Green Chemistry @ MUN

Are you Canadian or a Canadian Permanent Resident? Will you be graduating with an undergraduate degree in chemistry next year? Do you have a B+ or higher average? Are you interested in Green Chemistry and Catalysis? Why not apply for an NSERC scholarship and come join us at MUN for grad school! NSERC scholarship holders receive merit awards from the Dean of Graduate studies upon arriving at our University.

The deadline for NSERC CGS-M applications is December 1st. http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/CGSM-BESCM_eng.asp

Don’t forget to speak to your profs about writing a recommendation  – it normally takes us a week to craft a really good and personal reference letter for you.

[If you think your GPA is not high enough for an NSERC scholarship – please get in touch with us anyway about opportunities for Grad studies at MUN. Funding is available from the School of Graduate Studies, Teaching assistantships and Research assistantships…..which means you earn a salary while you study! and tuition fees for grad studies are amongst the best value in Canada. Please consider joining us on the Rock!]

Exciting to see the foundations being laid. We are scheduled to move into our lovely new facility in Fall 2019.

Building progress ~ Oct 30th 2015

Work has now begun on Memorial’s New Science Building. We are all very excited about moving in 2019!

New PhD students beginning in Sept 2016 will end up doing some of their research in this new state-of-the-art facility.

Building Site (Photo taken from University Centre) – October 2015

Source: Developing Green Chemistry Content for First-Year Undergraduate Laboratories

• Welcome Jochen Koerner (Interdisciplinary PhD candidate) – Jochen is co-supervised by Fran Kerton, Charlie Mather (Geography), Jim Feehan (Economics) and Cynthia McKenzie (DFO and adjunct-Biology).
• Fran Kerton was promoted to full professor on September 1st.
• Chris Kozak attended the Faraday Discussion on Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Sheffield and also visited Oxford University.
• Hart Plommer passed his comprehensive exam.
• The group had a potluck at the bosses’ house 🙂

Congratulations everyone on a very eventful month!

12 members of the group went camping or glamping at Terra Nova National Park during the past weekend. Everyone had a fantastic time – going to the beach, hiking, playing soccer and exploring. We all highly recommend the oTentiks at the National Parks, which meant we didn’t have to put up tents or sleep on the floor.

Kata’s image design was selected to adorn the cover of the September 21 issue of Polymer Chemistry, wherein her paper on CO2/epoxide copolymerization is published (available here as open access). Kata is also a co-author on two other recent papers in Faraday Discussions and Dalton Transactions.

Congratulations to all our co-authors!

To our blog/webpage readers:

We recently made a couple of videos at the ACS meeting in video:

We hope you enjoy watching them.

(They aren’t perfect but they give you an idea of what we are about!)

Congratulations to all group members and collaborators on their work published in Polyhedron this month. It is for a special issue on Inorganic Chemistry in Canada. We feel very honored to be invited to participate in this 🙂

M. W. Drover et al., Polyhedron, 2015, 102, pp. 60-68, 10.1016/j.poly.2015.07.071

Time to resurrect this colorful image prepared by Marcus Drover for the Inorganic Division CSC calendar

The article is available free to anyone who is interested at: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1RXEB_6JtpfkIA  but only until Oct. 2nd 2015.

Hart’s cover art was selected by Dalton Transactions for the July 21st issue on “Earth Abundant Element Compounds in Homogeneous Catalysis”  Congratulations!