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2010
Departmental News
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Congratulations to Rob Dumont!
Rob Dumont wins the 2010 Department of Chemistry Staff Appreication Award at the annual Departmental Potluck for his outstanding contribution to the department.
November 2010 Victor Snieckus, 2010 Laureate of the Republic of Lithuania
November 2010 Dr. Gang Wu of the Department of Chemistry and his colleagues discover new method for studying molecules
Dr. Wu and his colleagues were
recently featured as a cover article in
Angewandte Chemie, one of the world's leading
chemistry journals. Their discovery will help in the
study of proteins, DNA, RNA and other molecules
structures as they have discovered the method for
studying oxygen in large molecular systems.
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September 2010 Dr. Shirley Tilghman returns to the Department of Chemistry
Dr. Shirley Tilghman, President of Princeton University, was the after-dinner speaker at the annual Queen's Innovation Council dinner Thursday September 30th. Dr. Tilghman is an alumni of the Department of Chemistry (B.Sc.H, 1968) and spoke fondly of her research and learning experiences in the department.
Dr. Victor Snieckus has been recognized as the 2010 Laureate of the Republic of Lithuania in the field of Physical, Biomedical, and Technological Sciences
Dr. Jean-Michel Nunzi's discovery could impact how the body receives medicine
Dr. Jean-Michel Nunzi and his group has determined
that "molecular cooperation " is what allows the
molecules to move and shift. The findings may one
day be used to facilitate medicinal drug
distribution by allowing doctors to control the time
and rate at which drugs are delivered into the body.
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University. Dr. Philip Jessop
receives the 2010 Queen's Prize for Excellence in
Research Congratulations to Philip Jessop on receiving the Queen's Prize for Excellence in Research, the highest honour given by Queen's University to recognize the research excellence of its faculty.
The Volume 1, Number 1 of Electrocatalysis is out both in its electronic and paper forms. Electrocatalysis is led by Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz as its Editor-in-Chief. Electrocatalysis is cross-disciplinary in nature, and attracts the interest of chemists, physicists, biochemists, surface and materials scientists, and engineers. Electrocatalysis is the only international journal solely dedicated to fundamental and applied aspects of chemical reactions taking place at the electrode and driven through the application of an electrical field.
GreenCentre Canada grand opening Thursday August 19th, 2010
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Dr. Philip Jessop was chair of the
3rd International Conference on Green Chemistry
The 3rd
International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry
was held in Ottawa on August 15-18th. Prof. Jessop
was the chair of the conference. There were over
320 delegates and presentations from 34 countries,
including several presentations from representatives
of the Department of Chemistry.
Dr. Cathy Crudden is awarded the
2011 Canadian Catalysis Lectureship Award (CCLA)
Cathy Crudden is the
recipient of the 2011 Canadian Catalysis Lectureship
Award (CCLA). The CCLA provides funding to present
lecutres at 4-6 locations across Canada, with the
tour to be completed within 12 months of receiving
notice of the award.
Dr. David Zechel is awarded
$35,000 from GreenCentre Canada
David Zechel has
received $35,000 from GreenCentre Canada to create
halogen containing drug-like compounds (also know as
organohalogens) by harnessing naturally occurring
enzymes.
Dr. Hugh Horton has been appointed
Associate Dean (Studies)
Dr. Cathy Crudden is awarded
$120,000 through the Federal Discovery Accelerator
Supplements program
Cathy Crudden is one
of five Queen’s researchers receiving $120,000 over
three years through the Federal Discovery
Accelerator Supplements (DAS) program to quicken the
pace of the professors’ progress and maximize the
impact of their work. Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz is Awarded Research Grant from Nissan Motor Company
Prof. Bill Newstead is awarded The Frank Knox Award and the Applied Science Teaching Learning Award
The other
award is the Applied Science Teaching and Learning
Award, which recognizes individuals teaching first
year Applied Science courses who contribute most to
establishing a good teaching and learning
environment in the classroom. This is the fifth time
Bill has received this award ! Queen's faculty led by Prof. Cathleen Crudden awarded a NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) grant worth $1.59M over six years.
Dr. Philip Jessop is awarded a Killam Research
Fellowship Philip Jessop is among eight 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. Click here for further information
Dr. Stan Brown is awarded the 2010 CIC Catalysis
Award
2010 CIC Catalysis Award has been awarded to Stan Brown. The award is presented every two years at the Canadian Symposium on Catalysis, which takes place in Banff this year on May 9-12, to an individual who has made a distinguished contribution to the field of catalysis.
Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz, Professor of Chemistry,
joins a research center directed by the 2007 Nobel
Prize Laureate in Chemistry Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz, Professor of Chemistry, has been invited to become a member of the newly formed Ertl Center for Electrochemistry and Catalysis located in Gwangju, South Korea, and directed by Prof. Gerhardt Ertl, the 2007 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry. In the Director’s Message, Prof. Ertl says that “At the beginning of the 21st century our world is facing serious problems with regards to environment, climate, energy conversion, raw materials and food. All these global problems are seeking scientific solutions, especially from chemistry, and in this connection electrochemistry and catalysis are of tremendous importance, in particular for energy conversion and pollution control. It is expected that the Ertl Center for Electrochemistry and Catalysis will play a significant role in these attempts, and I wish great success to all the people involved in this enterprise.” Dr. Jerkiewicz’s research will contribute to the understanding of fundamental steps involved in electrochemical generation of hydrogen, a means of energy storage, and hydrogen utilization in fuel cells. He will also address fundamental questions related to the origin of catalytic activity of platinum in fuel cells.
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Dr.
Gregory Jerkiewicz has been awarded a $50,000/year
research grant from the Nissan Motor Company to work
on a project entitled “Investigation of Catalyst
Degradation Mechanisms Under Simulated PEMFC
Automotive Conditions: Contribution Towards Enhanced
Durability, Extended Lifetime and Reduced Cost of
PEMFC Stacks”. The grant is the first step in a
long-term collaborative effort between the Nissan
Fuel Cell Laboratory and Dr. Jerkiewicz’s Surface
and Materials Electrochemistry, and Electrocatalysis
Laboratory. 
Bill
Newstead has recently received two important
teaching awards from Queen's. One is the Frank Knox
Award, presented annually by the Alma Mater Society
to two instructors who have demonstrated an
outstanding commitment to the education of students
at Queen's through their teaching excellence. The
Frank Knox Award is the highest honor given to
instructors by students at Queen's and this is the
second time Bill has received this award (a
distinction only one other Queen's faculty has
achieved over the past 20 years !)
