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Three UF Chemists Awarded NIH MIRA Grants

Profs. Jeff Rudolf, Matt Eddy, and Boone Prentice each recently received NIH MIRA grants. Click here to read more about each award. Congrats!

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Austin Evans Wins NSF CAREER Award

Austin Evans receives one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for early-career faculty. This award will “explore new ways to use electricity to modify and break down plastics.” Click to read CLAS News article

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Prof. George Christou Awarded the 2026 Charles H. Herty Medal of the ACS Southeastern Region

Congratulations to Distinguished Prof. George Christou, who was selected to receive the 2026 Charles H. Herty Medal!

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UF Chemist Austin Evans Wins Prestigious Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Congratulations to Prof. Austin Evans, who was selected of one of 17 new Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2026!

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Narayanan Lab Receives ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Grant

Assistant Professor Amal Narayanan has received an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grant to investigate surface properties of ultrahigh molecular weight polymers.

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