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Synthetic Chemistry: Bioinorganic chemistry, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Reaction methods

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-02/24/2025 Sean's article on Carbon-Phosphorus stapled Au(i) is featured in UKnow. Way to go!

-02/19/2025 Congratulations To Sean and Harold For receiving Steckler Summer Research Fellowship Awards.

-01/20/2025 Congratulations To Jovita For Receiving a travel Award from the American Chemical Society.

-12/12/2024 Congratulations To Sean For Passing His Oral Qualifying Exam.

-11/20/2024 Congratulations To Aly For Passing Her Oral Qualifying Exam.

-10/20/2024 I am a UK Innovator www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZkHy6wW-Fk

-05/28/2024 Welcome Chloe Thompson to the Awuah lab to pursue high school summer research.

-05/03/2024 Congratulations To Chibuzor On Your Successful PhD Defense And Graduation! Continued Success In Your New Postdoc Role At The Mayo Clinic.

-05/03/2024 Congratulations To Adedamola On your successful phD defense and graduation! Continued success in your new Postdoc role at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

-05/02/2024 Congrats To Jovita and Oluwatosin for being selected for the competitive rising stars symposium at Sanford Burnham prebys, San Diego cA.

-04/04/2024 Congratulations to Aly on Receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF) award. Keep soaring!

-03/04/2024 Maame wins First place at the UK Startup Collegiate Pitch Competition. Congrats, Way to go! News article

-03/01/2024 Adedamola and Bukola welcome Baby Jeremiah, Congratulations and Enjoy this bundle of Joy!

-02/27/2024 Congratulations To Chibuzor And Chase For Receiving The Max Steckler Award.

-12/08/2023 Congratulations To Owamagbe And Udara For Passing Their Oral Qualifying Exam and receiving the Steckler Award.

-11/08/2023 Jovita wins 1st place at the University of Kentucky 3-minute thesis competition. Congratulations!

-07/01/2023 Samuel is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with indefinite Tenure. Many more wins ahead!

-06/27/2023 Congratulations Dr. Kim On accepting a faculty position at Asbury University! Wishing you great success in this new adventure.

-04/18/2023 Congratulations Jovita on a third place finish at the University-wide 2023 GradTeachLive!

-04/14/2023 Congratulations to Oluwatosin on Receiving the 2023 C.H.H. Griffin Outstanding General Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award!

-04/14/2023 Oluwatosin is awarded the Lyman T. Johnson Fellowship. Congratulations!

-03/21/2023 Congratulations To Owamagbe and Udara For Passing Their Written Qualifying Exam.

-03/10/2023 Adedamola has been accepted into the Corteva Agriscience Chemistry Scholar Symposium. Congratulations!

-03/03/2023 Emma and Sean were awarded fellowships for summer research at the Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory. Congratulations!

-02/22/2023 Congratulations to Maame Abena for passing her oral exam and is now a phd candidate. Way to Go!

-02/1/2023 Thanks to KSCHIRT for a Research grant to develop new therapies to treat TBI.

-12/15/2022 Sean and Aly (Aly will be co-advised by Prof. Lynn) join the Awuah Lab.

-11/25/2022 Oluwatosin receives UK Center for graduate and professional Diversity Initiative professional development grant. congrats!

-11/18/2022 Congratulations To Chase for Passing his oral qualifying exam! he is now a phd candidate.

-10/21/2022 Congratulations To Jovita and oluwatosin for passing Their written qualifying exam.

-10/03/2022 Congratulations to Breyanna for winning a aBRCMS travel grant to present her work!

-09/16/2022 Congratulations to Oluwatosin For Receiving funding as a uNITE Predoctoral Fellow!

-09/06/2022 Congratulations To Omar For Receiving NIH/NCI Supplement Funding To Join The Awuah Group As A Post-Baccalaureate Researcher!

-08/15/2022 Emma joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher!

-07/1/2022 The Kolesar and Awuah groups receive a collaborative grant from UK IRC to overcome platinum resistance in ovarian cancer!

-06/10/2022 Breyanna joins the Awuah Group as a markey STRONG Scholar!

-05/07/2022 Sailajah is our Freshly baked Dr. gukathasan. Good luck with your postdoc position in the Weerapana lab at boston College!

-04/21/2022 Congratulations to Jovita For winning this year's C.H.H. Griffin outstanding general chemistry teaching assistant award!

-04/11/2022 Maame joins the Awuah Group!