Congratulations to UGA Chemistry major Alexander Deltchev, who was recently selected as one of the top 100 UGA student employees and will be honored at the Career Center’s awards luncheon on April 13.  Alex has been working as the lead Peer Learning Assistant (PLA) for CHEM 1212 classes for the past three years where he is responsible for managing the efforts of approximately 50-60 PLAs, coordinating their office hours, monitoring

On Friday, April 15, the Department of Chemistry will host its annual Alumni Event, which had been on hiatus since 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns. The event begin with the Alumni Lecture at 4:00 p.m. in Room 400 of the Chemistry building, with Prof. Jason Locklin of the UGA New Materials Institute as the featured speaker.

 The Chemistry Graduate Student Organization's (CGSO) Networking Committee will host an inaugural Career Day Event, "How Do I Utilize My Degree in Industry?," on Thursday, March 31, ​2022, from 4:00-7:00 PM. Speakers will present via Zoom, but there will be an in-person meeting space in Room 400 of the Chemistry building to encourage discussion and networking.  This event offers an opportunity to meet industry professionals as well as learn how to utilize your skills in the job market.

Department of Chemistry

Doctoral Defense

Under the direction of:

I. Jonathan Amster & James H. Prestegard

Honey is a widely sought-after natural product produced around the globe. It’s produced by honeybees that take up nectar from flowers and digest it in a separate stomach full of enzymes necessary to break down nectar sugar. The partially digested nectar is passed from honeybee to honeybee until its placed inside a honeycomb and dried via flapping wings. The honey is then sealed off with beeswax. Extracting honey from beehives has had the same method for years and has been done the same way to ensure bee safety.

With the ever rising production of plastic globally, a renewed focus has been cast onto the end of life fate of these persisting products.¹ Within this sphere, chemical recycling to monomers is a high interest area that focuses on the application of depolymerization to return plastics into reusable monomers in order to produce a truly circular plastic recycling economy.² Within this field, the two main focuses are on either finding novel mechanisms for the depolymerization of current commodity plastics or to find suitable

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals commonly used in food contact paper and paperboard due to their unique ability to provide both moisture and oil/grease resistance.

Immune system protects our body from attacks by pathogens. Immune system can also accurately identify self and mutated peptides on cancer cells and amount an antitumor immune response.¹ As a novel cancer treatment modality, cancer immunotherapy aims at training immune cells for antigen recognition or boosting antitumor immune response. Unlike conventional therapies, immunotherapy promises to eliminate both primary and distant tumors while establishing a long-term immune memory that prevents tumor recurrence. ²