{"id":727,"date":"2014-05-06T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?page_id=727"},"modified":"2014-07-01T22:41:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T02:41:44","slug":"news-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?page_id=727","title":{"rendered":"News Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\">\u00a0Group News<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"color: #2c2b2b;\">\n<li><b>July 2014\u00a0<\/b>&#8211; \u00a0Congratulations to postdoc Dr. Michael Fernandez Llamosa was awarded a fellowship to work in Melbourne Australia for applying cheminformatics to nanoparticles. Best of luck Michael!<br \/>\nWelcome to Dr. Zygmunt Fliask who is a visiting professor from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">University of Opole in Poland.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>June 2014<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Congratulations to Sean and Phil for winning Honourable Mention Poster Prizes at the Transformational Technologies for Molecular Simulation (TTMS) at the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Madison.<br \/>\nCongratulations to Phil for winning top poster prize at the Carbon Management Canada (CMC) Conference in Banff.<br \/>\nBianca, Phil and Sean presented posters at the\u00a0Transformational Technologies for Molecular Simulation (TTMS) at the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Madison.<\/li>\n<li>Mo, Phil and Sean presented posters at the Carbon Management Canada (CMC) Conference in Banff.<\/li>\n<li>Bianca and Sean presented psoters at the Canadian Society of Chemistry (CSC) Conference in Vancouver.<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 2014 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0<strong>Dr. Carlos Campana<\/strong>\u00a0on the arrival of his second\u00a0girl, Evelyn.<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 2014 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Ph.D student\u00a0<strong>Peter Boyd<\/strong>\u00a0presented Woo Lab work at the 247th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting at Dallas Texas March 16th \u2013 20th.<br \/>\nCongratulations to Ph.D student\u00a0<b>Evans Monyoncho<\/b>\u00a0who was awarded the NSERC PGS-D scholarship!<\/li>\n<li><b>March 2014 &#8211;\u00a0<\/b>Our hypothetical database is now available at\u00a0<a title=\"MOFfinger\" href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/moffinger\/\">titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/MOFfinger<\/a>. MOFfinger is a new cheminformatic tool for Metal Organic Frameworks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>February 2014<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Congratulations to Ph.D student\u00a0Peter Boyd\u00a0who will be expecting a new baby boy.<br \/>\nCongratulations to\u00a0Dr. Carlos Campana\u00a0who will be expecting a new baby girl.<br \/>\nMaster\u2019s student\u00a0Bianca Provost\u00a0will be heading to the Monash University in Australia this month to work with Dr. Alan Chaffee with funding from the Carbon Management Canada (CMC) International subsidy.<br \/>\nCongratulations to\u00a0Sean Collins\u00a0for his transfer into the Ph.D program, Sean has earned an Entrance Scholarship and Dean\u2019s Scholarship for his efforts.<br \/>\nMaster\u2019s student\u00a0Jason Lo\u00a0recently completed a half marathon called the Hypothermic in freezing temperatures.<br \/>\nUndergraduate student\u00a0Mostagh Aljahawari\u00a0has returned to the Woo lab under the Undergraduate Research OPportunity (UROP) program.<\/li>\n<li><strong>November 2013\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Woo lab welcomes back Dr. Carlos Campana<br \/>\nWoo lab work presented at the Inorganic Discussion Weekend (IDW) conference by Dr. Tom Daff and Bianca Provost.\u00a0Congratulations to Phil De Luna for being awarded the Tito Scaiano Scholarship<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb. 2013 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to Tom Baker, Woo and the CCRI for the successful $11 million CFI Leading Edge fund application. This will really enhance the biocatalysis capabilities of the CCRI. \u00a0It will also significantly enhance our high performance computing facilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sept. 2012\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Congratulations to Woo for being named to NSERC\u2019s Discovery Grants Evaluation Group.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nov. 2011\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Woo starts term as Associate Director of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalysis.uottawa.ca\/welcome.html\">Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nov. 2011\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Our papers\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong>Phosphonate monoesters as carboxylate-like linkers for metal organic frameworks\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0\u201d<\/strong>Competition and cooperativity in CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0sorption by amine functionalized metal organic frameworks\u201d\u00a0with George Shimizu\u2019s group\u00a0have been accepted in JACS and ACIE, respectively.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oct.\u00a0 2011\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Our group\u2019s pumpkin this year is a MOF pumpkin capturing CO<sub>2<\/sub>!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oct. 24<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 2011\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Congratulations to Carlos and Jessica on the arrival of their daughter Sofia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sept.\u00a0 2011\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Congratulations to Arif who won best poster presentation prize at the Jacques Cartier Colloquium on 21st Century Catalysis Science and\u00a0Applications .