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December 2012 Merry Christmas and a Happy, productive and peaceful New Year 2013 to everyone!
November 30, 2012 Samuel has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today − congratulations, Dr. Odoh, the first Ph.D. from our group!
See here for the announcement of the defence.
November 7, 2012 Congratulations to Sonia and Abu on the birth of their son, Ongkur Zaman!
"Every baby is a new beginning."
October 2012 Welcome to Jing Zhao, visiting graduate student from Beijing!
August 24, 2012 Lisa has completed a successful summer internship − All the best for your M.Sc. studies at Lund University, Sweden!
July 1 and July 4, 2012 Happy Canada Day!
And, for our friends in the USA, Happy Fourth of July!
June 2, 2012 Congratulations to Sarah and Samuel who exchanged the vows of marriage today. We wish you blessings and happiness for your life together; we 'wish you enough' always!
May 26−30, 2012 We had a very successful (or so I think) symposium "Diversity and Challenges of Inorganic Molecular and Materials Modelling" at the 95th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in downtown Calgary, Alberta. Thanks again to all who contributed or came to see the talks and posters.
May 2012 Congratulations to Guy who has been accepted into the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba.
May 9, 2012 Our wonderful German neighborhood bakery, The Crusty Bun, has been featured by Spiegel Online (article in German). Thanks for your service, and well done, Andy and Frieda!
April 2012 Scott McKay is joining us as an undergraduate researcher − welcome to the group, Scott!
April 8, 2012 Happy Easter!
Frohe Ostern!
April 2012 Zoë Grabowski will join us as an undergraduate researcher in May − welcome to the group, Zoë!
April 2, 2012 Georg's NSERC Discovervy Grant has been renewed for a five-year term.
March 12, 2012 The Nature Chem. "butterfly" paper has been highlighted by Science Daily; a few other sources have picked this up as well.
March 2012 A warm welcome to Lisa Rullik who will join us for the summer (June through August) as a DAAD RISE summer student! Lisa is currently studying at the Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany.
February 2012 Congratulations to Justine who has been offered a position as Laboratory Technician with Bayer CropScience in Saskatoon!
February 2012
Our combined experimental/ theoretical paper in Nature Chemistry has now been published. The adjoining picture shows the table of contents entry.
February 8, 2012 Making ice in Winnipeg: Opening of the "Sea Ice Research Facility" at the University of Manitoba (SERF), under the leadership of Fei Wang. U of M news release and blog; Winnipeg Free Press story.
January 23, 2012 Happy Chinese New Year!
January 2012 The WISE Math ("Western Initiative for Strengthening Education in Math") is dedicated to improving K−12 Math education, particularly in Western Canada. They need support; please consider signing.
January 2012 As of this month, we two new members have joined the group: Craig Peeples is (re-)joining us as a M.Sc. student, and Justine Reyes works on an undergraduate project.
Welcome, Craig and Justine!
January 1, 2012 Happy New Year!
I wish everybody a happy, prosperous, successful and in every way blessed new year! Georg.


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