11th Biannual Wood Coatings & Substrates Conference

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry hosted the 11th Biannual Wood Coatings and Substrates Conference as part of its seminar program on…

Four Students from UNC Greensboro Named Fellows in Prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Ph.D. student Garrett Barto has been named one of this year’s NSF Graduate Research Fellows. Barto is using bioinformatics and machine learning to identify proteins in highly infectious diseases.

Words of Wisdom From a UNCG Grad Bound for Princeton

“When it came time to apply for graduate school, I was told to only apply to places I could see myself accepting, so I went for schools that were in the top 20 for chemistry. There wasn’t a single ‘safety school’ on my list, which I know is dangerous, but I want to do really cool science and that means going for the best programs.”

Opportunity Meets Initiative for UNCG’s Goldwater Scholar

UNC Greensboro is proud to announce that third-year chemistry student, Marcos Tapia, has been awarded the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship.

Tapia, a first-generation college student from Winston-Salem, was among only 438 students chosen nationwide for the Goldwater honor, which awards $7,500 a year, to cover up to two years of tuition expenses.

Dr. Huzefa Raja Receives Grant from Indianapolis Zoo to Study Freshwater Fungi

Dr. Huzefa Raja, a Research Scientist in the Oberlies Research Group in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has a received a one-year, $15,000 grant from the Indianapolis Zoo to study freshwater ascomycete fungi from submerged wood in aquatic habitats of Marion County, Indiana.