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Travel Article from UK newspaper – St. John’s
There is a short video about St. John’s in this online newspaper travel article
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In late 2011 Dr. Chris Kozak received the Terra Nova Young Innovator Award, which is sponsored by Suncor Energy. The award provides Chris with a generous research grant to further pursue a project on the synthesis of polycarbonate plastics from CO2.
Zhenzhong’s (Kerton group) copper coordination chemistry paper “Coordination chemistry of α-ω-di(pyridyl-imine) ligands containing flexible linkers with copper(I)” has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. Special thanks to Louise Dawe for the X-ray structural determination and Celine Schneider for solid-state NMR and diffusion studies.
Rebecca and Kamrul (Kozak group) and a suite of collaborators have had their iron coordination chemistry paper accepted by Dalton Transactions: “Magnetic, electrochemical and spectroscopic properties of iron(III) amine-bis(phenolate) halide complexes”
Congratulations to them all and here’s to many more excellent publications in 2012!
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Today (Dec. 21st) will be the last day in the department for Dr. Fran Kerton and Dr. Chris Kozak. They will be on sabbatical for 2012.
The profs will still be replying to e-mails – so please write if you have any questions and we will try to respond promptly.
Happy Christmas!
Today the group went out for Lunch together…..a good time was had by all. I hope you all enjoyed your secret santa gifts 🙂
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- Christmas Trio
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- Group Xmas Photo
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- And hope you enjoy the break from the lab!
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- Happy Christmas!
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- Group Photo
Zhenzhong defended his thesis on Monday, December 12. Thank you to Dr. Tom Baker (UOttawa), Dr. Erika Merschrod S. (MUN) and Dr. Louise Dawe (MUN) for examining his thesis, and Dr. Patrick Byrne for chairing the defence. Congratulations Zhenzhong!
This was followed by Kamrul’s thesis defence on Tuesday, December 13. Thank you to Dr. Audrey Moores (McGill), Dr. Karen Hattenhauer (MUN) and Dr. Dave Thompson (MUN) for examining his thesis, and Dr. Paul Gillard for chairing the defence. Congratulations Kamrul!
Dr. Zhenzhong Hu, examiners, supervisor and chair at the end of his defence
Happy supervisor and new PhD at the end of the defence
Thank you to Ruby and all in Grad Studies for the photos and organizing the defences.
In hommage to Zhenzhong’s (Dr. Hu’s) defence, here is a link to the BBC’s Dr Who website and a short intro/clip featuring the other Tom Baker:
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Thank you to Jason Mercer (Computer Science) and Louise Dawe (Chemistry) for all their hard work in preparing the cover art for the December issue of European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, which features Nduka’s work on zinc complexes and their activity in ring-opening polymerization reactions.
Cover Art for European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
Congratulations to Lisa (BSc Hons student), Nduka (PhD candidate and mentor), Chad (Former undergraduate research assistant in Kerton group – now at MUN medical school) and Uttam (Former MSc student, now PhD candidate at UOttawa). Also, thank you to Louise Dawe for her continued X-ray crystallography collaborations with our groups.
The paper is titled “Coupling of Carbon Dioxide with Neat Propylene Oxide Catalyzed by Aminebisphenolato Cobalt(II)/(III) Complexes and Ionic Co-catalysts” and has been accepted for publication in Catalysis Communications (published by Elsevier). Well done everyone!
Chris Kozak is vice-chair and webmaster for the 2012 Atlantic Inorganic Discussion Weekend (AIDW 2012). This annual conference is being held at University of Prince Edward Island on March 23-25.
MUN GCCG students – speak to Chris and Fran if you want to attend.
The website is: www.aidw2012.ca
An early welcome to Dalal Alhashmialameer! She is joining our group in January from Saudi Arabia having completed an English language course at Memorial. Her PhD will be co-supervised with Karen Hattenhauer. Good luck in your studies and research, Dalal!
Also, thank you to our MUCEP students this semester: Jessica, Jennifer and Landon. Thank you for all your work in the lab.
Also, thank you to Hassan, Zhenzhong and Kamrul for all their help during their PhD studies. We wish you all luck in your future careers and continued success in research.
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