Fern McSorley (Zechel Group) has discovered a powerful oxidizing reaction

Philip Jessop awarded the 2012 Canadian Green Chemistry & Engineering Award

The Chemical Institute of Canada has selected Dr. Jessop as the 2012 winner of the Canadian Green Chemistry & Engineering Award.  The award will be presented at the CSChE Conference in October.[posted May 9, 2012]

Dr. H.F. (Gus) Shurvell has been reappointed for a further five years to the adjunct academic staff of the Department of Art as an adjunct emeritus professor.

Dr. Shurvell is a retired Queen’s chemistry professor. He contributes to the Art Conservation program by giving a series of lectures on spectroscopy in ARTC808, and performing analysis on materials from conservation projects using a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer and an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyser. Gus also helps students with chemical, material, and logistical problems associated with their research projects.[posted May 9, 2012]

Yingli Rao is the recipient of the 2012 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

Congratulation to Yingli Rao from Dr. Suning Wang group for winning the prestigious 2012 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.[posted April 30, 2012]

Bill Newstead is the recipient of the Engineering and Applied Science First Year Instructor Teaching Award (Winter Term)
 

Congratulations to Bill Newstead on being selected by this year’s Engineering Class of 2015 as the recipient of the Engineering and Applied Science First Year Instructor Teaching Award (Winter Term). The award is given each year to the instructors of first year Engineering and Applied Science courses who, in the opinion of the students, contributed most to creating a good teaching and learning environment in the classroom.[posted Apr. 26, 2012]

Science Rendezvous Saturday May 12th from 10 am to 3 pm in Grant Hall

More than a dozen graduate students from the Chemistry Department will be participating in Science Rendezvous, a science event for the public of all ages, in Grant Hall on Saturday, May 12th from 10 am to 3 pm.  There will be hands-on experiments for children and two chemistry shows (11 am and 1 pm).  John Gerretsen, MPP and Attorney General of Ontario, will open the second show.  Dr. Jessop provided training, Tom Hunter gave assistance, and the department gave financial support. [posted Apr. 26, 2012]  

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Oleschuk Group research is featured as a cover article in the RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry
 

Yueqiao Fu, Graham Gibson and Richard Oleschuk have developed an approach for the fabrication of polymer microstructures with high aspect ratio and low polydispersity using photonic fibres as templates. Such structures include tubes, fibres/wires, and other extended linear forms. Small-scale, one-dimensional structures are of great interest for their applicability in fields as diverse as medicine, catalysis, microelectronics and chemical analysis.[posted Apr. 5, 2012]


 

Congratulations to Michael Dalziel, who won Second Prize in the Organic/Organometallic Chemistry category at the Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC) on March 24, held at the University of Guelph. Michael received the Prize for his presentation "Dancing Directed Metalation Groups: Regioselective Functionalization of Azine or Azole in 7-Azaindole" on research carried out in the Snieckus laboratories.[posted Apr. 4, 2012]

On Monday March 26th, 2012 a filming crew was on the 4th floor of Chernoff Hall from the HiFi HD cable channel. The cable channel was highlighting Paul Langlois from the Tragically Hip playing his own electric guitars and Dr. Peter Loock's Photonic Guitar.[posted Mar. 28, 2012]

Julia van Drunen of the Jerkiewicz lab wins the Herbert H. Uhlig Award

Julia van Drunen of the Surface and Materials Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis Laboratory directed by Dr. Jerkiewicz has been awarded the Herbert H. Uhlig Award.  The Award, established in 2007, is one of only five summer fellowships given by the Electrochemical Society to Ph.D. candidates across the world to support exceptional research in the field of electrochemistry. [posted Mar. 28, 2012]

Leanne Chen, a 4th year Chemistry Undergraduate student at Queen's, has won the best oral presentation award at The Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference for her undergraduate research. Leanne's research is supervised by Professor Suning Wang and Professor Nick Mosey. [posted Mar. 28, 2012]
 

GreenCentre Canada and Switchable Solutions are awarded $5.48 million to bring 'game changing' green solvent technology to market. The technology that formed the basis of this company was discovered by Philip Jessop, Department of Chemistry Queen's University.[posted Feb. 28, 2012]
 

Suning Wang is among seven outstanding Canadian researchers to be awarded a Killam Research Fellowship, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The Fellowship provides $70,000 a year for two years to each of the researchers.[posted Feb. 22, 2012]

