Robinson honored at 2023 Blue Key Awards Banquet

Greg H. Robinson, UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the Franklin College of Arts and Science, was awarded the 2023 faculty Blue Key Service Award at the university’s annual Tucker Dorsey Blue Key Alumni Banquet on Nov. 10 at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel. 

The Blue Key Honor Society is a national organization whose members are committed to leadership in student life, high scholastic achievement, service to others and citizenship. Established in 1924 at the University of Florida, the organization’s third chapter was established at the University of Georgia in 1926.

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021, Robinson has received numerous awards including the Southern Chemist Award (1998), the Herty Medal (2008), the Humboldt Research Prize (2012), the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry (2013), and the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Faculty Achievement Award (2014). Robinson’s research, involving the synthesis, structure, and reactivity of unusual main group molecules, has been described as provocatively innovative. He serves on the board of the UGA Research Foundation.

Image: from left: Michael Duncan, Regents Professor in the department of chemistry; Jonathan Amster, Distinguished Research Professor; Greg Robinson; Tina Salguero, associate professor ; Phuong Tran, graduate student; Anna Stenport, dean of the Franklin College; and Yuzhong Wang, senior research scientist, department of chemistry.