News maintained by Jessica Budwitz
April 26, 2024
At the UGA Chemistry Alumni & Awards Banquet, Audrey won both the L.B. “Buck” Rogers Award for the undergraduate student that performs the most outstanding research in Chemistry over the last year and the Outstanding Undergraduate Student of the Year from Northeast Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society, while Chris won the G. E. Philbrook Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching from the Northeast Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society!
April 12, 2024
In recent weeks, Christopher DeAngelis was awarded a UGA Travel Grant, Jonathan Lin a UGA Summer Research Grant for Doctoral Students, and Jessica Budwitz a UGA Communication of Research and Scholarship Grant – not a bad haul!
April 3, 2024
Audrey will be officially joining Caltech’s grad program!
March 10, 2024
Chris DeAngelis and Jessica both won poster prizes at FloHet 2024, congrats!
February 16, 2024
Skyler hosted a local high school sophomore student, Copper, and his teacher, Mr. Pulliam, for a morning workshop designed to help prepare Copper for his upcoming Governor’s Honors Program interview. This included a tour of our lab, a research presentation, a mock interview, and several experimental demonstrations. Best of luck, Copper!
February 15, 2024
Today we were lucky enough to host Prof. Jon T. Njardarson, who shared with us his beautiful work in the anionic aza-Cope rearrangment space
February 2, 2024
Skyler delivered a seminar at his Alma Mater, University of North Georgia, discussing his PhD research and graduate school experiences, nice work!
January 29, 2024
The group has received an NSF CAREER award to support our work in the pericyclic chemistry space, as well as our outreach program!
December 9, 2023
Another Ferreira/Newton Christmas party in the books! Can you tell who was most excited about their Secret Santa gift?
November 19, 2023
We were fortunate enough to close out this semester’s Organic Chemistry seminar series with guest lectures from both Prof. Mark Levin and Prof. Andrew Roberts!
November 3, 2023
Welcome to our newest group members, Jonathan and Peter! Find out more about them on our people page
November 2, 2023
Skyler passes his prospectus, and Geeta successfully presents her departmental literature seminar, congratulations to you both
October 27, 2023
Prof. Liming Zhang from the University of California at Santa Barbara joined us for an interesting guest lecture regarding his group’s work in gold catalysis
June 5, 2023
Welcome to Dat Dam, a visting SURO undergraduate from Gettysburg College, who will be working alongside Skyler in the lab this summer. Learn about Dat on our people page
May 12, 2023
Mary Stuart has graduated with her B.S. in Chemistry. Congratulations, and best of luck in your new position at Gilead in Foster City, California
April 27, 2023
We were very grateful to host our neighbor, Prof. Mingji Dai from Emory University, for a departmental seminar concerning his groups work on the synthesis and application of complex natural products
April 20, 2023
Thank you to Prof. László Kürti from Rice University for a fantastic departmental seminar on “Advances in the Synthesis and Application of Strained-Ring Compounds”, and for signing Marshall’s Strategic Applications textbook
April 14, 2023
Congratulations to Audrey for winning the Alfred W. Scott Sr. Award for the most outstanding rising senior ACS certified Chemistry major student at UGA
April 4, 2023
Both of our undergraduates, Mary Stuart and Audrey, had the opportunity to present their research at the 2023 CURO Symposium this afternoon
April 3, 2023
Audrey has been selected as a 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholar – one of the most prestigious national awards for undergraduates in science!
March 30, 2023
New group members, new group photo! Learn more about Lee and Amanullah here
March 25, 2023
Under the guidance of our fearless leader, Audrey, the group spent the day helping run the chemistry component of the most recent UGA Science Olympiad event. Check out our outreach page for photos
March 17, 2023
Jessica’s Organic Syntheses article is now online, check it out here
February 23, 2023
Today we were lucky enough to host Prof. Zachary Wickens from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a departmental seminar on “Selective Synthesis Using Light and Electricity”
February 1, 2023
The boss was featured in an early career author profile at Helvetica Chimica Acta, check it out here
January 19, 2023
Skyler and Jay both successfully present literature seminars to the department, congratulations
December 12, 2022
Jay passes his prospectus!
December 10, 2022
Our second annual joint Ferreira/Newton Christmas party was a blast
December 1, 2022
This coming summer Audrey is headed to Yale University to work in the Newhouse Group, what a superstar
November 17, 2022
Chris D passed his literature seminar where he discussed recent work in the area of reductive cross-couplings, congrats!
November 10, 2022
Prof. Kami Hull joined us from University of Texas, Austin for a great departmental visit
November 1, 2022
The group has been an awarded an ACS PRF grant!
October 25, 2022
Congratulations to Jay for winning the Grimes Family Distinguished Graduate Fellowship!
October 18, 2022
Audrey’s presentation at the GCURS was selected for the Outstanding Presentation in Theory/Computational Award!
September 12, 2022
We hosted our first outreach event with Clarke Central High School, see our outreach page for more details
June 27, 2022
Jessica’s “Synpacts” perspective detailing ring forming routes to para-quinones is now online, check it out here
June 15, 2022
A new undergraduate has joined the lab! Learn more about Audrey here
April 17, 2022
Congratulations to Jessica who won the L.B. “Buck” Rogers Award from the UGA Department of Chemistry for “the most outstanding research in Chemistry by an undergraduate over the last year”
April 15, 2022
Our very own Jessica Budwitz won an ACS Organic Division Undergraduate Award, congratulations!
April 7, 2022
Prof. Albert Padwa joined us for a departmental visit, and kindly gifted to the group one of his handmade mobiles
March 31, 2022
Marshall successfully delivered his departmental literature seminar describing the “Total Synthesis of Dithiodiketopiperazine Natural Products”
March 3, 2022
Prof. Andrew Lawrence, visiting all the way from University of Edinburgh in Scotland, gave a wonderful seminar discussing his groups work on biomimetic natural product total synthesis
December 18, 2021
The first joint Ferreira/Newton Group Christmas party
December 7, 2021
Marshall and Chris D. both pass their PhD prospectus’, congrats!
November 18, 2021
Prof. Vincent Lindsay of North Carolina State University gave a fascinating departmental concerning “Stereoselective Synthesis and Applications of Sulfonylcyclopropanols as Modular Cyclopropanone and Homoenolate Equivalents”
November 5, 2021
Thank you to Prof. Qiu Wang from Duke University for giving a great seminar – we always appreciate a new route to benzynes!
October 7, 2021
Two New Zealanders in one room! Prof. Simon Blakey from Emory University, gave a fantastic seminar on his group’s work on rhodium catalyzed enantioselective C–H functionalization
March 1, 2021
Three new students have joined the group! Welcome Chris D, Jessica and Marshall