<\/li>\n<li><strong>August 2011\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Saeid finishes his sabbatical in the Woo lab and returns to Iran<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>August 2011\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations on Arif for successfully defending his Master\u2019s thesis \u201cFirst Principles and Genetic Algorithm Studies of Lanthanide Metal Oxides for Optimal Fuel Cell Electrolyte Design.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>August 2011\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Mike has his first paper accepted \u2013 \u201cMolecular dynamics free energy calculations for CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0capture in structure I clathrate hydrates in the presence of SO<sub>2<\/sub>, CH<sub>4<\/sub>, N<sub>2<\/sub>, and H<sub>2<\/sub>S impurities\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">March 2011\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; Congratulations to George Shimizu (University of Calgary) and Woo who were awarded $940000 (including industry cash) over three years from Carbon Management Canada for their proposal \u201cDesigning easy-release CO<\/span><sub style=\"color: #000000;\">2<\/sub><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0capture at the Molecular Level\u201d.\u00a0 The two groups will look to design new carbon dioxide capture materials for reducing green house gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Feb. 2011\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; Congratulations to Chris Rowley who has accepted a Faculty position at Memorial University.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Nov. 2010<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Our work on the computer modeling of CO<\/span><sub style=\"color: #000000;\">2<\/sub><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0capture in nanoporous materials, was published in the journal\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1772af;\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121119151209\/http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/330\/6004\/650.short\">Science<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. The work with collaborators at the University of Calgary was also featured on CBC news.\u00a0 The work was also a \u2018News of the Week\u2019 feature on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1772af;\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121119151209\/http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/cen\/news\/88\/i44\/8844notw9.html\">Chemical &amp; Engineering News<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">July 2010<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Congratulations to Arif who won the Best Student oral Presentation Prize at this year\u2019s Fuel Cell colloquium on Computational Methods for Reactions and Interactions at Solid Surfaces.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">June 2010<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0-Congratulations to Woo who was named associate editor the the Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical.\u00a0 Tom will handle the theoretical heterogeneous catalysis portfolio.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Nov. 2009<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 &#8211; Congratulations to Chris who was named the Chemistry Department\u2019s TA of the year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Sep. 2009<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Tom returns from giving a plenary lecture at NANOCHINA 2009 conference in Beijing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">July 2009<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Tom begins term as Assistant Chair of the Chemistry Department.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">July 2009<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Peter Boyd makes a triumphant return from a semester in Scotland as part of the Department\u2019s exchange program.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">May 2009 <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; Congratulations to Andrew who won top prize ($200) for the for the Physical-Theoretical-Computational division in the undergraduate poster competition at this year\u2019s CSC meeting in Hamilton.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>April 2009<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Congratulations to Chris Rowley for being awarded a prestigious NSERC Post-doctoral fellowship, Peter Boyd, Andrew Sirjoosingh for being awarded NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships, and Nick Trefiak for being awarded an NSERC PGS scholarship. Also, Peter Dornan was awarded the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (that\u2019s $50K\/yr!)<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">March 2009<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Tom returns from giving the ACEnet Computational Chemistry Institute\u2019s Lecture series tour.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Jan 2009 <\/strong>&#8211;<strong style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Anguang Hu, started his new job as a senior research scientist at Defense Canada R&amp;D.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Dec 2008<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; The Woo lab claims 1st and 2nd prize in the CCRI\u2019s logo design contest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>June 2008<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1772af;\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121119151209\/http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/images\/2008%20BBQ%20poster.jpg\">Check out our p<\/a><a style=\"color: #1772af;\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121119151209\/http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/images\/2008%20BBQ%20poster.jpg\">oster that Tianyi drew for the Chemistry BBQ<\/a>.