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Who says we need solvents? or even water for biocatalysis. Very cool research out of the UK:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141006085347.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it
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The deadline for NSERC CGS-M applications this year is December 2014. Information can be found on this webpage: http://www.mun.ca/science/chemgrad/cgs-m.php Good luck with your applications!
If you have any questions about the Chemistry graduate program or the interdisciplinary Environmental Science program at Memorial University – please get in touch with professors directly: http://www.mun.ca/science/chemgrad/faculty.php or fill in the request for information form at: http://www.mun.ca/science/chemgrad/
Today, the group got together at the Profs’ house for an early thanksgiving meal – so our German visitors could participate before heading home!
Happy Thanksgiving
Congratulations to our DAAD RISE Weltweit students, who will be returning to Germany soon. We wish them a safe journey home and an enjoyable RISE conference later in the Autumn/Fall.
If there are any Canadian BSc students (or US or UK ones) out there interested in a research internship in Germany next summer, please go to: https://www.daad.de/rise/en/ Memorial students please speak to Dr. Kerton if you want more information or have any questions.
Also, congratulations to Kenson Ambrose (Kozak group) and Hart Plommer (Kerton group) upon their transfer from the MSc stream to the PhD stream at Memorial.
Finally, congrats to Hassan (PhD 2011, Kerton group) on his new job as Senior Chemist at Avivagen Inc. in Ottawa.
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On behalf of MUN’s School of Graduate Studies:
There will be an information session on NSERC’s Canada Graduate Scholarship/Postgraduate Scholarship programs on Tuesday, September 23, 2014, at Bitters in Field Hall from 7-9 pm.
The session will provide tips on the specifics of writing a strong application. Undergraduate students in their final year, graduate students and faculty are welcome to attend this session. Refreshments will be available.
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Fran gave a well received lecture in the “Sustainable Aquaculture Technologies” symposium at OCEANS’14, which was held in our home city of St. John’s, NL. This is an annual conference organized by MTS (the marine technology society) and IEEE (Inst. of electronic and electrical engineering) OES (Oceanic Engineering Society). The day began early with a speakers breakfast at 7:00 am in the conference centre and ended with the change to mix-mingle and exchange business cards with the other speakers in her session. She was also interviewed by the CBC fisheries broadcast about the group’s research, and how a chemist could become involved in aquaculture. Via the link above, you can catch Fran at about 8:00 min in
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The MUN Green Cat Chem members taking a break from the Green Chemistry Gordon Research Conference to visit the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong
Our research group is busy trying to make fish and seafood waste into something else – hopefully one day we will turn it into something more valuable. Nowadays, when we have finished eating a shrimp or crab dish – the shells go into the trash and off to a landfill site. With space in landfills becoming less readily available, we can try to turn our waste into something else. In our case, this something else is a new chemical building block that we could turn into a new disease-fighting drug or into a new plastic. Chemicals are all around us in daily life (including the parts of this computer that I am using to write this blog post). To me it seems obvious to take one problem, waste, and to use it to solve another problem, making the objects we need and use everyday. In this way, we can all live a little bit more sustainably and take better care of our planet.
Dr. Kerton enjoying Singapore’s famous chili crab earlier this year – where did those shells go? probably to landfill
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As the summer of research draws to a close, we are sad to say goodbye to our undergraduate summer students but as one season finishes a new one begins. We are happy to welcome Cosima and Immanuel to our group. They are here through the DAAD RISE Weltweit/Worldwide program. We hope they enjoy their time with us. We will also soon be welcoming Tim to the group, as a graduate student. Tim completed his BSc(Hons) at Mt.Allison University in Sackville, NB. He conducted research with Prof. Glenn Briand.
Also, welcome to Heather Manuel, who will begin her PhD in Environmental Science (co-supervised with Bob Helleur), and Brandon Furlong, who is conducting his 490 (honours) research with Fran.
Image by Ramesh NG (Flickr.com)
Green Chemistry @ MUN 