ph.D., 1956 and recognizes excellence in research, scholarship, teaching, leadership and service. The 2017 recipients are Erica Amato and Kylie Mitchell. Erica, who received her B.S. degree in chemistry … Read more

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Tiny Tech is back on the air!

Tiny Tech is a series of 90-second radio modules and podcasts that feature real world applications of chemistry and chemistry-based nanoscience. Produced in conjunction with the UF public radio station WUFT-FM, the modules are broadcast on Friday afternoons on WUFT. The scripts and sound files are available on the series web site tinytechradio.org and the podcast … Read more

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2017 James and Laura Winefordner Scholarship announced

The Analytical Chemistry Division is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2017 James and Laura Winefordner Summer Graduate Scholarship, Ms. Juliette Experton.  Juliette is a graduate of Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and a member of Professor Charles Martin’s research group. Her dissertation research focuses on electroporation using a newly developed gold-microtube membrane. Congratulations … Read more

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The Roitberg group describes a method to calculate accurate molecular energies without the computational cost

The Roitberg group has recently published a method that uses Machine learning techniques, to compute highly accurate energies, but at a low computational cost. Photographer: Bernard Brzezinski, UF Press Office The article, written with chemistry graduate student Justin Smith and collaborator Olexandr Isayev (U North Carolina):http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/SC/C6SC05720A#!divAbstractA less technical description:https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/neural-network-provides-accurate-simulations-without-the-cost/2500544.articleA playful story for the general public:http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2017/04/the-anakin-method-using-artificial-intelligence-to-fight-disease.php

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2017 Tarrant Summer Graduate Research Scholarships

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the second annual Tarrant Summer Graduate Research Scholarships. The endowment honors Prof. Paul Tarrant, a member of our department from 1946 to 1981, and this award promotes outstanding research for graduate students working in the Division of Organic Chemistry. This year’s recipients are Adrian Figg and Danielle Fagnani. Adrian … Read more

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