\u00a0 The handsome fellow in the middle is a WOOkiee<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">June 2008<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Tom returns from the HPCS scientific computing conference in Quebec City where he gave an invited talk<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">June 2008 <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Woo has joined the editorial board of the Journal of Molecular Catalysis A<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">May 2008<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 &#8211; Tom returns from Winnipeg where he gave the Plenary Lecture at the 22nd Annual Western Canadian Undergraduate Conference<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">May 2008<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Congratulations to Chris who won the top oral presentation prize at this year\u2019s Ottawa-Carleton Chemistry Institute\u2019s graduate research day<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">May 2008<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Congratulations to Nick and Stephanie Mosey who are expecting their first child in the fall<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">May 2008<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Tom returns from Winnipeg where he gave the Plenary Lecture at the 22nd Annual Western Canadian Undergraduate Conference.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Oct. 2007<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Congratulations to Chris who won one of the 4 top oral presentation prizes at this year\u2019s IDW conference in Toronto.\u00a0 He also won a poster prize.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Sept. 2007<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Woo has joined the editorial advisory board of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry.\u00a0 Woo has been asked to serve as a topical program advisor for the \u201cPhysical, Theoretical, and Computational\u201d area for the 2010 Pacifichem Congress.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Aug. 2007<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Congratulations to Nick Mosey who has accepted a Faculty position in the Chemistry Department at Queen\u2019s University in Kingston Ontario.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">July 2007<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Congratulations to David Gerbasi who has accepted a faculty position at the Canadian Coast Guard College in Sydney, NS.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">July 2007<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Thanks to a shared grant headed by Professor David Bryce, we have added seven 8 CPU nodes to our group\u2019s computer cluster<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>June 2007<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Congratulations to Nick who was awarded this year\u2019s Howard Alper postdoctoral prize from NSERC and NSERC\u2019s Doctoral prize.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Howard Alper Postdoctoral Prize is awarded to the top Canadian postdoctoral student in the natural sciences or engineering.<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>NSERC Doctoral Prizes are awarded to up to four students completing their doctoral degrees at Canadian universities. Two\u00a0awards are available in each of two\u00a0categories: natural sciences, and engineering and computer sciences.<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1772af;\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121119151209\/http:\/\/www.nserc.gc.ca\/news\/2007\/p070612_Mosey.htm\">more from NSERC<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">June 2007<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Congratulations to Chris whose oral presentation won first prize in the Physical\/Theoretical division at the CSC national meeting in Winnipeg.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">May 2007<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 &#8211; Congratulations to Chris who won first prize in the poster competition at the Ottawa-Carleton Chemistry Institute research day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">May 2007<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 &#8211; Congratulations to Peter Dornan who was awarded the Hypercube Scholars award from our department for the best Honour\u2019s thesis with a computational chemistry component in it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">January 2007<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8211; Congratulations to Peter who is doing his undergraduate thesis in the group for winning the pot in our first group POKER game!\u00a0 With the $15 he won he can now afford to buy the all beef hot dogs for the rest of the semester.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Oct. 31, 2006.<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;<strong style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Woo group tied for first place in this year\u2019s departmental Pumpkin Carving Contest. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">August 2006<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0 The Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation (CCRI) has been short listed for the Canada Foundation for Innovation $45million International Joint Venture Grant.\u00a0 We are now one of only three groups in the running for this huge award.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">June 2006<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 We have power!.\u00a0 With renovations complete, our group\u2019s new 168 CPU AMD Opteron cluster with Infiniband hi-speed interconnects is now operational.\u00a0 With lots of hard work from Chris, we have installed a diskless bootup of Fedora Core 5 on all of the compute nodes.\u00a0 The system is working beautifully.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">June 2006<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 Congratulations to Nick and Duangporn who successfully defended their Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses, respectively.\u00a0 Nick is off to Princeton to work with Emily Carter and Duangporn is off to do a Ph.D. work at Purdue University.