Congratulations to Dr Stephen Moggach, the winner of the Head of College prize for Inclusion and Diversity.

Stephen has been recognised for his work in organising our Athena Swan submissions over the last few years and leads our Equality and Diversity Team.

Prof. Lesley Yellowlees, Head of the College of Science and Engineering, congratulated the winners, saying "The calibre of the applications was simply outstanding which presented the judges with quite a challenge to choose a winner."

Congratulations to Prof. Paul Attfield and his team (Dr Angel Arevalo-Lopez, Dr Elise Pachoud, Dr James Cumby, Dr Calum Lithgow) who have been awarded a Daiwa Adrian Prize for Materials Discovery using Extreme Conditions.

These Prizes are awarded by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation on a triennial basis in recognition of significant scientific collaboration between British and Japanese research teams.

We enjoyed considerable success at the recent 50^th Universities of Scotland Inorganic Chemistry (USIC) conference.

Congratulations to Simon Reeves from the Mount Group on wining the best poster prize at the ATALANTE Conference 2016 in Montpellier (Nuclear Energy for Sustainable Cycles). 

The ATALANTE Conferences provide an international forum for presentations and discussions on advances for future fuel cycles and waste management.

Congratulations to Helen O'Connor and Sergio Sanz from the Brechin Group for winning best poster at the International Conference on Molecule-based Magnets in Sendai, Japan.

Congratulations to Xiaojiao Liu, a PhD student in the Pulham group, who was awarded the Young Scientist Poster Award at the 2016 IUCr High-Pressure Workshop held in South Korea. 

Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart, Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Professor Bernard L Feringa have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on molecular machines.

Professer Sir Fraser Stoddart studied Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, receiving his undergraduate degree in 1964 and his PhD in 1966. He was also awarded a DSc degree by the University in 1980 for his research into stereochemistry beyond the molecule, was named Edinburgh's Alumnus of the Year in 2005 and knighted in 2006.

Congratulations to Dr Scott Cockroft on being awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

The £100,000 award is for his work on answering fundamental questions regarding the nature of molecular interactions and chemical reactivity.

Congratulations to two students from the OPTIMA Doctoral Training Centre who were finalists in the recent MRC Max Perutz Scientific Writing Award.

Katie Ember, from Dr Colin Campbell's group, was the runner up with her article titled "Cholangiocarcinoma: The Cancer You've Never Heard Of".

Congratulations to Rowan Clark, from Professor Colin Pulham's Group, for the award of Best Presentation at the Energy Technology Partnership Conference held in Aberdeen. Her talk title was entitled "Crystallographic Studies for the Development of Next-Generation Heat-Storage Materials"