General News

Afonin receives NSF INTERN supplement

The funds will be used to support Yasmine Radwan on a 6 month internship at Mimetas, a privately owned biotechnology company developing human organ-on-a-chip tissue models and products for drug development. This is a great opportunity for Yasmine and the Afonin group.

Laura Casto-Boggess receives NC Space Grant!

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Please join the Department of Chemistry in congratulating Laura Casto-Boggess for receiving a grant from NC Space Grant! The NC Space Grant funds research aligned with NASA’s mission directorates. Laura and her lab will be exploring “Nanoscale sample processing and analysis using segmented flow patterns and capillary electrophoresis for high sensitivity detection of potential biosignatures in […]

Department of Chemistry Hosts MolSSI Conference

The Department of Chemistry welcomes the 2024 Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) Conference. This workshop runs from June 3rd to June 7th and features hands on experience learning python coding in addition to great presentations from guest speakers. Join us on Friday for the student presentations where participants will showcase what they have been working […]

Walter and Hanna received NSF grant

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The grant will support a collaboration involving both UNC Charlotte and Winthrop researchers to explore photocatalysis with thiazolothiazoles. Photocatalysis is one of the most active areas of development in synthetic chemistry and pharmaceutical development, but much of the field has relied on scarce elements for the catalyst itself. This new research program will develop photocatalytic […]

ACS Publications Diversity & Inclusion Cover Art Series Contest

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The ACS Publications Diversity & Inclusion Cover Art Series is back for 2024! This portfolio-wide initiative aims to amplify marginalized voices and recognize historically excluded or under-recognized populations of chemists. Since the program’s initial launch in Analytical Chemistry in February 2021, we have published unique and impactful stories through cover art and accompanying editorials. This initiative was then […]

ACS Scholarship Opportunity

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The Priscilla Carney Jones Scholarship was established by Paul R. Jones, in memory of his wife, to provide scholarships for female undergraduate majors in chemistry or related disciplines who are beginning their junior or senior years of study. Priscilla Carney Jones wished to have this scholarship established because of the difficulties she faced as a […]

Chemistry in the news: Featuring Dr. Vivero-Escoto

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Dr. Juan Vivero-Escoto was recently interviewed by WBTV on your side about his research on antibiotic resistant bacteria. Check out the segment here to learn more about the amazing research being done at Charlotte!

Congratulations to My Vuong, awardee of the NSF-Graduate Research Fellowship!

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Congratulations to My Vuong, who has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in the field of Chemistry – Macromolecular, Supramolecular, and Nanochemistry! My is a Chemistry major in the University Honors Program. She has worked in Professor Bejger’s laboratory since 2021, where she studies organometallic polymers made from metal-sulfur clusters and N-heterocyclic […]

Jacob Horger selected to present at Faculty Showcase

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Congratulations to Dr. Jacob Horger, Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Horger has been selected to participate in the 5th annual Faculty Showcase. The committee in charge of the showcase said of Jacob’s work, “The quality of the work he recently undertook with the Office of Assessment and Accreditation’s Scholarship of Assessment […]

Juan Vivero-Escoto-Bacteria Destroyer

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Dr. Vivero-Escoto’s lab has been quite busy and it really shows! Read below about 3 projects that have recently been funded: Project Number1R16GM145434-01 Antimicrobial resistant bacteria (ARB) and genes (ARGs) are one of the biggest public health issues of the 21st century. In this project; we propose to develop a light-activated silver nanoparticulate system for […]