Professor Ron Castellano receives SEC Faculty Travel grant

Professor Ron Castellano recently received a Southeastern Conference (SEC) Faculty Travel grant from the Office of the Provost. More than 100 faculty members from all 14 Southeastern Conference universities will take part in the 2017-18 SEC Faculty Travel Program. The program, in its sixth year, provides support for selected individuals to collaborate with colleagues at … Read more

Professor Adam Veige wins JSPS Fellowship–Will travel to Japan

Congratulations to Adam Veige for winning a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship for Research in Japan. JSPS invitation fellowships are designed to enable Japanese researchers to invite their overseas colleagues to Japan to participate in cooperative work and other academic activities. As such, Dr. Veige will travel to Japan and spend … Read more

Ultrapermeable polymer by design

Ultrapermeable micro-porous polymer designed by close coupling of experimental and computational predictions Colina, McKeown, and co-workers reported in a recent article in Nature Materials that the inefficient packing of two-dimensional (2D) chains of PIM-TMN-Trip generates an ultrapermeable polymer. This microporous polymer increases the efficiency of membranes for gas separations to new boundaries. More about this … Read more

Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center recives NIH S10 Award

Kari Basso, PhD, Director of the Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center (MSREC) in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the NIH S10 Shared Instrumentation Grant for the purchase of a Q Exactive? HF hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer. The Q Exactive has a resolving power of 240,000, the highest resolution mass spectrometer ever installed … Read more

Four Chemistry faculty members chosen to receive 2016-2019 University Term Professorship Awards

Chemistry Professors Leslie Murray, Nick Polfer, Aaron Aponick and Ron Castellano were recently selected to receive University Term Professorship Awards. These three-year professorships were created by UF to recognize faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship that is expected to lead to continuing distinction in their field. Congratulations to Aaron, Ron, … Read more

Songwriting distinguished professor pens nanotech tune for DOE

Distinguished Professor Charles R. Martin is UF Chemistry Department’s renaissance man – both a nanoscience pioneer and an award-winning songwriter who has released seven albums of original rock and Americana music. Martin recently got to combine these passions for science and art in a songwriting gig from the US Department of Energy (DOE). Martin is … Read more

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

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

2017 Eastman Chemical Summer Fellowships Announced

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Eastman Chemical Summer Fellowships The award in analytical chemistry or polymer characterization goes to Ms. Emily Gill. Emily received her MS degree from the University of Birmingham, England and joined our program in 2014. She is a member of Prof. Yost’s research group. Her research … Read more

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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