The UGA Department of Chemistry will hold its 2024 Alumni Lecture and Awards Banquet on Friday, April 26, and the Golf Scramble a week later on Saturday, May 4. The events begin at 4:00 p.m. with the annual Alumni Lecture, featuring Prof. Catherine Murphy of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in Room 1218 of the iSTEM-2 building. Following the lecture, the Awards Banquet will be held in the Magnolia Room at the Georgia Center. Social hour begins at 6:00 p.m., dinner is served at 7:00 p.m. and will be followed by the awards presentation. Among the honorees is the winner of the 2024 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and 2024 Department of Chemistry Distinguished Alumnus, Prof. Peter Schreiner, Professor/Liebig Chair, Institute of Organic Chemistry at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. The banquet is sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and the Northeast Georgia Chapter of the American Chemical Society and there is no charge to attend the event. Please contact Ms. Donna Spotts at donna.spotts@uga.edu to register for the event or for more details. Deadline for registration is Monday, April 22. The Chemistry Golf Scramble will begin at 1:00 p.m on May 4 at the UGA Golf Course, and will be followed by a barbecue dinner. Prof. Michael Duncan is the event organizer; contact him at maduncan@uga.edu for more details or to register for the event.
