News in 2011
- Bristol ChemLabS Outreach involved in project that wins national award 22 December 2011 An EU Project on Spectroscopy for Vocational Science Courses has just won a National Award in Slovenia.
- Guy Lloyd-Jones' and Kevin Booker-Milburn's paper makes 'News of the Week' 16 December 2011 Guy Lloyd-Jones' and Kevin Booker-Milburn's Angewandte Chemie paper makes 'News of the Week' in ACS's magazine C&E News
- New Chem@rt Gallery launched 14 December 2011 The Chem@rt Gallery 2011/12 has been compiled and is now available to teachers.
- School of Chemistry given six Marie Curie Fellowships 13 December 2011 The School of Chemistry has secured six Marie Curie Fellowships.
- Nick Norman to be new Head of School 10 December 2011 Professor Nick Norman will become the new Head of the School of Chemistry, as of August 1st 2012.
- Electrochemistry group's work on cover of PCCP, and a student poster prize 10 December 2011 An article based on a final-year research project from last year has been published in PCCP.
- Des Davis awarded University's 40-year service medal 10 December 2011 Des Davis, who runs our Microanalytical Laboratory, is presented with the University's 40-year service medal.
- Nick Walker to move to full-time lectureship in Newcastle 6 December 2011 Congratulations to Nick Walker, currently a Royal Society University Research Fellow here, has been appointed as a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of Newcastle, and he will take up this appointment on March 1.
- Monika Zeleznik wins MRS poster prize 5 December 2011 Monika Zeleznik, a PhD student working in the CVD diamond group, won 'best poster prize' for her poster about 'CVD Diamond Microplasmas'
- Simon O’Doherty awarded €500,000 as part of European climate policy project 2 December 2011 Dr Simon O’Doherty has been awarded €500,000 as part of InGOS, a European project to monitor emissions of methane, nitrous oxide and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases and improve the observational infrastructure.
- Outreach in research grants makes an impact on teachers 25 November 2011 The December edition of School Science Review (SSR), guest-edited by Tim Harrison, contains several articles by chemists from the School of Chemistry.
- Fusion seminar on icecream 7 November 2011 The first Fusion seminar of the year went ahead last week.
- Geri Echue wins poster prize 4 November 2011 Geri Echue, a joint PhD student in the research groups of Guy Lloyd-Jones and Charl Faul, won one of 10 student poster prizes.
- New protein structure expands nature's repertoire of biomolecules 30 October 2011 A new, artificial protein structure has been made by a team of University of Bristol chemists, biochemists and mathematicians, a paper in Nature Chemical Biology reports this week.
- Research into energy flow features on the cover of Nature Chemistry 26 October 2011 ‘Energy flow maps’ which provide new insight into how chemical reactions work are described in a paper by Dr David Glowacki and colleagues at the University of Bristol in the November issue of Nature Chemistry.