Our wonderful faculty member Jerry Walsh will be giving a seminar talk titled “A Reflection on a Fantastic Journey in Chemistry” on Friday, November 1 as part of our Department’s Fall 2024 Seminar Speaker Series. This talk will be held in Sullivan 101 starting at 1:00 PM. Upon the conclusion… Continue reading…
In this project funded by the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways (MPS-LEAPS) Program and managed by the Broadening Participation (CHE-BP) Program in the Division of Chemistry, Professor Chekan and his students at University of North Carolina Greensboro will study new enzyme catalysts for the crosslinking of amino acid side chains in peptides.
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry hosted the 11th Biannual Wood Coatings and Substrates Conference as part of its seminar program on September 26 & 27. In addition to ten technical talks, there were presentations by keynote speakers Dr. Mojgan Nejad from Michigan State University and Dr. Veronic Landry from… Continue reading…
Four students from UNC Greensboro were named fellows in the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
“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.”
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.
From photosynthesis in plants, to every breath we take and every thought we think, life is animated by complex chemical reactions that pass electrons back and forth between molecules. Dr. Shabnam Hematian, Bernard-Glickman Dean’s Professor in the UNCG Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has focused her research on the metals — iron, copper, and others — that are foundational to these processes. “The cool chemistry that happens in your body – metabolism of drugs or hormone biosynthesis – all of them are governed by a series of iron proteins,” she says.
Oberlies is renowned for his work in drug discovery from filamentous fungi – a line of research that could result in improved treatments for a variety of diseases, including cancer and malaria. He also investigates herbal drugs, such as milk thistle and kratom, to develop reference standards and determine chemical composition and safety.
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.
Fulbright doctoral student Baiq Desy Ratnasari hopes to apply the principles and techniques she’s learned at UNCG to find compounds that prevent or treat malaria.
