Dr. Kerton’s NSERC Discovery Grant has been renewed at $43000 per year for 5 years.
This grant will be used to partially pay the stipends of Yi Liu (PhD), Greg Curtis (MSc), George Margoutides (PhD), Hart Plomer (MSc) and Coralee Ridder (MSc). It is also used to contribute towards the stipends of the following co-supervised students: Jen Murphy (PhD with Hawboldt, Engineering), Valerie Parsons (MSc with Bottaro, Chemistry) and Shafaet Chowdhury (PhD with Kozak, Chemistry).
Thank you to all current and former students who helped produce the results during the last funding period, which allowed the grant to be renewed. Here’s hoping for lots of exciting results during this next 5 year period.
** Dr. Kerton has also received a ‘stopover in a commonwealth country’ travel grant from the RSC, which will cover some of the costs towards a diversion from Hong Kong to Singapore. She will be visiting Hong Kong to attend the Green Chemistry Gordon Research Conference and Singapore to collaborate with Prof. Ning Yan at the National University of Singapore.**
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Stephanie has just received news that she got an NSERC CGS-D3 award – Congratulations and very well deserved. She is pursuing graduate studies with Prof. Gilroy at Western.
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Scotland aims at playing a leading role in the £360 bln global industrial biotechnology market.
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Jenna’s latest Green Chemistry blog post discusses recent research on using carbon dioxide in solvent systems to dissolve cellulose. Check out the full paper for details!
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Photos from WISE-Statoil Speaker Series
Fran’s WISE-Statoil talk was well-received on Wednesday evening with a broad spectrum of people in attendance from school children to retirees, from students to local entrepeneurs and of course engineers and scientists. Thanks to all who came out and the organizers. We hope you enjoyed it. If you want to find out a little bit more about Green Chemistry, check out Alicia’s article in the Science & Technology Section of the Muse newspaper: http://themuse.ca/2014/03/17/what-is-green-chemistry/
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Fran (Dr. Kerton) will be giving a public lecture next week….the title is ‘Can Chemicals Be Green?’ It should come as no surprise that her answer will be ‘Yes’
Her talk will begin at 6.30 pm on Wednesday March 19th in the Fluvarium (a nature/interactive museum/aquarium) close to the University campus.
She will provide an overview of her studies in the field of Green Chemistry. She will also discuss the importance of mentors (from both sides of the partnership), teamwork, decision-making and risk-taking in scientific and technological careers.
You can register to attend by going to this website:
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e90ift5q7bdd7a50&llr=sco4cxdab
There will be a mixer and refreshments afterwards.
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Great idea – Look at the long list of member companies already involved
The American Chemistry Council
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) – focused on anticipating and preventing accidents, as well as on educating the public about how to use chemical products safely – created a new Biobased Chemistry Network to help educate policymakers on how to develop workable regulatory programs for the growing biobased chemistry industry. Global sales of this segment range from $13.5 billion to $20 billion, with the US accounting for approximately 20 percent of those sales, or $2.7 billion to $4 billion.
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Congratulations to Karen, Fabio, and Philipp, our 2013 RISE students, for their 1st and 3rd place wins in the RISE photo contest! They snapped these creative photographs during their time in the Green Chemistry and Catalysis Group. Have a look at their winning entries here. Fabio is featured in the bottom photo!
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The GCCG has a brand new, state of the art GPC/SEC system for polymer characterization. The GPC includes Agilent’s LC front end and Wyatt’s world-leading multi-angle laser light scattering, viscometry and refractive index detectors. This will take the polymer chemistry research in the group to the next level.
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Ning Yan (Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore) has many research interests similar to our group.
His team have recently published their results on chitin conversion in the journal Green Chemistry. Fran Kerton collaborated with them on this research, and is looking forward to visiting their group this summer to further collaborative efforts.
Ning’s paper is featured in the blog of the RSC journal Green Chemistry and by a twist of fate was summarized by Jenna Flogeras (Graduate Student, Kerton Group). Jenna is performing research on CO2 activation and polymerization reactions. Other students in the Kerton group (Yi Liu, Greg Curtis and George Margoutides) are performing research on chitin, chitosan and aminosugars.
Green Chemistry @ MUN 