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December 25, 2017 Merry Christmas to all!
December 2017 Xiaobin has just been awarded a G. T. Seaborg Institute Research Fellowship. It will allow him to spend the coming summer of 2018 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working once again with Ping Yang. Congratulations!
December 4, 2017 An interview on our research and my recent NSERC Discovery Grant, published by the Faculty of Science.
November 2017 Departmental Newsletter published − check it out!
November 2017 Congratulations to our chemistry scholarship winners:
  - Hugh J. Anderson Graduate Award in Chemistry: Saumya, Gurpreet, Xiaobin
  - Ernst and Ingrid Bock Graduate Award: Saumya
  - Mark G. and Patricia N. Smerchanski Graduate Award in Chemistry: Saumya
  - Walter and Elizabeth Rodewald Scholarship: Gurpreet, Xiaobin
  - Bert and Lee Friesen Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry: Saumya, Xiaobin
  - R.H. Betts Graduate Award in Chemistry: Saumya
See the Departmental Facebook Page for some pictures of the Awards Night.
October 9, 2017 A very happy and blessed Thanksgiving to all! Always lots to be thankful for.
      And, welcome back to Xiaobin who spent a productive summer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working with Ping Yang and Enrique Batista.


September 2017
Pictures from the recent WATOC 2017 in Munich, Germany, have now been posted.

It was a great conference, and we are looking forward to WATOC 2020 in Vancouver!
September 2017 Another little milestone: H-index now at 35, and total number of citations >5000. (Web of Science numbers.)
August 17, 2017 Congratulations to Laura who won the Faculty of Science Summer Student Poster competition today!
August 2, 2017 New furniture has arrived for the student lab/ office! This completes the move into room 452 Parker.
July 19, 2017 Congratulations to Jeffery Perkins who successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis today! All the best for the future, Jeff!



July 1, 2017
Happy 150th Birthday Canada!
June 8, 2017 Congratulations to Sophia, Tristan, and all our other graduates who received their degrees today!
May 2017 Looking for graduate students!
      See here for the detailed ad; or see here for the CCL.net version.

May 2017 I feel honoured and touched − and indeed humbled − to have been awarded the inaugural Department of Chemistry Award for Research Achievement. Thanks to my colleagues for it.
      Here is the departmental Facebook post.
May 2017 Congratulations to former project student/ summer student Fernanda Palazzo on her new position at Merck in São Paulo!
May 1, 2017 Welcome back to Laura Ferch who is joining us as a summer student! Laura will work on the interaction of 2D materials with heavy elements.
April 2017 Congratulations to former group member Zoë Grabowski who recently finished her M.A.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering at Dalhousie University!
April 2017 Just got news of the renewal of my NSERC Discovery Grant!
April 8, 2017 Congratulations to Nish who successfully presented his B.Sc. Honours research project on complexes of later actinide elements!
March 21, 2017       Our 100th paper has just been accepted!
I have written a little LinkedIn blog post on this occasion, entitled "A little milestone: Reflections on my 100th paper".


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Our Concept Article entitled "Differential Solvation" has been published by Chem. Eur. J.; it is also featured on a frontispiece (as pictured to the left).
Check it out!
January
2017
Thaneshwor's review on "Current Developments in Silicene and Germanene" has been listed by Web of Science as Highly Cited Paper and Hot Paper. Congratulations!

January 1, 2017

Happy New Year!


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