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The Department of Chemistry at Queen’s is ranked in the Top 5 Canadian Chemistry Departments

The Department of Chemistry at Queen's, with its high quality research programs, excellent facilities and first class educational experience, maintains its top 5 ranking among Canadian chemistry departments in the 2011 QS World University Rankings in Chemistry. [posted Jan. 19, 2012]

Zac Hudson from the Wang Group wins 2012 CIC Inorganic Division Award

Zac Hudson from Wang group has won the 2012 Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) Inorganic Division Award for Graduate Work in Inorganic Chemistry. He will give an Award lecture at the 2012 CSC conference in Calgary.[posted Jan. 16, 2012]

$3.2 million investment in Switchable Solutions Inc.

Industry investors and venture capitalists have invested $3.2 million in Switchable Solutions Inc. The technology that formed the basis of this company was discovered by Philip Jessop, Department of Chemistry Queen's University.[posted Dec. 13, 2011]

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Photonic innovation will materialize “a society where individuals interact with each other”.

Jean-Michel Nunzi and 30 researchers representing the world of photonic polymers met at the 1st International Conference onAdvanced Photonic Polymers 2011 held in Yokohama this December. Unifying desire was to share experience from the great disaster of March 11, 2011 in order to find out how photonics polymers will contribute to Japan’s recovery.[posted Dec. 13, 2011]

2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Symposium for Richard Heck

Victor Snieckus presented a lecture in honour of Richard Heck at the University of Delaware on May 26^th, 2011. Among those honouring Professor Heck for his discovery of a reaction which is a household name in chemical laboratories and is used for the production of many medicinal agents, was Ei-ichi Negishi, co-Nobel Laureate with Heck and Akira Suzuki.  
Aside from first noting that Heck carried out research for several  months in his laboratories in 2005/06, Snieckus offered a laudatio by highlighting aspects of the Heck legacy in organic chemistry and the described current work in his laboratories aimed at discovery and development of synthetic organometallic chemistry related to the directed ortho metalation reaction which has had significant impact on commercial production of drugs and agrochemicals such as Celebrex^TM (anti-inflammatory) and Silthiofam^TM  (fungicide used worldwide for eradication of a fungus destroying grain crops).[posted Nov. 3, 2011]
 

Dr. Suning Wang's research has been awarded a $460,000 NSERC Strategic research grant

Suning Wang's research on phosphorescent materials for OLEDs has got a major boost from NSERC. She has been awarded a $460,000 NSERC Strategic research grant. Her group will carry out this research in collaboration with Professor Z. H. Lu at the Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Toronto[posted Oct. 24, 2011]

Applied Research and Commercialization Initiative  
The Applied Research and Commercialization Initiative is designed to bridge the gap between research and commercialization between Ontario’s post-secondary academic institutions and small- and medium-sized enterprises.

Through this initiative, Dr. Richard Oleschuk, his research team and AB SCIEX have partnered to develop a multi-nanoelectrospray interface based upon microstructured optical fibre technology (at right). AB/SCIEX is a global leader in the field of scientific instrumentation with its primary strength in mass spectrometry and its application to life science research. AB/Sciex recognizes the particular research strengths of Queen’s in the area of microfluidics. Advancements in this area promise to have particular application in life science research. More information is available at http://www.absciex.com/ [posted Oct. 20, 2011]
 

"Photonic guitar" developed in Loock 's Group to be on exhibit at the Canada Science and Technology Museum  

The “photonic guitar” developed in the Loock Group, will be on exhibit at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa from October 20^th, 2011 until April 2012. The guitar uses a fiber-optic vibration sensor as a “photonic pickup”. Dr. Peter Loock will give a short presentation to the Minister of Industry and the Minister of State (Science and Technology) at the opening ceremony. [posted Oct. 18, 2011]

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Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz is awarded the R. C. Jacobsen Award of the Canadian Section of the Electrochemical Society
 

Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz is the recipient of the R. C. Jacobsen Award of the Canadian Section, the Electrochemical Society.  The Award recognizes his valuable services to the Society, not only as a member of its Executive Committee for thirteen years, but also his leadership and initiatives that have allowed the Society to grow and prosper in Canada.  Dr. Jerkiewicz is the seventh recipient of the Award since its creation in 1986. [posted Oct. 18, 2011]