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Boons, CCRC faculty member, named Franklin Professor | |
| By Phil Williams |
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Franklin Professorships were approved by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents in 1980 and established to honor selected faculty in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences for their service, administrative efforts and record of teaching and research. “This is an important recognition of the accomplishments of my research group,” says Boons. Boons’s appointment is pending approval by the board of regents. “Geert-Jan Boons is a superb faculty member, and I am delighted to welcome him to the rank of Franklin Professor,” says Dean Garnett S. Stokes of the Franklin College. “He joins a distinguished group of colleagues.” Boons has contributed significantly to many areas of science, including the development of new and better methods for synthesizing exceptionally complex molecules and the use of the new methods to synthesize and study the properties of complex -carbohydrates of increasing size and complexity. Many of the molecules that Boons’s group synthesized are designed to answer important biomedical questions. A native of the Netherlands, Boons joined UGA in 1997 as a professor in the CCRC and department of chemistry. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry and his doctoral degree in synthetic carbohydrate chemistry, both from the State University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He served postdoctoral assistantships at Imperial College, London, and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He also served as lecturer and then professor at the University of Birmingham in England before coming to UGA. Boons has won numerous awards for his work and belongs to a number of professional societies. He is on the editorial boards of the noted journals Carbohydrate Research and Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry. Since he arrived on campus, he has raised external funds for his research group in excess of $8 million. Currently the annual external income for his research group is more than $1.5 million. |
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