UNC Greensboro

Congrats to Lara for successfully defending her thesis! She is the first Croatt Group Member to earn her doctorate! We wish her luck with her new academic position in Jordan!

Congrats to Buthainah, Laura, and Maxwell for earning their BS degrees! The Croatt Group earned many awards and scholarships including Maxwell earning the ACS Organic Division Undergrad Award, Lara earning the Forrester Award (Top PhD student in Dept), Chris earning the Anderson Award (Top Junior in Dept), and Christina, Laura,… Continue reading…

Dr. Croatt received the James Y. Joyner Award for Teaching Excellence!  He is very honored to receive this Alumni Teaching Excellence Award.

Congrats to Dempsey for getting many interviews and multiple offers for academic positions!  He will be starting his independent academic career this Fall at Adelphi University!

Dr. Croatt received notification that he will be promoted to Associate Professor with permanent tenure!  He thanks his group for all their hard work to put him in this position.

Our latest publication on cyanocarbenes was published online today for a Special Issue on Emerging Investigators in Chemical Communications!  Congrats to Dempsey, Daniel, Maxwell, Christina, and Manahil!

Congrats to Ghina’a and Manahil for winning 1st and 3rd place poster presentation prizes at the North Carolina Sectional ACS meeting!

The Croatt group received the NSF CAREER Award!  This grant will fund both the cyanocarbene project and developments with the Functional Group Program.

The Croatt group was awarded a North Carolina Biotechnology Center Biotechnology Research Grant!  This grant will fund the design and development of our isocarbacyclin analogues.

Congrats to Rupa for earning the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award!  This will pay her during the school year to research decarboxylation reactions.