Dr. Gang Wu is the recipient of the 2021 Gerhard Herzberg Award from the Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (CSASS)
Dr. Gang Wu is the recipient of the 2021 Gerhard Herzberg Award from the Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (CSASS). This Award is given to a Canadian spectroscopist in recognition of distinguished scientific contributions to the field of spectroscopy, either fundamental or applied. Dr. Wu will give his award presentation entitled Listening to the Faintest Music from Molecules: 17O NMR Spectroscopic Studies of Organic and Biological Systems at 10:30 am on November 10th, 2021. To register for the free CSASS Award symposium, go to https://lnkd.in/g9kAJymP.
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The Department of Chemistry wishes to congratulate its fall graduates for 2021! This is a tremendous achievement and we celebrate your continued success. 
During the Summer of 2021, Larissa Zhong participated in the Student-in-Residence Program, funded by the Department of Chemistry and Experience Ventures. Ms. Zhong worked as a writer-in-residence with the 
We are delighted to announce Timothy Salomons placed 1st in the graduate student poster competition at the CCCE conference. Congratulations!
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) has awarded Cathy Crudden the highest value Discovery Grant in Canada this year. Dr. Crudden and her team will work to discover the implications of carbon-to-metal bonds by analyzing films 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. You can read more about this innovative research on the Queen’s Gazette.
Hannah Ramsay, PhD Candidate in the Stamplecoskie group, won the 2021 National Young Person's Lecture Competition, hosted by the Arthur B. McDonald Institute. Her victory has Hannah moving on to the global competition that will be held this fall in the UK. If you would like to view the competition it can be found on 
A multidisciplinary team of Queen’s researchers made up of Laurence Yang (Chemical Engineering), David Zechel (Chemistry), George diCenzo (Biology), and James McLellan (Chemical Engineering) received a $7.9 million grant from Genome Canada for a new project exploring a microbial platform for breaking down and valorizing waste plastic, which can then be repurposed to produce recycled products. The revolutionizing project has been featured in the 
We are pleased to announce that Morgan Lehtinen, PhD Student in the Liu Group, is the recipient of 2021 SGS Award in Leadership, Innovation, and Community Engagement! This award recognizes exceptional graduate students who are making a meaningful difference in the world while also demonstrating the highest standards of academic excellence. Congratulations!
Grad student, Matt Sanger and grad alumnus Kyle Boniface of the Jessop group are celebrating the publication of their work in Nature Chemistry in a joint paper with Walter Leitner and his team at RWTH in Germany. The paper describes a heterogeneous catalyst that switches its selectivity when CO2 is introduced or removed, even though CO2 is not involved in the catalyzed reaction.