Justin Shmordok, a PhD student in Chemistry, recipient of an Amit & Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student.
The Department of Chemistry would like to announce this year's award winners for the Don E. Irish Graduate Award: Songhao Bao (Nooijen), Meixin Cheng (Sciaini), Feng Li (Klinkova), Frank Guan (Leung), and Hunter Little (Duhamel).
The honour is awarded annually to “full-time graduate students completing their graduate degree in the Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Science on the basis of demonstrated excellence. “
Holger Kleinke, one of two researchers in the Faculty of Science, to receive funding from the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF).
Pharmaceutical drugs often take advantage of a specific shape in order to bind to the biological target. Some molecules, however, can exist with two versions that are mirror images of each other, similar to a left-handed and right-handed pair of gloves. In the body, often only one of the two molecules is an active pharmaceutical drug due to the difference in shape.
A new study shows that smoke from wildfires destroys the ozone layer. Researchers caution that if major fires become more frequent with a changing climate, more damaging ultraviolet radiation from the sun will reach the ground.
Congratulations to Professor Linda Nazar, who was awarded the 2022 E.W.R. Steacie Award by the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC).
Professor Scott Hopkins has been named the winner of the 2022 Keith Laidler Award for his outstanding early-career contributions to physical chemistry in Canada.
Congratulations to Remi Casier (PhD ’21) on receiving a 2021 Graduate Award from the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division (MSED) of the Chemical Institute of Canada.
Ryan Moreira, a doctoral student with Prof. Scott Taylor, was awarded best student presentation at the annual Quebec-Ontario Mini-Symposium for Synthetic and Bioorganic Chemistry (QOMSBOC), hosted by McMaster University on December 3rd and 4th, 2021.
For Michael Houston, PhD ’93, BSc ’87, the University of Waterloo is more than his alma mater. For a good chunk of his youth, the campus is where he called home.