Filed under: Conferences, Group News | Tags: chitosan, earthy day, poster, research, sustainable development
Prof Art Ragauskas has been organizing an online poster celebration to celebrate Earth Day since 2010.
This year our group took part for the 1st time, as Khaled submitted a poster on his research surrounding the hydrolysis of chitosan. It is available here.
Thank you to Khaled for sharing his research with a wider audience and to all those involved in organizing this event.
Filed under: Conferences, Group News, Students | Tags: AIDW2012, Atlantic Canada, Graduate Studies, Inorganic Chemistry, Poster Prize
HSAB Periodic Table of Cupcakes!
Justin Bélanger (M.Sc. candidate, Kozak group) received a prize for 2nd place in the graduate student poster competition at the recent Atlantic Inorganic Discussion Weekend (AIDW) held in Charlottetown, PEI. Well done Justin for representing the MUN Green Chem. & Catalysis Group!
Filed under: Conferences, Group News, Science | Tags: iron chemistry, kozak, science news, seminar
Leeds at Night (by Andrew Roberts, UK)
Chris Kozak visited the School of Chemistry at the University of Leeds last week. He gave a departmental seminar on iron catalyzed reactions being studied by his students at Memorial University. Iron is popular metal to use in metal-catalyzed reactions for organic synthesis because it is cheap and non-toxic.
Chris and Fran were invited to participate in a departmental symposium and be the supporting act for Dr. Stephen Liddle (Nottingham University) who was giving his Royal Society of Chemistry Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship Award Lecture. Fran spoke about “Catalysis and Nanoparticle Formation Using Ionic Liquids” and Chris spoke about “Iron Complexes for C-C Cross-coupling Reactions”
They took the opportunity to do some sightseeing…..if you look carefully you might spot a photo of Fran giving her lecture!
Chris Kozak is vice-chair and webmaster for the 2012 Atlantic Inorganic Discussion Weekend (AIDW 2012). This annual conference is being held at University of Prince Edward Island on March 23-25.
MUN GCCG students – speak to Chris and Fran if you want to attend.
The website is: www.aidw2012.ca
Fran participated in the colloque la chimie verte durable in Anjou, QC on Wednesday Nov. 16th. It was a very stimulating meeting – primarily in French (so Fran got to ‘wake up’ the French part of her brain). She has come away with many useful contacts and ideas for future collaborations. It was a unique and exciting meeting with lots of enthusiastic chemistry researchers and green/sustainable chemistry supporters.
Some of the group out for a meal during the CSC 2011 in Montreal
A bumper number of students from the MUN Green Chemistry and Catalysis Group took part in the CSC this June in Montreal. Chris and Fran took them out to Modavie for a celebratory lunch. Well done to Kamrul, Rebecca, Justin, Elliott, Hassan, Khaled, Zhenzhong, Nduka, Marcus, Lisa, Michelle and Christina on their posters and oral presentations. You made a great impression on everyone you met!
Chris Kozak is the Inorganic Chemistry Exchange national Chair/Coordinator. Visit www.inorganicchemistryexchange.ca for more information. Chris, Fran and our ICE student Stephanie traveled to Montreal for the workshop in late August. Stephanie gave a fantastic talk on her Al chemistry. Well done Steph! After, all the talks were done – we went to Trois Brasseurs to celebrate.
Celebratory meal at the end of the ICE workshop in Montreal, August 2011
…to Rebecca Dean (Kozak Group) and Khaled Omari (Kerton Group) on their poster prizes at the Sustainable Chemistry Summit this past weekend. The MUN Green Chemistry and Catalysis group won 2 of the 3 prizes available.
This meeting organized by GreenCentre Canada will be held for the 2nd time in 2013. We are already looking forward to it. It was a fantastic experience and a chance to meet not only other University researchers but those from industry, entrepeneurs, tech-transfer specialists, NGO and government reps, consultants….the list goes on. Thank you GreenCentre for organizing this.
Here is a video that was produced in the run-up to this meeting and it tells you a little bit about Green Chemistry:
Khaled, Rebecca, Samantha, Chris and Fran are attending the Sustainable Chemistry Summit in Kingston, Ontario this weekend. We look forward to learning about the road ‘from lab to market’ and meeting new and old friends.
Zhenzhong and Nduka have recently returned to St. John’s after the extremely rewarding experience of attending the ACS summer school on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy. They advanced their knowledge of the field and made many new friends and contacts in the area. Congratulations to them on their participation.
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- Nduka receiving his certificate from Mary Kirchoff
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- Zhenzhong and Mary with his certificate
Green Chemistry @ MUN 