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 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.

Professor Butcher Awarded 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship

“Congratulations to Professor Rebecca A. Butcher on being named a 2014 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The foundation seeks to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Professor Butcher is one of only twenty-three chemists to receive this award in 2014. Sloan Fellows receive $50,000 for a … Read more

Aponick Group Research Highlighted in Nature Chemistry

“In the Aponick group, Flavio Cardoso has been studying the preparation of a new class of biaryl ligands for asymmetric catalysis. Biaryls containing 5-membered heterocycles were hypothesized to be excellent P,N-ligands, but their preparation as a single enantiomer required new design strategies. Cardoso and Aponick, with Khalil Abboud, recently published their new approach involving ground … Read more

Aponick Group Research Highlighted in Nature Chemistry

Prof. Butcher is named a New Scholar in Aging by the Ellison Medical Foundation

“Congratulations to Prof. Rebecca Butcher on being named one of 25 New Scholars in Aging by the Ellison Medical Foundation. The objective of the program is to support new investigators of outstanding promise in the basic biological sciences relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases. The award is $100,000 per year, for a … Read more

Merz Group Research Featured on JACS Cover

“A molecular dynamics study of the zinc sensing transcriptional repressor Staphylococcus aureus CzrA was featured on the cover of the Feb 22nd edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. CzrA is a member of the ArsR/SmtB family of metal sensor proteins and functions through a mechanism of allosteric negative regulation. The cover shows … Read more

UF Engineer Develops Full Color 3D Scanning Microscope

“Mr. Robert Harker, an Engineer working for Dr. Ion Ghiviriga in Chemistry’s own Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Lab was granted a US utility patent for the following new and useful invention: “Full Spectrum Lapidary 3D Image Scanner and Method,” US Patent 7840300 B2. These technologies are available free to any UF researcher and are in keeping … Read more

Cover of Green Chemistry Highlights Polymer Publication

“A publication about PET mimics by Professor Stephen A. Miller has been published in the journal Green Chemistry. The thermal properties (glass transition temperature, melting temperature, and degradation temperature) of the common thermoplastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET, found in water bottles) have been matched with a polymer that can derive from biorenewable materials lignin and acetic … Read more

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