Chemistry Family 2018
The Department of Chemistry's Mission Statement
Chernoff Hall - Home of the Department of Chemistry
Chernoff Hall lounge area
Lecture taking place in Chernoff
Equipment in the Mass Spectrometry Lab
Equipment in the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Lab
Equipment in the Surface Analysis Lab
Equipment in the X-ray Crystallography Lab
Department Spotlight
Dr. Crudden won the 2019 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dr. Cathleen Crudden on winning the 2019 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award! This national ACS award is given “to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry.” The recognition of Cathy’s contributions is especially remarkable because non-Americans typically don’t receive this award. Another recent exception was Andrew Evans winning this award in 2017 as one of the first Canadians in the 32-year history of the award. Also, in 2001 Victor Snieckus was the second Canadian Arthur C. Cope Scholar (after Keith Ingold, 1992).
Seminar Series
Friday, September 28, 2018
11:30 a.m.
Chernoff Hall, Room 117
Jennifer Love
University of British Columbia
Developing catalytic reactions one step at a time
Friday, October 5, 2018
11:30 a.m.
Chernoff Hall, Room 117
Angela Lyon
Office of Partnerships & Innovation
Intro to Intellectual Property (IP)
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Chernoff Hall, Room 117
Fumitoshi Shibahara
Gifu University
News & Events
Congratulations to Derek Esau, PhD student in the Jerkiewicz Group
Congratulations to Derek Esau of the Jerkiewicz Research Group on winning the Second Prize in the Best Poster Presentation Competition at the International Symposium on Electrocatalysis 2018 in Szczyrk, Poland. Derek deliver a presentation entitled “Influence of Scan Rate and Temperature Variation on Rhodium Spherical Single Crystal Electrodes in Aqueous Acidic Media”.
Congratulations to Morgan Lehtinen on receiving the Best Presentation/Paper at the 256th ACS Conference
Morgan Lehtinen, PhD Student in the Liu Group, was awarded the “Best Presentation/Paper” in the Colloidal and Interfacial Science in Separation Mechanisms Division presented by ACS publication’s Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research at the 256th American Chemical Society Conference in Boston, MA. Congratulations!
Congratulation to PhD Student, Soren Mellerup for being awarded the Banting PDF!
Congratulation to PhD Student, Soren Mellerup for being awarded the Banting PDF! The fellowship will be held at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in the working group of Prof. Dr. Holger Braunschweig. The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program, funded by the Government of Canada, provides funding to the best postdoctoral applicants who will positively contribute to the country's economic, social and research-based growth. Introducing Dr. Peng Wang to the Department of Chemistry
We would like to welcome Dr. Peng Wang who joined the Department as an Assistant Professor. After the completion of his Ph.D. work, Dr. Wang spent his time as a postdoctoral researcher investigating materials for detecting and identifying radioactive sources. Before starting at Queen’s University, Dr. Wang held a scientist position in Canadian semiconductor industry. Dr. Wang will be focusing his area of teaching around inorganic material chemistry, while the overarching theme of my research is the electrical and optical properties of novel crystalline compounds. Introducing Dr. Chantelle J. Capicciotti, Queen’s National Scholar in Precision Molecular Medicine
We would like to welcome Dr. Chantelle J. Capicciotti to the Department. Dr. Capicciotti joins the Departments of Chemistry, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences and Surgery in July 2018 as a Queen’s National Scholar in Precision Molecular Medicine. Her areas of teaching are in organic chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical biology with specialization in carbohydrate chemistry and glycobiology. Her research interests are in the field of glycobiology focusing on understanding how glycans/glycoproteins interact with proteins on a cellular level to elicit biological responses, as well as on developing glycan-based approaches for biomarker identification, disease diagnosis, imaging techniques, and cell-based therapies.Introducing Dr. Zhe She to the Department of Chemistry
We would like to welcome Assistant Professor, Dr. Zhe She to the Department of Chemistry. Dr. She carried out his postdoctoral research work at the University of Toronto, where he was a research associate and Calian contractor jointly with Royal Military College of Canada, in developing new portable analytical tools for pathogen detection in water samples. The She Lab will focus on developing new analytical methods for environmental monitoring and clinical diagnostics, and providing cross-disciplinary teaching opportunities for students and postdoctoral fellows to study nanotechnology, biosensors, chemistry and instrumentations.
Research Spotlight
Queen’s University received two new NSERC CREATE grants, each for $1.65M
On July 16th the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, announced that Queen’s University received two new NSERC CREATE grants, each for $1.65M. The CREATE program will provide teams led by Queen’s associate professors Stephen Brown (Chemistry) and James Fraser (Physics) with support for the training of graduate and undergraduate students through the development of two innovative training programs, (1) in water and watershed sustainability, and (2) in materials for photonics and sensing, respectively. In total, 7 research chemistry groups (Brown, Crudden, Loock, Nunzi, Oleschuk, Stamplecoskie, and Wang) are benefitting directly from this support.