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Featured Content Upcoming Event Improvement of Poly-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate Nucleation for Use in Waterborne and Biologically Degradable Polymer Coating Scott Tull Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia) Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 11:00am Chemistry Building, Room 453 Upcoming Event Sarah Elliott - Literature Seminar Sarah Elliott Department of Chemistry (University of Georgia) Friday, February 28, 2020 - 11:15am Chemistry Building, Room 400 News Spotlight Schaefer receives Southern Chemist Award Reported on 2020-02-11 Latest News $1 Million NSF Award for Electron Microscope Reported on 2020-01-22 A grant of nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation, with additional funding provided by UGA's Office of Research and the Georgia Research Alliance, will bring a new electron microscope—the only one of its kind in Georgia—to the UGA campus. … Chemistry Graduate Student Wins Prestigious AAAS Award Reported on 2020-01-06 A graduate student in the department of Chemistry, Ms. Cynthia Tope, has been selected to receive the 2020 Helen F. Holt Scholarship for Early Career Women in Science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Graduate Student Awarded Chateaubriand Fellowship Reported on 2020-01-02 Alanna Koritzke , a graduate student in the lab of Prof. more news Upcoming Events March 2 Unexpected oxygen tolerance in an efficient hydrogen-producing [FeFe] hydrogenase from Clostridium beijerinckii Professor Alexey Silakov (Penn State University) Monday, March 2, 2020 - 11:15am Chemistry Building, Room 400 March 3 Laser-Based Nanoscale 3D Printing: Chemistries, Materials, and Functional Optical Devices Professor Stephen M. 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