Congratulations to Giulia Novelli, a 1st year PhD student in the Parsons group, who has been awarded a poster prize in the IUCr Journals Applied Crystallography category at the European Crystallographic Meeting in Oviedo last week for her poster "Carbon Molecules in Space: a Thermal Equation of State Study of Solid Hexamethylenetetramine."
Congratulations to Rebecca Nicolson, Daniel De Rosa, Connor Halliday, and Martin Stanford, who have achieved Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
Katie Ember, from Colin Campbell's group in the Optima Centre for Doctoral Training, has been awarded best student journalist for Great Britain and Ireland of 2018 by the Association of British Science Writers.
Congratulations to Annabel Serpico, from Prof. Dominic Campopiano's group, who has been awarded the runner-up prize for best talk at the RSC CBBG group post-graduate meeting in Leeds.
Congratulations to Ellie Tanaka who won a poster prize at the recent Japan-UK symposium on Coordination Chemistry held in St Andrews. Ellie is a postgraduate student in Professor Neil Robertson's group.
Qingshu Zheng from Dr Scott Cockroft's group was also awarded a poster prize.
Good luck to School of Chemsitry student Tianyue Li who will take part in today's 3 Minute Thesis Science and Engineering Heat. Her presentation is titled "A Song of Light and Electricity".
Congratualtions to Jamie Purkis, a PhD student in the Love/Arnold group, who won first prize at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority PhD Seminar, held in Manchester in January.
Jamie won for his talk entitled "Polyoxo Actinide Chemistry". The research is funded by the National Nuclear Laboratory as part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's PhD bursary scheme and Jamie would like to thank them for their involvement.
Well done Jamie!
Congratulations to Alex Elmi from Dr Scott Cockroft's group on winning the Nature Chemistry poster prize at the RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (MASC) Early Career Researchers' meeting.
The meeting was held today at the University of Southampton. Alex's poster presentation was on solvent effects in aromatic stacking interactions.
The 2017 Postgraduate course in liquid-state NMR spectroscopy was attended by 90 participants. In the true spirit of SNUG (https://www.snug.ac.uk/ ), and encouraged by ScotCHEM's (https://www.scotchem.ac.uk/) bursaries, more than 30 postgraduates came from all Scottish universities.
Jenn Ross, an EastBIO PhD student in the Clarke Group won the poster prize at the recent Scottish Microscopy Group Symposium for her work characterising bacterial encapsulins by electron microscopy and mass spectrometry.
Well done Jenn!
