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9/2018 Our paper on vitamin-based pro-fragrances is published in New Journal of Chemistry! Also, check out the back cover for our artwork!
8/2018 GRB got promoted to Associate Professor of Chemistry, huzzah!
7/2018 Kellie heads off to start graduate school at UC Davis. Great job!
6/2018 Kellie's review on the reagent,TASF, was accepted to e-EROS. Contrats Kellie!
5/2018 Congrats to Brittany for receiving FGCU's Seidler Summer Research Fellowship!
3/2018 The group had a great time at FLoHet and congrats to Brittany for winning best undergraduate poster!
12/2017 Kyle is heading off to start graduate school at Georgia State University. Good luck!
10/2017 Dr. Boyce attended the biennial conference for Gamma Sigma Epsilon at Niagara University and was elected to the National Executive Board.
9/2017 Kyle’s review of Cu(box) catalysts was accepted to e-EROS! Congrats Kyle.
6/2017 GRB and Kellie presented at the National Organic Symposium at UC Davis.
5/2017 GRB gave a talk at FAME (Florida ACS Meeting and Expo) and Kyle presented a poster that was picked as one of the top 5 undergraduate posters.
5/2017 Congratulations to Brian for his acceptance to his first choice medical school.
5/2017 Congratulations to Kyle for receiving the “Student of the Year” Award as voted by the Chemistry faculty of the graduating students.
5/2017 Congratulations to the 20 new initiates in the Gamma Sigma Epsilon Chemistry Honor Society.
4/2017 Congratulations to GRB for receiving the FGCU’s Excellent in Faculty Mentoring Award for 2017.
4/2017 Jessica and Brian’s paper on the regioselective etherification of pyridoxine was published in Tetrahedron Letters.
4/2017 GRB presented the group’s work on the stereoselective synthesis of thujone at the National ACS meeting in San Francisco.
2/2017 Congratulations to Kellie for receiving the Seidler Summer Research Fellowship! Looking forward to making some natural products.
10/2016 Kyle and Brian presented their work at SERMACS in Colombia, SC.
6/2016 Congratulations to Sam for being profiled by Naples Daily News for being the graduate of distinction at her high school. She’ll be attending Yale University in the Fall.
5/2016 Congratulations to Jessica and Chelcie for publishing our groups first paper in J. Agric. Food Chem. on the racemic synthesis of thujone and detection of the previously unobserved stereoisomers in nature.
5/2016 Congratulations to Jessica, Sherzod, and Mike for graduating! Best of luck and thanks for all your great work
3/2016 Congratulations to the 8 new initiates in the Gamma Sigma Epsilon Chemistry Honor Society.
2/2016 Congratulations to Sherzod (U. of Chicago) and Jessica (U. of Michigan) for getting into their top choices for graduate school.
11/2015 Brian, Sam, and Jessica presented their research at SERMACS in Memphis, TN.
10/2015 GRB and Jessica attend the Biannual Gamma Sigma Epsilon Meeting in Greensburg, PA. 
8/2015 Boyce Group an NSF-MRI to acquire a new JEOL 400 MHz NMR. This is our first research grade NMR at FGCU and it’ll be a game changer
5/2015 GRB served as faculty advisor for the FGCU chapter of the Global Medical Brigades in Estelli, Nicaragua. What an experience! Read about it on FGCU 360.
Spring 2015 Congrats to honorary member, Caylee Hill, for winning the Florida State Science Fair for her work on the isolation of Vincristine from locally grown periwinkles! Here’s a highlight from her work on NBC-2.  Her work was also highlighted in FGCU’s Pinnacle Magazine.
Spring 2014  Congratulations to GRB for founding a chapter of the Gamma Sigma Epsilon National Chemistry Honor Society at FGCU. Our first initiation class has over 20 students.
11/2013 Took our chemistry majors to present their research at SERMACS in Atlanta. Afterwards, Prof. Huw Davies group at Emory was so kind to give them a lab tour. Thanks guys!