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.
Chair, Internal Examiners, Supervisor and Candidate
Hassan successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday. Congratulations Hassan! and thank you to everyone who turned out to support him.
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Chris has been awarded the 2011 Terra Nova Young Innovator Award! Congratulations!
Prof. Phil Jessop (Queen’s University, Kingston, ON) visited the department yesterday, gave a talk on switchable surfactants and spent some time with our group. We’ve already had lots of great feedback from students and faculty – so even more new ideas and uses for switchable materials are on the horizon. Thank you Phil!
Many of the group will be attending the IYC/Chemistry Week event “Caffeinating with Chemists” at the Rocket on Water Street in St. John’s this evening. Fran will be giving a short presentation on Green Chemistry subtitled ‘It’s not easy being green or is it?’
Hassan Kalviri and Zhenzhong Hu have been recognised as Fellows of the School of Graduate Studies. Congratulations to them both on their achievement and recognition for their hard work.
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
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The schedule is up and available on Dr. Kerton’s homepage. They are at 3:00 pm in C2026 on Fridays. We can all go for a drink at Bitters afterwards!
…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.
Green Chemistry @ MUN 