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Janae Wofford cuts branches in a UNCG lab.

For Goldwater Scholar, Solutions to Antibiotic Resistance Could Stem from Trees

Janae Wofford always liked getting to the “root” of an issue. That’s not surprising for someone who grew up in the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains encircling Asheville, North Carolina.

When she chose to study at UNC Greensboro, she was pleased to keep in touch with nature through greenspaces like Guilford Woods. “I love hiking,” the Honors College student says. “It was nice to see a woody area that I could hike with little creeks to jump across, the type of stuff I’m used to back home.”

One walk in the woods inspired research that landed her a Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most coveted STEM scholarships in the nation. She hopes that her work will contribute to new medicines to treat infections that are growing more dangerous with time.

Dr. Nadja Cech and Dr. Nick Oberlies

Cech, Oberlies, Raja Among the World’s Most-Cited Scientists

UNC Greensboro scientists are among the top 2% most-cited researchers around the world, according to the 2023 Stanford-Elsevier List. While the list doesn’t account for citations in all journals or disciplines, it includes data from nearly 35,000 peer-reviewed journals in the life, social, physical, and health sciences.

Board of Governor's Teaching Excellence honoree Dr. Nadja Cech in her lab with a UNCG student.

Dr. Nadja Cech honored with the UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award

Dr. Cech is Patricia A. Sullivan Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UNCG and has been on the faculty since 2001. In addition to teaching in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, she supervises a group of 14 undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral research associates in her lab. Inspired by molecules from plants, fungi, and bacteria, the Cech Research Group seeks to discover new treatments for infectious disease. This work has been funded for nearly two decades by the National Institutes of Health.

Derick Jones receives Spartan Leadership Award

Derick Jones, PhD candidate and member of the Cech Research Group, was honored recently with a 2020 Spartan Leadership Award for his outreach efforts with the Graduate Student Association (GSA). Through the Graduate Food Insecurity Initiative, Jones and fellow GSA members raised over $6,000 to help more than 240 graduate… Continue reading…

Dr. Nadja Cech

Dr. Nadja Cech Featured as a “Face of Mass Spectrometry”!

Dr. Nadja Cech is featured by the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry‘s Faces of Mass Spectrometry series.  Dr. Cech is a phenomenal mass spectrometrist, mentor for undergraduate and graduate students, and advocate for diversity and inclusion.  Congratulations to Dr. Cech!

Dr. Cech featured in ‘Faces of Mass Spectrometry’

Dr. Nadja Cech was featured recently in an interview series of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (JASMS) entitled “Faces of Mass Spectrometry.” The goal of this series of conversations with innovative, creative scientists is to highlight the diversity of American Society for Mass Spectrometry members, as… Continue reading…

Dr. Nadja Cech

Dr. Nadja Cech Interview on WUNC 91.5 FM!

Our very own Dr. Nadja Cech will be interviewed on WUNC tomorrow at 12:40pm EST, and will rebroadcast at 8:40pm. Permanent weblink coming soon! Details at http://bit.ly/2E6uXxv 

Dr. Joshua Kellogg Receives NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – First of This Kind at UNC Greensboro

Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Kellogg, who was awarded a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for his project “Complex Natural Product Mixtures Against Drug Resistant Infections: Targeting Multiple Pathways to Combat Bacteria.” Josh is the first postdoctoral research scientist at UNC Greensboro ever to receive this type of NIH… Continue reading…