Green Chemistry @ MUN


More Regatta Day BBQ Photos
August 13, 2013, 11:59 pm
Filed under: Group News, Group Photos, St. John's

Thank you to the Walsh Family and particularly Andrew (SWASP 2013, Kerton Group) for these extra photos:



Group Photo – Kaijie, Chris, Fran, Greg, Fabio, Jeremy, Greg, Rebecca, Ali, Kata, Lindsay and Kayla
August 13, 2013, 10:57 pm
Filed under: Group News, Group Photos
Group Photo - Aug 13 2013

Group Photo – Aug 13 2013

For students who were away (Yi, Dalal etc.) and new students – we’ll take a new photo in September 🙂

bosses

The Green Chemistry Group’s Wonderful WISE girls 2013



Another Top Ten Paper
August 8, 2013, 5:17 pm
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Another Top Ten Paper

Fran, Yi, Khaled and Kelly’s perspective article “Green Chemistry and the Ocean-Based Biorefinery” was one of the most accessed articles in Green Chemistry during March 2013. Congrats team!



Happy Regatta Day 2013
August 8, 2013, 2:17 pm
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Happy Regatta Day 2013

Members of the Green Chemistry and Catalysis Group and Friends met at Chez Kerton-Kozak for a BBQ and bonfire. A good time was had by all…..there may be more photos to follow 😀



MUN Department of Chemistry welcomes 13th Atlantic Theoretical Chemistry Symposium
August 1, 2013, 11:15 am
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The 13th Atlantic Theoretical Chemistry Symposium will be held at Memorial University August 3-4. We will have 30 presentations from local, regional, national, and international speakers. Members of department are welcome to attend the lectures free of charge. The program book is available here:
http://www.mun.ca/compchem/atcs/ATCS_Program_Book.pdf

Some of the group may want to attend some talks 😀



ACS Summer School with Kata and Greg
July 31, 2013, 9:27 pm
Filed under: Conferences, Group News, Group Photos, Science, Students

Kata (Kozak group) and Greg (Kerton group) had an awesome experience last week at the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable energy in Golden, Colorado.

Here are a couple of photos:
Colorado - certificate

Colorado - Green Chem T-shirt



More info on Jess’ Julie Payette Award
July 12, 2013, 4:34 pm
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Jessica Besaw (co-author on Green Chem. 2012, Hydrolysis of Chitosan paper; NSERC USRA in Kerton group 2010) is the recipient of a Julie Payette award (one of 24 nationwide). Find out more by reading the news on the Faculty of Science website



Kozak-Shaver catalysts feature in ACCN magazine
July 6, 2013, 7:31 pm
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Kozak-Shaver catalysts feature in ACCN magazine

News article/interview on Fe catalysts developed at MUN in conjunction with UPEI – now in-licensed with GreenCentre Canada.



Welcome to Kayla and Lindsay
July 3, 2013, 11:11 am
Filed under: Group News, Science, Students

Just a short post to say hello and welcome to the group to our WISE SSEP students. We hope you enjoy your time in our group and also all the other fun activities and friendship that WISE SSEP involves. Have a great summer!



Dr. Kozak invited to speak at ICCC 2014 in Singapore
June 29, 2013, 11:11 pm
Filed under: Chemistry Professors, Conferences, Group News

Dr. Kozak is looking forward to giving an invited lecture in the Transition Metal Complexes in Homogeneous Catalysis Symposium at the 2014 International Conference on Coordination Chemistry in Singapore.