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Departmental Newsletters Previous Newsletters 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 October 2011
Professor Hesp and two of his summer students were
invited to present their cutting edge research at
the
XIII Congreso
Nacional del Asfalto in Lima, Peru The Incas constructed roads more than 600 years ago that survive in relatively good shape today. Unfortunately, the same longevity is missing from modern roads in Peru and Canada alike. Peru is rapidly upgrading its infrastructure and faces many of the same challenges that Canadian user agencies experience (premature rutting and cracking due to temperature extremes). Professor Hesp and two of his summer students were invited to present their cutting edge research on pavement cracking at the XIII Congreso Nacional del Asfalto in Lima, Peru. Jennifer Erskine (second year Engineering Physics) presented in Spanish an Eight Year Performance Overview of a Northern Ontario Pavement Trial while George Warburton (second year Mechanical) spoke with the assistance of a translator about Double-Edge-Notched Tension Testing of Asphalt Cements. The above picture is Jennifer Erskine (left), Prof. Hesp (middle) and George Warburton (right) inspecting some local Peruvian roads. [posted Oct. 18, 2011]
Dr. Guojun Liu is
renewed as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair
Congratulations to Dr. Guojun Liu on the renewal of his Tier 1 Natural Sciences and Engineering Canada Research Chair in Materials in the Department of Chemistry. [posted Oct. 13, 2011] Click here for more information
Dr. Victor Snieckus is awarded the 2011 Queen's Prize for Excellence in Research
Congratulations to Victor on receiving the 2011 Queen's Prize for Excellence in Research, the highest honour given by Queen's University to recognize the research excellence of its faculty.[posted Oct. 13, 2011] Dr. Philip Jessop presents a lecture to MP's and Senators in Ottawa
Philip Jessop was invited to Ottawa to present a lecture on "Switching to Green Chemistry" to MP's and Senators. [posted Oct. 13, 2011]
Click here for more information from the Ottawa Citizen
September 2011 Tomohiro Seki is Awarded The Duncan and Urlla Carmichael Fellowship valued at $10,000.
Tomohiro Seki of the Crudden Group has been awarded The Duncan and Urlla Carmichael Fellowship valued at $10,000. The fellowship was estabilished from the estate of Urlla Eillene Carmichael and is awarded to a masters and doctoral students in any field who have first class standing.
Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz is Awarded a Second Research Grant from Nissan Motor Company
August 2011 Professor Cathy Crudden and her group are highlighted in Queen's University News Centre
Dr. Cathy Crudden along with Eric Keske and Dr. Olena Zenkina's research with modified medals could influence the production of air quality sensors. Click here for more information
Professor David Zechel and colleagues are featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.
David Zechel along with visiting professor Bjarne Hove-Jensen and Ph.D. student Fern R. McSorely will be featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. The group has characterized a protein complex which is involved in the catabolism of phosphonic acids. Click here for more information
July 2011 Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz discovers new process for colouring titanium
Gregory Jerkiewicz has discovered a new electrochemical method that is cost-effective to colour titanium. Click here for more information
Dr. Suning Wang Associate Editor for RSC Advances
Suning Wang has been appointed the Associate Editor dealing with inorganic and materials chemistry manuscripts. Click here for more information
June 2011 Dr. Philip Jessop's green solvent technology to be used by Switchable Solutions Inc.
A new company based in Mississauga, Switchable Solutions Inc. will use the "green" technology discovered by Philip Jessop of the Department of Chemistry. Click here for more information from Queen's News Centre Click here for more information from the National Post Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz is featured in Queen's News Centre
Gregory Jerkiewicz and his research team have found answers to questions about platinum's catalytic properties. Click here for more information
Dr. Stephen Brown will be highlighted at the American Water Works Association's Annual Conference
Click here for more information
March 2011
Dr. Diane Beauchemin is highlighted at the 2011
Pittcon Tradeshow in Atlanta, Georgia
Click here to view the interview
Dr. Guojun Liu is the 2011 recipient of the Captain
Alfred E. Hunt Memorial Award Guojun's
award is featured in the Queen's NewsCentre: Nanoparticles will reduce car engine wear and tear, on Popular Science website. http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-03/new-nanolube-could-cut-engine-friction-more-half
February 2011
Dr. Cathy Crudden is awarded
the 2011 Clara Benson Award
Dr. Philip Jessop to be highlighted on Discovery Channel
Philip Jessop will be highlighted on Discovery Channel's Daily Planet this Thursday Feb. 10. The science program will demonstrate how Dr. Jessop's "switchable" solvents work. The show airs from 7-8 pm and again at 11 pm on the Discovery Channel.
Click here for more information Dr. Suning Wang has developed new oxygen sensor technology
Dr. Suning Wang has received $35,000 to test "Smart” materials with the potential to detect the presence of oxygen in packages containing oxygen-sensitive products, and to block ultraviolet light through smart windows.
Click here for more information
Zach Hudson is awarded the 2011 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship
Congratulation to Zac Hudson from the Wang Group, he was awarded the 2011 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Award of the International Center for diffraction data.
January 2011 Dr. Peter Loock's "Photonic Guitar" is highlighted by the Discovery Channel 
Peter Loock, Bithun Sarkar (Eng. Chem. 2011) and
Tragically Hip guitarist Paul Langlois
demonstrate the “Photonic Guitar” in a 5 min clip
shown by the Discovery Channel. Paul plays a
custom-built acoustic guitar made by Dagmar
Guitars (luthier: Pete Swanson), The “Photonic
Guitar” is interrogated with laser light and is
equipped with 7 fiber-optic sensors which act as
pick-ups for the vibrations of the guitar body.
Dr. Gang Wu's work highlighted as "News of the Week" in C&EN
Dr. Wu and his team were profiled in an article published in the latest issue of the Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN, January 3, 2011) for their groundbreaking work on 17O NMR spectroscopy of protein complexes.
For details, see: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/89/i01/8901notw4.html
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Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz has been awarded a
$75,000/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 second step
in a long-term collaborative effort between the
Nissan Fuel Cell Laboratory and Dr. Jerkiewicz’s
Surface and Materials Electrochemistry, and
Electrocatalysis Laboratory. 
A
system to detect microbes such as E. coli in water
developed by Dr. Stephen Brown and his team is being
highlighted at the American Water Works
Association's Annual Conference and Exposition June
12-16 in Washington, D.C.
Dr.
Beauchemin's interview was conducted by Meg Evans,
the Managing Editor of LCGC & Spectroscopy
Magazines. The interview focused on Dr. Beauchemin's
research on simple means to increase the robustness
of inductively coupled plasma spectrometries (i.e.
both optical emission spectrometry and mass
spectrometry) to enable a simple external
calibration (with standard solutions) for the
accurate analysis of a variety of sample types
(food, soil, natural waters, sediments, etc.).
Time-consuming calibration strategies (such as
standard addition or isotope dilution) are then
unnecessary.
