Gold Medal of the American Institute of Chemists

Professor Henry F. Schaefer of the Department of Chemistry has received the highest honor of the American Institute of Chemists (AIC). The AIC Gold Medal is awarded in recognition of service to the science and profession of chemistry and chemical engineering.

Kingdon trap [1] is the simplest ion trap consisting of wire and cylindrical electrode surrounding with different potential.  Well-known Orbitrap [2], has emerged as development of R. D. Knight’s idea [3], who modified the cylinder electrodes geometry to make the field inside Kingdon trap quadratic (harmonic) and proposed measuring the frequencies of ions oscillating in such field by resonant excitation of their motion along trap axis, to determine their masses [3].

Although the special properties of water have been valued and appreciated for centuries, as scientists we continue to be perplexed by the molecular make-up of water in all its forms.  Equally perplexing is the surface of water, a surface that is involved in some of most important reactions in our atmosphere, a surface that can sculpt the landscape as it flows past rocks and soils, a surface that can break down the strongest of metals, and a surface across which essential nutrients and ions are constant

Professor I. Jonathan Amster

Cracking the secrets of complex molecules

Cynthia Tope, a graduate student in the UGA Chemistry Department, has been awarded a sponsorship by the UGA Graduate School to attend the 2019 Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) workshop hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Cynthia is currently a third-year student under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Urbauer. She is one of only two UGA graduate students to be awarded this sponsorship.

The main themes of the lecture are the bonding in low-coordinate or  multiple bonded heavier group 14 element compounds and the reactions of such compounds with hydrogen and other small molecules. It will be shown that the studies of these topics have led to new insights on the nature of the element-element bonding.

Cynthia R. Martin (Renea)

has joined the UGA Chemistry Department as the new Assistant to the Directors of General and Organic Chemistry.  Renea will be the lead administrator for first- and second-year chemistry education, reporting jointly to Prof. Richard Morrison, Director of Organic Chemistry Education, and Dr. Suzanne Ellenberger, Director of General Chemistry Education.  She'll work in the Chem 601 office.