Green Chemistry @ MUN

During the remainder of September and into October, we will be profiling some of the new students in our group.

Welcome to Kori Andrea. She joins us from Cape Breton University where she completed her B.Sc.(Hons) degree in chemistry. In addition to completing her honours thesis with Martin Mkandawire (Dept of Chemistry and Verschuren Cenre for Sustainability), she has performed summer research incl. a work term in Germany funded by DAAD and was extensively involved with the chemistry society there incl. hosting the Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan.  She currently holds an NSERC CGS-M award in the Kerton group and is performing research related to catalyst development for carbon dioxide activation.

Kori at Flatrock, NL, September 2016

The School of Graduate Studies will hosting information sessions online during the next semester: http://www.mun.ca/become/graduate/webinars/

Learn about Memorial, how to complete an application etc.

Information for prospective students in the chemistry department can be found here: http://www.mun.ca/science/chemgrad/

For Canadians applying for NSERC scholarships, the deadline is December 1st: http://www.mun.ca/science/chemgrad/cgs-m.php and NSERC’s website, http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/CGSM-BESCM_eng.asp and the SGS website https://www.mun.ca/sgs/current/scholarships/national.php

Holders of NSERC scholarships receive a $5k per year Dean’s excellence award.

Welcome to Memorial University, from us and our alumni

This is a little video on youtube.

There are so many opportunities here. We all (professors, graduate students and undergraduate research assistants) have traveled far and wide to promote and talk about our research.

Due to the new residence buildings and increasing graduate student numbers, apartment style accommodations on campus are now being made available to graduate students. There is a link to apply at the bottom of the news story.

https://gazette.mun.ca/student-life/more-housing-for-graduate-students/

Many members of the group attended a bonfire (lots of hotdogs and s’mores) on Middle Cove beach yesterday evening. This was an event organized by the MUN Chemistry Graduate Student Society and hosted by our own Jen Murphy. Well done Jen on organizing such a fun event. The weather was perfect ~20 degrees and breathtaking waves were crashing on the beach and rocks due to the full moon. Newfoundland is such a beautiful place to live.

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Congratulations to the most recent members of the Kerton group to get fantastic jobs and start their ‘real’ life outside of Universities.

Coralee has moved to the west coast of Canada and is working for Sialco Materials Ltd.

Jenna has got her dream job and is a junior/assistant editor with Wiley in Germany

Valerie has stayed closest to home and is working for Vale in Labrador.

Congratulations and well done on your success!

Congratulations to Rebecca O’Leary (Volunteer Summer 2013 and NSERC USRA 2014) and Michaela Ryan (Faculty of Science Summer Undergraduate Research Award 2014 and MUCEP 2014) on their places at Memorial University’s School of Medicine in the Fall. We wish you every success in your future studies and career!

George Margoutidis (PhD candidate, Kerton Group) has been awarded a Researcher Mobility Grant by the Royal Society of Chemistry. This will allow George to spend 1 semester (3 months) performing research at the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies at the University of Bath, UK, with Prof. Janet Scott. Congratulations George!

We are very happy to welcome two NL high school students to work in our group for the next 8 weeks. We hope Katelyn and Hannah enjoy being part of our chemistry family and learn lots of new, interesting and exciting science.

WISE-SSEP NL began in 1990 and the Kerton and Kozak groups have been taking part since 2006/7.  You can find out more about the program here: WISE-NL

Today, as tomorrow is the holiday ‘Canada Day’, we say goodbye to our interns from Bethune I.U.T., France. We very much enjoyed having them part of our team. We wish them a safe journey home and à bientôt 🙂

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