A collaboration between Sunamp Ltd. and Professor Colin Pulham has been highlighted in a recent Interface blog post.

This year's Stoddart Prize was awarded to Dr Andrew Maloney on Monday 18^th April.

Before accepting the prize from Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart, Dr Maloney gave a lecture about his research entitled "Intermolecular distances and intermolecular energies - PIXEL analysis of interactions in organic and inorganic systems".

The School recently held a symposium and dinner in memory of Evelyn Ebsworth.

Professor Ebsworth was a huge presence during his time at the School and many of our alumni will have fond memories of him.

The symposium featured two external speakers with particularly close links to Evelyn. His grandson Alistair Overy, who is currently studying for a DPhil in Chemistry at the University of Oxford, gave a lecture entitled "Disorder-phonon coupling in crystal-like aperiodic solids".

Research led by Dr Colin Campbell could help improve radiotherapy treatments for cancer.

The study used 3D cell cultures to better model the effect of radiation on human cancer cells. Gold nanoshell sensors were used to track the effectiveness of treatment and the study found that using 2 half-doses of radiation rather than one large dose was more effective in destroying the cancer cells.

The sensors give information in real time, allowing doctors to monitor the treatment as it occurs.

Dr Michael Seery has been appointed as Associate Editor of Chemistry Education Research and Practice (CERP), joining editor Prof Keith Taber from the University of Cambridge. 

CERP is the world's leading chemistry education journal, published quarterly by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). It is a journal for teachers, researchers and other practitioners in chemistry education. CERP is free to access thanks to sponsorship by the RSC's Education Division. 

Dr Olof Johansson and Dr Stephen Thomas have booth been elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland.

Congratulations to Nicholas Dominelli-Whiteley from Dr Scott Cockroft's group who was selected from among around 100 poster presenters as a prize winner at the 23rd IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry held last week in Sydney, Australia.

His poster was entitled "The energetic limit of cooperativity in H-bond chains."

The IUPAC conference is a biannual event which has previously been held in Durham and Ottawa.

Dr Marc Reid, from the Lloyd-Jones group, has been chosen as one of 26 researchers highlighted as leaders of the future.

The researchers, from all over the globe, will attend the 252nd ACS National Meeting and Exposition in August. There they will have a chance to "build upon their careers and help shape the future of research information".

More Information

• The full list of winners on the CAS website

Dr Marc Reid, from the Lloyd-Jones group, has been awarded an RSC Young Researcher Mobility Grant to initiate some collaborative research programmes in 2017.

The grant will allow Marc to engage in collaborative projects with Prof. Guy Lloyd-Jones and Dr Andrew Leach from Liverpool John Moores University.

Congratulations to Nicholas Dominelli Whiteley and Dr James Cooper, both from the Cockroft group, for respectively winning the Nature Chemistry and ACS Central Science poster prizes at the 5th International Conference on Molecular Sensors and Molecular Logic Gates held last week in Bath.