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  Merry Christmas!        
December 2, 2013 Congratulations to Robel Teklebrhan who successfully defended is Ph.D. thesis in Chemical Engineering today at the University of Alberta.
December 2013 Welcome to Emily Guo who is doing a high-school-science-fair project with us.
November 22 Congratulations to John Wren, former undergraduate student in the group, on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis today! John worked on his Ph.D. in the group of Scott Kroeker. He is currently studying to become a teacher.
October 14 / November 28 Happy Canadian / American Thanksgiving!
    Lots to be thankful for!
*** Interesting article on predatory publishers and their journals:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full#!
*** Congratulations to Akef and Neveen on the birth of their first child!
Son Omar was born June 25th, and mom, dad and baby are doing fine.
September 2013 Congratulations to Sean Walker on winning an NSERC CGS scholarship for graduate studies! Specifically, it is the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS M). Sean will start his M.Sc. program at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, working with Jonathan Baugh.
September 2013 New beginnings for several of our group members:
  • Scott will start in the M.Sc. program of the University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry. He is tentatively scheduled to join the group of Greg Scholes working on quantum effects in biological systems.
  • Zoë will be moving to Halifax.
  • Tiffany will return to her studies at McGill.
    All the best, everybody!
  • August 2013 Welcome to our new graduate student, Jeffery Perkins, who will join us from the University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC.
    August 7, 2013 Congratulations to Abu Asaduzzaman on becoming a Canadian citizen. Welcome to Canada, Abu!
    July 2013 Effective October (or thereabouts), Samuel will start a new postdoctoral position at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, in the group of Laura Gagliardi.
    July 2013 Ten years at the University of Manitoba ... Incredible!
    July 1 and July 4, 2013 Happy Canada Day!
    And, for our American friends, Happy Fourth of July!
    June, 2013 Welcome to our newest group members, Shaun MacLean and Tiffany Liang!
    Tiffany joins the group from McGill University.
    June 2013 Congratulations to Scott for being selected as "one of the five winners for the best poster presentation among all student presentations in materials chemistry during the last CSC meeting held in Quebec City". This prize was awarded for Scott's poster on DSSC dyes.
    June 2013 Congratulations to Scott who has been accepted into the graduate program at the University of Toronto. All the best for this new stage in your life, Scott!
    May 17, 2013 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1585
    May 2013 Postdoc position for a joint project with the Freund group on materials modeling (memory materials). See here for the full advertisement.
    May 7, 2013 Manitoba Materials Conference (MMC) organized by the Manitoba Institute for Materials (MIM). See here for the conference website and program.
    May 2013 Our summer students for 2013:
    Welcome to Wes Johnson, and welcome back to Scott and Zoë!
    April 2013 Life on Mars: Blog article describing one of Scott's projects on creating an educational module centered around settling on Mars. Fascinating!
    March 30, 2013 Georg has been promoted to Professor.
    February 2013 I am looking for new graduate students! See here for the details. This advertisement will be cross-posted to various forums.
    February 15, 2013 Akef presented (and passed) his colloquium today.
    February 13, 2013 The University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA), together with other campus unions, is holding a Rally for Action. I wrote a little note to the colleagues in the Faculty of Science (copied here) that, judging from the reactions, seems to have struck a nerve.
      In short, come out to the rally!
    February 10, 2013 Happy Chinese New Year! It is the year of the snake.
    January 2013 Samuel is starting a postdoctoral position at the EMSL in Richland (WA, USA). He is working with Dr. Bert (Wibe) de Jong. All the best for this new stage in your lifes, Sarah and Samuel!
    December 2012 Merry Christmas and a happy, productive and peaceful New Year 2013 to everyone!


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