Green Chemistry @ MUN

The department has an excellent graduate student recruiting page where you can find information on funding etc.

This year NSERC CGS-M applicants are asked to name departments where they would like to conduct research – find out more by following the links on the graduate student recruiting page

NOTE: (a) Successful recipients will receive the Dean’s Excellence Award of $5000 (as ‘top-up’); (b) Candidates must apply to Memorial’s School of Graduate Studies for admission in 2014 (May or September start) by February 1 2014 in order to be considered for one of these awards. The application fee is $50, which Dr. Kerton or Dr. Kozak will reimburse upon your arrive in St. John’s. (c) First round of award announcements will be made on April 1st and acceptance/decline must be made by April 22nd. After April 23rd, further offers may be made if not all awards are accepted.

We posted this news on our blog a while ago BUT now it is official…..it is on a government of Canada website 🙂 So here is the blurb from the Chemistry department facebook page:

“Congratulations to Marcus Drover, a graduate of the Department of Chemistry at Memorial and currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia. Marcus was awarded the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, which supports his research through a scholarship in the amount of $50,000 per year for 3 years. Only the top 165 applicants across all doctoral programs in Canada are given this award. Marcus began his scientific career as a undergraduate researcher in the Kerton and Thompson labs, where he published 3 peer-reviewed scientific papers in top journals in the field. Details of the announcement are provided here:
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/47404.html “

Angela Crane, who was an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Kozak’s group and also participated in ICE, is writing her PhD thesis at UBC but she has found the time to travel and inspire the next generation of scientists in rural BC.

You can find out more about her outreach work by clicking here.

As our DAAD Rise students will have returned to Germany by the time Canadian Thanksgiving arrives, we decided to have an early Thanksgiving celebration this year 🙂

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