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The Medicinal Chemistry Collaborative and Lloyd Honors College Host Underground Railroad Tree Exhibit in Downtown Greensboro

This spring, the Medicinal Chemistry Collaborative and Lloyd International Honors College have embarked on an exploration that transcends disciplinary boundaries.  Students, faculty, and staff at UNC Greensboro have come together with research and creative activity inspired by a single 300-year-old tulip poplar tree in the Guilford Forest.  The project coincides… Continue reading…

New Medicinal Chemistry Collaborative Website Launched!

The Medicinal Chemistry Collaborative, otherwise known as MCsquared, has officially launched its new website. The new collaborative is co-directed by Dr. Nadja Cech and Dr. Nicholas Oberlies, and many Chemistry and Biochemistry department faculty, grads, postdocs, and even staff are involved in this collaborative effort, as well a number of… Continue reading…

“Yes, and” as Teaching-Learning Methodology

Award Winning Professors Nadja Cech (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Omar Ali (Honors, African American and African Diaspora Studies and History)  co-authored an article in Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed, where they present “Yes, and,” a concept derived from improvisational theatre, as a teaching-learning methodology that supports engaged experiential learning. In this approach, the leader of the… Continue reading…

Fungal libraries unlike any in the world

Expanding natural products diversity to support drug discovery Under the leadership of natural products chemist Dr. Nicholas Oberlies and mycologist Dr. Huzefa Raja, a major effort of the Medicinal Chemistry Collaborative (MCC) is to expand and leverage the highly unique library of 1,000 living fungi housed at the University of… Continue reading…

Yes, and as Teaching-Learning Methodology

Award Winning Professors Nadja Cech (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Omar Ali (Honors, African American and African Diaspora Studies and History)  co-authored an article in Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed, where they present “Yes, and,” a concept derived from improvisational theatre, as a teaching-learning methodology that supports engaged experiential learning. In this approach, the leader of the… Continue reading…

Community Play

As part of the Community Play! Greensboro (https://www.facebook.com/communityplayGSO) and in partnership with the Lloyd International Honors College, we bring students into the UNCG chemistry department to experience science in a laboratory setting.  UNCG Graduate Student Derick Jones is shown here doing chemistry with several student participants. 

Fungal libraries unlike any in the world

Expanding natural products diversity to support drug discovery Under the leadership of natural products chemist Dr. Nicholas Oberlies and mycologist Dr. Huzefa Raja, a major effort of the Medicinal Chemistry Collaborative (MCC) is to expand and leverage the highly unique library of 1,000 living fungi housed at the University of… Continue reading…