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Daphne Norton


Jin Xie


Geert-Jan Boons

Geert-Jan Boons is the UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor in Biochemical Sciences at the Department of Chemistry and the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) of the University of Georgia (USA) and Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry of Utrecht University (The Netherlands). He received a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Leiden University (The Netherlands) and spent seven years in the UK,…


Henry Schaefer

Henry F. Schaefer III was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  He attended public schools in Syracuse (New York), Menlo Park (California), and Grand Rapids (Michigan), graduating from East Grand Rapids High School. In 2018 Professor Schaefer received the Alumnus/Alumna of the Year Award from East Grand Rapids High School. He received his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. degree in…


Tina Salguero


Gregory H. Robinson


Michael Duncan

Michael A. Duncan was born in Greenville, SC, and attended Furman University.  He received his Ph.D. (1982) at Rice University with Prof. Richard Smalley.  He held an NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (Boulder, CO) with Prof. Stephen Leone.  He joined the University of Georgia faculty in 1983, and is now Franklin Professor and Regents' Professor.  He is a Fellow of the American…


Gary Douberly

Gary E. Douberly received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Central Florida in 2000.  He received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006 under the direction of Roger E. Miller and Tomas Baer.  Following postdoctoral work with Michael A. Duncan at the University of Georgia, he began his faculty appointment at the University of Georgia in 2008.  He was promoted to…


Jason Locklin

Jason Locklin is the Department Head in Chemistry and, founder and Director of the UGA New Materials Institute, established in 2016 to focus research and teaching missions on green engineering principles and circular materials management. Dr. Locklin also serves as Site Director, overseeing UGA’s collaborations, for the Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (CB2), a National Science Foundation Industry—University…


Jeffrey Urbauer

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