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Event
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| August |
| 28-30 |
iC Scanning Probe Microscopy and Hands-On Workshop 2008 will be held by IPRI at the new Innovation Campus. |
| 20 |
Farewell to Will Price (Head School of Chemistry), who has accepted a new appointment as the Dean of the Faculty of Science. |
| 15 |
Farewell to Rob Whelan (Dean of Science), who has accepted a new appointment as President of the University of Wollongong Campus in Dubai. |
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Congratulations Jen Saville who won the student section of the UOW's annual Trailblazer innovation competition for her work on " A novel non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of the dry eye" and to Simon Moulton IPRI iwho was highly commended for his work on "In vivo site specific drug delivery: New technology to replace mulesing in sheep farming". |
| July |
| 10 |
Annual Halpern Symposium
Over one hundred and fifty chemists registered to attend the Halpern Symposium held this year in honour of John Bremner’s outstanding contribution to organic and medicinal chemistry teaching and research. |
| 10 |
Congratulations to this year's student award winners:
Larry Hick Prize (Ph.D student): Clare Murphy
Johnson and Johnson Prize (Medicinal Chemistry): Claire Mason
Halpern Prize (Honours): Claire Mason
RACI Prize (Overall undergraduate): Claire Mason
Gina Savage Prize (Female): Claire Mason
Peter Beckman Prize (3rd year): Christina Tortoricci
GW Daniel Prize (2nd year): Geoffrey Pidcock
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GRADUATION - 2008
Congratulations to our mid year higher degree graduates, including our first Saudi M.Sc students. ....photos
Ph.D
Joey Ambrus
Allan Gamble
Taryn Homes
Jinguo Kang
Yong Liu
M.Sc
Tariq Ateeq J Al Talhi
Mohammed Suliman M Al-Moiqli
Ali Kanakhir M Aldalbahi
Nidia Ivon Diaz-Garcia
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Congratulations to Melanie Cameron who is now officially our Lecturer fro science students at the Loftus campus and to Yoke Berry who has been appointed as our M.Sc Associate Lecturer. |
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Congratulations to two RIBG grant success Marc Panhuis with Steve Ralph, Nick Dixon, the Todd, Steve Blanksby, Geoff Spinks, Gordon Wallace and Mark Wilson and Michael Kelso with Paul Keller, Steve Pyne, Steve Blanksby, Jenny Beck, Danielle Skropeta, Carolyn Dillon, David Officer, Di Jolley and Marie Ranson. |
| June |
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Congratulations to Gordon Wallace who has been awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Award - " Research Excellence Award for Senior researchers ". |
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Congratulations to Paul Keller and Renate Griffith who have been awarded an ARC Linkage Project Grant. Project title is "The Design and Development of the Next Generation Anti-HIV Drugs". |
| 22 |
The first Asia - Pacific symposium on Nanobionics was held at the Innovation Campus. Professor Margaret Sheil, CEO of the ARC, gave the opening address and inventor of the cochlear ear implant, Professor Graeme Clark, gave the public Plenary lecture about " Connecting the world to human consciousness". |
| 30 |
NANO401 Introductory Talks
Ray Johnson “Polyaniline nanofibres”
Shane Ellis “Marrying Inkjet Printing with Mass-Spectrometry”
van Seng “Nanocomposites for Energy Storage/Generation”
Jared Barnes “Fabrication of nanostructured oxide materials for Li-ion batteries”
Cameron Ferris “Natural Polymer Composites”
David Marshall “Where have all the HALS gone?”
Dennis Antiohos “CNT Nanoweb Architectures”
Nick Payne “Flexible Energy Storage”
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| May |
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The atmospheric chemistry group welcomes Katinka Petersen from the Department of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen. Katinka is a PhD student in Bremen and here for 6 months on an Endeavour Research Fellowship.
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Thitima Urathamakul starts as the Facility manager in the Mass Spectrometry laboratories. |
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Congratulations Marie Ranson, Phillip Clingan, Tamantha Stutchbury, Craig Patch, John Bremner and Wilf Yeo who have been awarded a NH&MRC Development Grant for the project titled: Optimised delivery of chemotherapy for solid tumours. |
| 23 |
GerMANY Innovation Day. Andy Minett (IPRI) was one of three Wollongong scientists talking about their work experience in Germany. There was also a trade display by German companies and German refreshments (Bavarian beer). |
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Chemsoc comes second in annual Unicentre Cup. This year 20 clubs competed in four different pools (A – D) with the hope of claiming the ultimate prize in five different sports (badminton, dodgeball, soccer, oztag and volleyball). |
| April |
| 14 |
Third year instrumental chemistry students poster display Students prepared posters on a range of interesting and unusual topics with the only requirement being a chromatographic separation in the methods. |
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Congratulations Stephen Ralph who has received a Vice Chancellor’s OCTAL Award for his "outstanding contribution to teaching and learning". Steve was one of three academic staff to win this award and was the only award winner from the Science Faculty. |
| March |
| 12 |
Focus on ‘intelligent materials’ to launch the Research Strength Showcase Series
Prof. Leon- Kane Maguire
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Congratulations Yong Lui, PhD student IPRI, who received the Chinese Government's Award for Outstanding self financed students. Only 21 students within Australia chosen for this prestigious award. |
| 5 |
Working Safely in Science for new and existing members of the School |
| February |
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Congratulations Dennis Antiohos, David Marshall, Shane Ellis and Tom Higgins - four Nanotechnology undergraduate students who received ARC Centre of Excellence Electromaterials Science/IPRI scholarships to attend the International Conference of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience (ICONN2008) in Melbourne. |
| 24-28 |
Congratulations Brianna Thompson who was chosen by the ARC Nanotechnology Network and Australian Academy of Sciences to attend the first HOPE Meeting held in Tsukuba, Japan. |
| 26 |
Postgraduate Students Induction information |
| 20 |
BSc Honours new student information session |
| 4- 15 |
Chemistry Bridging Course for new first year students |
| January |
| 23-25 |
Siemens Science Experience
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