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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.
Nov. 2014 – Congrats to Bianca who Successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis: Off to Cambridge
Congratulations to Bianca who successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis. She is off to Cambridge UK to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry.
Sept. 2014 Congrats to Phil Bulsink on his MSc. Defense and new job at Natural Resources Canada
Congratulations to Phil Bulsink on his new job at Natural Resources Canada as a Fuels Chemist and successfully defending his MSc.
Aug. 2014 – Woo and Daff visit Brazil to Collaborate
Prof Woo and Tom Daff visit the University of Campinas (one of the top Universities in Brazil) near Sao Paulo to collaborate with the research groups of Munir Skaf and Douglas Galvao at the Institutes of Chemistry and Physics, respectively. The collaboration is a two year project funded by a CALDO-FAPSEP interaction grant.
Aug. 2014 – Teaching Assistant Awards – Congrats to Phil & Phil
Congratulations to both Phil De Luna and Phil Bulsink for being awarded the department’s Teaching Assistant Award.
July 2014. Summer Conferences – Montreal, Wisconsin, Colorado, Vancouver
Tom Daff, Mohammad, and Sean attended the 26th Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in Montreal. Woo attended the first Telluride meeting on “Metal-organic frameworks: Experiments and Simulations” . (more…)
July 1, 2014 – Congratulations to Peter Boyd on the birth of their 2nd child
June 2014 – Group Hot Wing Eating Contest
Congratulations to Sean for winning the group hot wing eating contest at Wild Wings. He ate the “Manager’s Special” and lived to tell about it. This wing is so hot, you have to sign a waiver before they let you eat it.