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>March<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a02006.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nick for being awarded an NSERC PDF scholarship and both Chris and James being awarded NSERC PGS-Doctoral scholarships!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>February<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a02006.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What are the odds?\u00a0 Nick Mosey and David Gerbasi found out that they will be related by marriage after a wedding this summer.\u00a0 They are second cousins-in law or something like that!!!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>J<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>anuary\u00a02006.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Zongxian who has started a Full Professorship position at the Department of Physics at Henan Normal University in China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>January<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a02006.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Congratulations to Duanporn who was awarded a Christian Sivertz Scholarship ($1500) from the University of Western Ontario Chemistry Department awarded to the top students in physical chemistry based on their first year of graduate work.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>August<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a02005.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Chris Rowley for being awarded an HPCVL graduate scholarship!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>July<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a02005.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chris Rowley was awarded a $3000 \u201cStrategic Areas of Development\u201d Graduate award from the University of Ottawa.\u00a0 Congrats!!!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>July<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a02005.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 Thanks to three graduate students and a U-Haul, the Woo group has successfully moved from the University of Western Ontario to the University of Ottawa,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1772af;\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121119151209\/http:\/\/www.chem.uottawa.ca\/welcome.html\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Department of Chemistry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1772af;\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121119151209\/http:\/\/www.science.uottawa.ca\/ccri\/ccri.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0 The road stories will be posted shortly<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">May 2005.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 The Woo group will be relocating to Canada\u2019s capital Ottawa in July 2005.\u00a0\u00a0 We will be joining the University of\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1772af;\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121119151209\/http:\/\/www.chem.uottawa.ca\/welcome.html\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ottawa, Department of Chemistry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1772af;\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121119151209\/http:\/\/www.science.uottawa.ca\/ccri\/ccri.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0 Any interested graduate students should now apply to the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1772af;\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121119151209\/http:\/\/www.chemistry.uottawa.ca\/students\/prospective_grad.html\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">University of Ottawa graduate program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>March<\/b><\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a02005<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0\u00a0Congratulations to Chris Rowley on being awarded an NSERC PGS Master&#8217;s scholarship.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>February 2005<\/b>\u00a0 After three years of service, Woo is pleased to announce that Mel Usselman is taking over as the department&#8217;s Chair of Graduate Admissions.<br \/>\nCongratulations to Anguang on his new job as senior scientist at Atomistix.\u00a0 Anguang will be heading their new North American Branch based in Montreal.\u00a0 BIG bucks for Anguang and lunch on him for us!<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jan 2005<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0 Our paper &#8220;Molecular Mechanism for the Functionality of Lubricant Additives&#8221; by Mosey, Mueser, Woo has been accepted for publication in Science.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>October 2004\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Congratulations to Anguang and his family who just became permanent resident&#8217;s of Canada.<\/li>\n<li><b>August 2004\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Selay started medical school at the University of Ottawa and Chris Granger started dental school here at UWO.\u00a0 Congratulations to both.<br \/>\nCongratulations to Kari Ann for successfully defending her 4th year thesis project and on her new house and new job at the school of Medicine and dentistry at UWO.\u00a0 Kari Ann will also be getting married in October 2005.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><b>July 2004\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Tom Woo who was one of ten PI&#8217;s on the successful multi-institutional SHARCnet 2 CFI grant.\u00a0 SHARCnet 2 was fully funded at over $49 million dollars ($20 million matching funds from the Ontario Innovation Trust).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090906080100\/http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/ROCIT\/SHARCNET_$50M_expansion.