Congratulations to Dr James Cooper, from Dr Scott Cockroft's group and PhD student Bec Spicer from Dr Paul Lusby's group who both won poster prizes at the 2016 RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry conference.

Congratulations to PhD student Giuditta Perversi, from Prof. Paul Attfield's group, who won the runner-up poster prize at the RSC Solid State Christmas Meeting in Loughborough.

Congratulations to Mohammed Alkattan, from Dr Michael Shaver's group, for his "Best Poster" prize at the recent Frontiers in Green Materials Conference.

The one-day event provided a forum to discuss and inspire inter-disciplinary, innovative research based on reducing the use of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical and material products. It was held in London on the 12th of December.

The winner of the 2016/17 Fraser and Norma Stoddart Chemistry Prize is Dr Yue Hu.  Yue's supervisor during her PhD was Prof Neil Robertson.

The Stoddart Prize will be awarded on the afternoon of Monday, 10 April 2017 by Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2016 for his work on molecular machines.

Dr Stephen Thomas has been chosen as the UK's representative at this year's EuCheMS Young Investigator Workshop (YIW).

The event will be hosted by the University of Cologne in Bergisch Gladbach.

Professor Neil McKeown, Tercentenary Professor of Chemistry, is one of 60 new Fellows elected this year.

Congratulations to Will Kew, from Dr Uhrin's group, who won the Best poster prize at the 2017 conference with his poster: "Scotch Whisky as Interrogated by Advanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Chemometrics".

Congratulations to Dr James Cooper, from the Cockroft group, who has been awarded a silver medal for hs poster presentation at the 2017 STEM for Britain competition.

The posters were presented to a group of MPs at Westminster and the medal is accompanied by a £2,000 prize. This is James' last week on group duties as he is flying off to a postdoctoral position with Nobel Prize winner Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart from 1st April.

Congratulations to our first Christina Miller Fellow, Dr Jenni Garden, who has been awarded a two-year, highly prestigious British Ramsay Memorial Fellowship.  Jenni will take up this Fellowship when her Christina Miller Fellowship ends in September 2018.

PhD student Annabel Serpico and post-doc Peter Harrison, from Prof. Campopiano's group, were both winners at the recent RSC Directing Biosynthesis V conference in Warwick.

There were 113 posters and 2 out of 3 poster prizes were awarded to Annabel and post-doc Peter. Well done to both!