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Connor Ambrose, Bella Cherin, and Leah Kessler win this highly prestigious NSF graduate school fellowship. Congrats!

Leah Kessler and Nicholar Marotta receive recognition by the Royal Society of Chemistry for their significant achievements in the chemical sciences.

First-year Ph.D. student Adriana Zayia has been awarded the highly competitive National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, securing three years of support for her doctoral research in synthetic chemistry.

The Greg Butler Experiential Learning Fund provides opportunities for research experiences for undergraduates that have transferred from other institutions.

This annual award recognizes UF Chemistry students who demonstrate significant contributions to community service activities. The award is supported by Dr. Atallah, a UF Chem 2013 PhD alumnus.  

Dr. Rupam Roy, Evans Research Group, has been honored with the 2025 UF Outstanding Postdoc Award.

Matthew Tibi has been awarded the competitive Barry Goldwater scholarship, which supports the next generation of talented researchers.

Leah Kessler, a graduating senior, has been named one of just eighteen finalists for the 2026 CLAS Excellence Award. Click to read more about about Leah, her service and research accomplishments.

Prof. Adrian Roitberg received the AI Research Excellence Award, Prof. Mingjie Liu and Namindu Rangana De Silva won the HiPerGator Early Career Awards, and
Profs. Alberto Perez and Mingjie Liu and their labs won HiPerGator Pioneering Team Awards. Click to read the UF News article.

Utilizing HiPerGator, the Perez Lab Gators designed the best protein binder out of 12,000 submissions in the Bits to Binders competition. Click to read the CLAS News article.

Maddie Ross, a Biochem major is UF’s 10th Gates Cambridge Scholar, and the first since 2017.