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June 2016 – Woo wins the inaugural Canadian Society for Chemistry Tom Zielger Award
Woo was awarded the first every Tom Ziegler Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry. The award, sponsored by Scientific Computing & Modelling NV, is presented to a scientist residing in Canada who has made a distinguished contribution to computational or theoretical chemistry while working in Canada. Woo’s Award talk was titled “A Computational Chemist’s Curious Course from Catalysis to Carbon Capture”.
July 2015 – Congratulations to Peter for Successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis – Off to Berkeley
Congratulations to Peter Boyd for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis “Computational High Throughput Screening of Metal Organic Frameworks for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Applications”. Peter is off to UC Berkeley to work with Berend Smit.
June 2015 – The 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition Opens in Ottawa
June 13-17. The 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition was successfully held in Ottawa, with the University of Ottawa Hosting. Woo was the scientific program chair for the conference. There were over 2100 registrants, 1350 oral presentations, 800+ poster presentations and presenters from 38 different countries.
May 2015 – Hana Dureckova and Chris Demone join the group as M.Sc. candidates.
Hana Dureckova and Chris Demone join the group as M.Sc. candidates beginning in September 2015
April 2015 – Hana wins the department’s best undergraduate thesis award!
Congratulations to Hana for winning the department of Chemistry’s best undergraduate thesis award. She was also awarded the Hypercube Scholar award for the best thesis involving theoretical or computational chemistry.
Feb. 2015 – Congrats to Woo for finishing his 3 yr term on the NSERC Discovery Grants Evaluation Committee
Congrats to Woo for finishing his three year term on the NSERC Discovery Grants Evaluation Committee.
