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October 2018. Summer’s first paper published in Chem. Comm.
October 2018. Summer who worked in the lab in the lab this past summer as a co-op student has her first paper under her belt. The paper, a collaborative effort by the Song lab at the University of Toronto and the Woo lab was published in Chemical Communications.
Kivi, C.E.; Gelfand, B.S.; Dureckova, H.; Ma, C.; Shimizu, G.K.H.; Woo, T.K.*; Song, D.* “3D Porous Metal–Organic Framework for Selective Adsorption of Methane over Dinitrogen under Ambient Pressure”, Chemical Communications, accepted. DOI 10.1039/C8CC07756H
September 2018. Chris Demone Successfully Defends his M.Sc. Thesis
September 2018. Chris Demone successfully defends his M.Sc. thesis titled “Partial Atomic Charge Methods for Simulating Porous Frameworks with a Net Charge and their Application to Gas Separations in Zeolites”. The committee has nominated his thesis for a thesis prize. Chris is already working at the Bank of Canada as an HPC specialist.
September 2018. Cat Joins the Group as a New M.Sc. Student
September 2018. Cat Huynh joins the group as a M.Sc. student. Cat did her B.Sc. with Alex Brown at the University of Alberta.
July 2018. Christina Joins the Group for the Summer
July 2018. Christina Bakowsky joins the group with a University of Ottawa Undergraduate Research Scholarships.
July 2018. The Woo Lab Escapes in Record Time
July 2018. The Woo lab completed an escape room without any hints from that only 5% of groups complete without hints. The group also does it in record time.
June 2018. Exchange Ph.D. Student Negar Joins the Group
June 2018. Negar Parvizi joins the group as an exchange Ph.D. student from Iran. She will be here until February 2019.
May 2018. Summer and Delaram Join the Group for the Summer
May 2018. Summer Ho and Delaram Irvanian join the group for the summer. Summer is a co-op student and Delaram is a volunteering in the lab.
May 2018. Shyama Joins the Group as a New PDF to Synthesize MOFs
May 2018. Shyamapada Nandi joins the group as a PDF (co-supervised with Professor Murugesu) to synthesize MOFs. Shyama comes from the group of Prof. Vaidhyanathan at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.
March 2018. Pegah Joins the Group as a New M.Sc. Student
March 2018. Pegah Tavangar joins the group as a M.Sc. student. Pegah, originally from Iran, received her B.Sc. from Queen’s University in Belfast.
February 2018. Hanna Successfully Defends her M.Sc. Thesis.
February 2018. Congratulations to Hanna Dureckova for successfully defending her thesis titled ” Robust Machine Learning QSPR Models for Recognizing High Performing MOFs for Pre-Combustion Carbon Capture and Using Molecular Simulation to Study Adsorption of Water and Gases in Novel MOFs”. Hanna is moving back to Japan to be closer to family but already has a job lined up in Tokyo.