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">click here for the official press release (PDF)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>June 2004\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Nick Mosey won 1st place Oral presentation and 1st place Poster presentation prizes for the Physical and Theoretical Division,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">87th Canadian Society for Chemistry National Conference and Exhibition<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">. London, Ontario, May 29-June 1, 2004.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>May<\/b><\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0200<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>4.\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Congratulations to Anna on her new job.\u00a0 She is now an engineer trainee at a big Swedish Utility group.\u00a0\u00a0 They had 3000 applicants for 6 positions!<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\">Best wishes to the newly wed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">s\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Nick and Stephanie Mosey who were married on May 22.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll be honeymooning in Mexico &#8211; Tequila shooters at the next group meeting.<br \/>\n<\/span>Congratulations to Chris Rowely on being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"font-size: small;\">April 200<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>4 <\/b>&#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Congratulations to Chris Granger on his NSERC USRA award.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>March<\/b><\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0200<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>4 <\/b>&#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Congratulations to Nick Mosey who was awarded the\u00a0Robert and Ruth Lumsden Graduate Fellowship<br \/>\nGreat News!\u00a0 Nick Mosey was awarded\u00a0a Canada Graduate Scholarship (Ph.D.) &#8211; that&#8217;s $35K per year and lunch for the group<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">August 2003 &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Congratulations to Kari Ann on her engagement.\u00a0 Yes, she got the big question and ring popped on her<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">March 2003 &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Congratulations to Steve on his new job with the Government of Canada in Ottawa.<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">December 2002 \u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span>We have added another 40 Pentium 4 2.5 GHz nodes with switched gigabit ethernet to our computing facility, ROCIT.\u00a0 Gordon is now feeling very well endowed.<br \/>\nCongratulations to Gordon, our former systems administrator, for getting a full time position with teletech.\u00a0 Gordon is still working part-time in the group.<br \/>\nCongratulations to Zongxian for being awarded a SHARCnet PDF fellowship.<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">October 2002 &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Congratulations to Nick Mosey and\u00a0 Stephanie on their Engagement.\u00a0 Yes, Nick popped the big one.<br \/>\nCongratulations to Nick Mosey for being awarded the Christian Sivertz Scholarship in Physical Chemistry.<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">March 2002 &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Congratulations to Nick Mosey for being awarded a NSERC PGSA award.<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">September 2001 &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">We have made a web poster about ROCIT, our groups high performance computing facility.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090906080100\/file:\/C:\/Documents%20and%20Settings\/Tom\/My%20Documents\/Work%20Files\/Woo%20Group%20Web%20Site\/Research\/ROCIT_poster\/contents.html\">Click here to see it.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span>ADF QM\/MM has now been parallelized and the handling of the non-bonded interactions has been made more efficient.\u00a0 Treating of macromolecular systems is now possible.\u00a0 This latest version of the ADF QM\/MM will be released in the next commercial release of ADF (expected in the fall of 2001).<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">September 2001 &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">We have created a new website for the UWO &#8220;ChemClub&#8221; at\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090906080100\/http:\/\/chemclub.chem.uwo.ca\/\">http:\/\/chemclub.chem.uwo.ca<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">August 2001 <\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">ROCIT, our group&#8217;s computing cluster has been upgraded to 71 machines.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090906080100\/http:\/\/vivaldi.chem.uwo.ca\/rocit\">Click here to go to the ROCIT website.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">April 2001 <\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Congratulations to Nick Mosey and Joey Raheb for their efforts at this year&#8217;s international Mathematical Contest in Modeling.\u00a0 Their team (of three) were &#8216;Meritorious Winners&#8217;, which means of the 496 international teams that participated, their contribution ranked in the top 14%<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">March 27, 2001 &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Congratulations to Joey Raheb for being awarded a 2nd place oral presentation prize (physical\/theoretical division) at the 29th Southwestern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference, March 24, 2001, University of Toronto at Scarborough.\u00a0 His winning talk was titled\u00a0 &#8220;Construction and Design of a Small Parallel Computing Cluster for Quantum Chemistry&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Group News July 2014\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0Congratulations to postdoc Dr. Michael Fernandez Llamosa was awarded a fellowship to work in Melbourne Australia for applying cheminformatics to nanoparticles. 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