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Chemistry News & Events 2007
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Date
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Event
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| December | |
| 7th |
Retirement Drinks for John Bremner
...photos |
| 6th-7th |
Workshop: Ink Jet Printing Functional Materials |
| November | |
| 30th | |
| 16th | Thai Consul-General visits UOW School of Chemistry |
| October | |
| 28th-30th |
21st Annual Chemistry & IPRI Conference, Booderee N.P. Jervis Bay
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| Successful Research Grant Applications - Congratulations! | |
| 17th Oct | Professorial Lecture Professor Will Price "Phytoestrogens: are they Soy Good for you? Adventures with Bioactive compounds." Venue: 20.2 Time: 12.30pm |
| September | |
| 28th | Chemistry vs Biological Science Soccer Match |
| 26th | HDR COnference - Congratulations to Karina Gornall winning the Best Poster Prize at the recent Higher Degree Research Student Conference at UoW. Her poster was on " Electrospray Ionisation Mass Spectrometry of Higher Order Structures of DNA". See Karina's poster |
| 26th -28th | ACOVS-7 7th Australian Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy |
| 10th |
Illawarra Cancer Carers donating essential equipment to UOW drug research team |
| August | |
| 30th |
Halpern Lecture: "Chemistry in the Climate System." |
| 30th |
Student Prize Night |
| 20th | NSW Government provides UOW with $1 million nanotechnology grant |
| 20th | Bionics team set to make its mark on the world |
| 13th-17th |
International ARCNESS Winter School “Atmospheric composition observation and modeling” |
| July | |
| 30th |
Larry Hick's farewell. A large group of departmental members and friends farewelled Larry at the Food Re-thought restaurant ..... photos and more |
| 27th |
PhD student rewarded for anti-cancer drug research
Kristie Munro examines arsenic-treated leukaemia cells watched on by her supervisor, Dr Carolyn Dillon |
| 7th | Pam Morgan’s last day at work as the Faculty Purchasing Officer. A farewell lunch was attended by a multitude of Science Faculty members, other university staff and some company representatives. Pam has contributed greatly to the Faculty and developed many strong and lasting friendships over a period of 17 years. |
| Farewell and good luck to Allan Gamble, who starts a postdoctoral position at ANU. | |
| June | |
| 7th | Honours Seminars |
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| May | |
| 17th |
Congratulations to Michael Thomas! Highly Commended in the Annual Trailblazer Innovation Awards for "OzID - A new weapon in the fight against obesity, diabetes and heart disease:identifying the molecular structure of fats and oils faster, cheaper and more precisely!" Congratulations to Dr Jun Chen! Open winner first in the Annual Trailblazer Innovation Awards for "Nanostructured Flexible Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Energy System". |
| April | |
| 5th | Institute's international reputation attracts record PhD enrolments |
| March | |
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15th
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World's greatest Shave in Support of the Leukemia Foundation
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| Welcome Alberto Javier Granero-Rodriguez. Alberto is from Talavera de la Reina in Spain. He has an Industrial Chemistry Engineering degree from Escuela Universitaria Politecnica (Vallodolid, Spain) and a M.Chem Chemistry degree (first class) from University of Hull in the United Kingdom. He was awarded an IPRI scholarship. At UOW he will be working under the supervision of Gordon Wallace and Marc in het Panhuis on nanobionic materials | |
| Welcome Kathy Jacobs. Kathy has just started working as an administrative assistant three days a week with the Johnson and Johnson Research Laboratory (Steve Pyne and Alison Ung). Kathy previously worked for nineteen years with Australian Steel Mill Services at Port Kembla. | |
| Farewell. Mary Gresser from Paul Keller's group. Mary has accepted a two year postdoctoral fellowship at ANU and is due to start there on April 1st | |
| 23rd | Prof Gordon Wallace, Director of IPRI and ACES, elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences |
| February | |
| Congratulations Michael Thomas and Aravind Ramachandran who both won prizes for their presentations at the Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference in Christchurch (NZ). Michael won second prize for his oral presentation while Aravind won first prize for his poster. | |
| Farewell Vanessa Haverd. Vanessa has obtained a job as a research scientist with the CSIRO in Canberra. | |
| Welcome to Prof. David Officer. | |
| Congratulations to Shannon Little. who recently received an award from the CRC for Polymers for the best undergraduate thesis in Polymer Science Research during 2006. Shannon's supervisors are Steve Ralph and Gordon Wallace. | |
