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| December 25, 2016
| Merry Christmas!
[Jennifer Nettles, O Holy Night]
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| Congratulations to Akef who recently became an Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Balqa Applied University, Jordan!
| November 2016
| It's that time of year again − time to congratulate our scholarship winners!
- Saumya: Ernst and Ingrid Bock Graduate Award and Faculty of Science Graduate Studentship
- Gurpreet: Hugh J. Anderson Graduate Award in Chemistry and Frank and Donna Hruska Award
- Xiaobin: Hugh J. Anderson Graduate Award in Chemistry
- Jeff: Mark G. And Patricia N. Smerchanski Graduate Award in Chemistry
| November 2016
| Welcome to Oscar Miguel Rivera Borroto! Oscar will join us from Amazonian State University (Universidad Estatal Amazónica), Puyo, Ecuador, for a 6-months visit funded by the Emerging Leaders of the Americas (ELAP) program. Oscar brings his own research project on natural products from the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest.
| October 31, 2016
| My NSERC Discovery Grant Application is submitted − phew! ..... Happy Halloween!
| October 11, 2016
| I would like to welcome Prof. Udo Schwingenschlögl from KAUST who will visit the department for a one-day visit and seminar.
Welcome to Canada, Udo!
| October 10, 2016
| Happy Thanksgiving!
Lots to be grateful for.
| October 2016
| Congratulations to Craig Peeples! Craig just got a position as Junior Software/IT Developer with Pricerazzi here in Winniepg.
| September 2016
| Congratulations to Scott McKay who was awarded a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship. Scott will use it to do his Ph.D. at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin.
Good luck with that new adventure, and enjoy Ireland, Scott!
| September 2016
| New group members and new beginnings:
- Xiaobin continues his research as a Ph.D. student, working on actinide chemistry.
- Saumya Jayasundara joins us from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Saumya will work on solar energy projects.
- Nishadh Rathod joins us as an Honours Student, working on the chemistry of late actinide elements.
Welcome all!
| August 27, 2016
| Today, 25 years ago, was the day that Ulrike and I first landed in Canada. − Thank you, Canada and America, you both have been good to us.
| August 16, 2016
| Today, both Craig and Xiaobin successfully defended their respective M.Sc. theses.
Congratulations, Craig and Xiaobin! This is a major milestone that you have passed.
| August 2, 2016
| Congratulations!
... to Abu Asaduzzaman who is starting as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.
All the best to the whole family in your new home!
| July 1, 2016
| Congratulations to Samuel Odoh who is starting a new position as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nevada, Reno!
All the best to you and your family!
| July 2016
| Some photographs from the recent Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CSTCC 2016) in Regina − where Georg gave a plenary lecture − posted here. (Courtesy Allan East, who, by the way, ran an excellent conference.)
| July 1 2016
| Happy Birthday, Canada!
The True North strong and free.
June 10, 2016
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| | June 5−9, 2016
| Symposium "Celebrating the Life and Science of Tom Ziegler" at the CSC 2016 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
As part of the symposium, Tom Woo (University of Ottawa) gave his award lecture for the inaugural Tom Ziegler Award of the CSC − Congratulations, Tom!
| May 2016
| Welcome to Wiljanne Vanderlee, our newest graduate student!
Wiljanne will join us from the University of New Brunswick.
| May 13, 2016
| So you want to join my research group.
I have published a little blog post on LinkedIn with some thoughts on and for (overseas) applicants for graduate studies and postdoc positions.
| May 10, 2016
| Congratulations to Jeff who won a Poster Prize at the annual Manitoba Materials Conference (MMC) of the Manitoba Institute for Materials (MIM)!
| May 2016
| Congratulations to former group members Christophe and Wei Bin who are graduating this year − all the best, and let us know how things are going for you!
| May 2016
| Welcome to our 2016 summer students: Laura Ferch and Michael Adeyemi come from the University of Manitoba, and Sonal Maroo joins us from India as a MITACS Globalink fellow.
| April 23, 2016
| Congratulations to Emily and Joy who won a Silver Medal for their project "Singlet Fission" at the Science Fair at Fort Richmond Collegiate!
| February 2016
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| Thaneshwor's review of 2D silicene and germanene is being featured on the journal cover of the February Issue. Congratulations, Thaneshwor!
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| | January 2016
| Congratulations to Fernanda who started a new job as Customer Service Specialist at Agilent Technologies in São Paulo!
| January 18, 2016
| Thaneshwor's invited review article entitled "Current Developments in Silicene and Germanene" has just been published online; check it out!
| January 1, 2016
| Welcome to our newest graduate student, Gurpreet Kour, who will join us effective January 1!
Gurpreet joins us from Jammu, India.
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