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Newsflash: Amy (NSERC USRA) and Dana’s (SWASP, after 1st year undergrad!) research efforts from Summer 2008 (Fe catalysed cross-coupling) have just been accepted for publication in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
ICE 2010/2011 – Applications are now due (deadline: October 22, 2010) with your departmental representative, see Chris’ ICE page for more details and an application form.
- Students from MUN have previously been placed at: Queen’s, Ottawa, Western, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and UVic
- One Queen’s (2007), one UVic (2008) and one UBC (2009) student have spent a summer at MUN. Students placed at MUN have seen their results published in Chemical Communications and Dalton Transactions.
In the news – Samantha and Hassan’ s participation in the Green Chemistry Summer School made it onto the University’s news site
September 2010 – Welcome to Justin and Elliott starting their graduate studies with Chris and to Christina starting her honours project with Fran. Our MUCEP students: Marcus and Michelle (Welcome Back!), and Nick (Welcome!)
May 2010 – Chris, Fran, Uttam, Kamrul, Rebecca, Xin and Amy attended the CSC in Toronto
June 2010 – Congratulations to Khaled on his postgraduate RDC (Research Development Coorporation NL) Ocean Industries Scholarship/Award – $30k for two years! Also, congratulations to Christina Price on her undergraduate RDC Ocean Industries Scholarship. Fran and Chris attended the International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis in Poznan, Poland.
July 2010 – Congratulations to Hassan and Samantha on their selection to attend the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy. Zhenzhong attended the Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry Conference in Hong Kong. He received a travel award from the organizers, congratulations!
Samantha’s green chemistry manuscript is at the proofs stage: Green Chem., DOI:10.1039/C0GC00205D.
Also, welcome to Kelly, WISE-SSEP student working alongside Lisa, Michelle and Rebecca! We hope you have a fun summer of chemistry!
Group Photo Summer 2010
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April/May 2010 – Welcome to our summer students: Jessica Besaw (NSERC USRA), Lisa Saunders (NSERC USRA), Marcus Drover (SWASP) and Michelle Pratt (SWASP) – all are joining us after completing their 2nd year at MUN.
Congratulations to Rebecca, Samantha and Khaled on their awards
Graduate Students Award Ceremony, May 2010
April 2010 – Thank you to our MUCEP students from the past year: Hanbyal Kim, Lisa Saunders and Michelle Pratt. Congratulations to our Honors’ students on completing their 490 A/Bs: Amy Reckling, Chad Petten and Elliott Chard. Well done! and best wishes for the future.
Breaking News…Congratulations to Amy on her NSERC scholarship for next year at U. of Ottawa.
March 2010 – Congratulations to Lisa Saunders (SWASP 2009) on her undergraduate poster prize and Rebecca Dean (PhD 2007 – present) on her graduate talk prize at the AIDW March 13th/14th (hosted by St. Mary’s University)
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November 2009 – Congratulations to Samantha Payne (2nd year PhD Candidate, Kerton Group) on her award of a ‘Provincial Government Special Scholarship for Students to Pursue Graduate Studies Related to Resource Development’. Samantha is also a current holder of an NSERC PGS-D award. She has been studying the solubility of bio-sourced chemicals in ‘green’ solvents and is currently investigating environmentally friendly transformations of xylitol and xylose (also known as wood sugars).
September 2009 – Welcome back to Chad, Amy and Elliott who begin work on their Honours’ projects and a belated welcome to Dr. Abudureyimu Kadeer (Xinjiang, China). Also, a special welcome to our MUCEP students – Michelle and Hanbyal
MUN GCCG July 2009: back row to front row, left to right - Nduka, Chad, Elliott, Khaled, Chris, Hassan, Zhenzhong, Xin, Fran, Kamrul, Uttam, Samantha, Jen, Rebecca, Amanda, Jill, Stephanie and Lisa
This summer there are 18 people in the group. We range from the Profs (Chris and Fran) to a High School Student (Jen participating in WISE SEPP). There are 9 graduate students (8 in the PhD program) and 7 undergraduates (funded through NSERC USRAs and SWASP)
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Hopefully, this will be an easier way to keep our group webpages updated. Time will tell!
News:
- July 2009, Welcome to our WISE SSEP student, Jennifer Smith.
- June 2009, Members of the group presented their research at the CSC in Hamilton. Amy Reckling won a poster prize! Dr. Kerton’s research is highlighted in the big story about research growth at Memorial. Here is her short story. Chad and Hassan’s work from last summer has been accepted for publication in Chemical Communications, DOI:10.1039/B909866F .
- May 2009, Congratulations to Chad Petten on his poster prize at APICS ChemCon 2009 (held at St. FX). Also, welcome to all our summer students: Amanda Zimmerman (NSERC USRA, ICE, from UBC), Stephanie Granville (NSERC CGS-M holder, soon to depart for grad school), Elliott Chard, Chad Petten (NSERC USRA), Nicole Brown, Lisa Saunders and Jillian Walsh.
- April 2009, Congratulations to Samantha Butt and Rebecca Dean on their NSERC PGS-D awards. Also, congratulations to Dr. Kerton on the renewal of her NSERC Discovery Grant and to Dr. Kozak (the principal applicant) on a successful NSERC RTI application for a new multinuclear NMR spectrometer.
- March 2009, 8 members of the group attended the MIDW at Moncton. Congratulations to Christina Price (Kerton Group, SWASP 2008, 1st year student at time of research) on her poster prize.
- January 2009, Charlotte Willans (PhD 2006, Kerton Group @ York) has begun her independent research career at the University of Leeds, UK. Congratulations and Good Luck to Charlotte!
Lab refurbishments and the departmental ventilation work (on the 5th floor) is progressing well – some photos are available here
Several pages have been updated and some photos uploaded (December 30th, January 30th)
Green Chemistry @ MUN 