News in 2014
- Nature-inspired engineering project wins Leverhulme grant 9 December 2014 A project to develop ‘biomimetic’ devices that re-orientate in response to light has been granted funding by the Leverhulme Trust.
- Innovate UK success for Knowledge Transfer Partnership 8 December 2014 The Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Photek Ltd., University of Bristol, and Dr Orla Kelly has been shortlisted as a finalist for the KTP Best of the Best Award 2014.
- Professor Jonathan Reid's Aerosol group develops aerosol optical tweezers 28 October 2014 A device which allows users to hold airborne particles, aerosols, for extended periods has been developed by a team at the University of Bristol and Portishead-based firm Biral.
- Professor Dek Woolfson and his team create designer 'barrel' proteins 23 October 2014 Designer proteins that expand on nature’s own repertoire, created by a team of chemists and biochemists from the University of Bristol, are described in a paper published this week in Science.
- Ash awarded a scholarship to hatch an “Ecoegg” 23 October 2014 Ash Earl, an MSc project student in Dr. Wuge Briscoe's group, has received a £500 scholarship from Ecoegg.
- Niall McCreanor selected to attend Syngenta Postgraduate Scholarship Workshop 30 September 2014 Congratulations to Niall McCreanor who has been selected to participate in the 2014 Syngenta Postgraduate Scholarship Workshop.
- Megan Shaw selected to present research in India 29 September 2014 Congratulations to Megan Shaw who has been selected to present her research at the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.
- Professor Mike Ashfold awarded Herbert P. Broida Prize 22 September 2014 Professor Mike Ashfold FRS has been awarded the prestigious Herbert P. Broida Prize by the American Physical Society.
- Megan Shaw wins seminar prize 17 September 2014 Megan Shaw has been awarded the best seminar prize at the Royal Society of Chemistry 29th Annual Postgraduate Meeting of the Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group. The meeting was held on 16th September at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Abingdon.
- School of Chemistry researchers publish in Nature 12 September 2014 Researchers in the School of Chemistry have published two papers in Nature in one week.
- Chemistry Explored second edition now available 12 September 2014 The second edition of Chemistry Explored, the School of Chemistry's magazine is now available.
- Ikenna Ndukwe wins poster prize at SMASH 2014 11 September 2014 Ikenna Ndukwe, a PhD student in the School of Chemistry, under the supervision of Dr Craig Butts, has been awarded the runner-up prize for his poster entitled "Sensitivity and Resolution Enhancement in EXSIDE and band selective EXSIDE" at SMASH 2014.
- Manners group publishes in Nature Chemistry 8 September 2014 Professor Ian Manners' research group have recently published a paper in Nature Chemistry, this is the group's fourth paper published in Nature and Science journals so far in 2014.
- Coming up smelling of roses – WI workshops 8 September 2014 The team behind Picture It… Chemistry has teamed up with the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) to bring chemistry to the WI membership through a number of workshops.
- Hind Rattan Award 2015 4 September 2014 Professor Varinder Aggarwal FRS has been awarded the prestigious Hind Rattan Award 2015 which will be presented at a function in New Delhi in early 2015.
- Young Boron Chemist Award 3 September 2014 Dr Amadeu Bonet, a Marie Curie Fellow from Professor Varinder Aggarwal's group, has won the prestigious Young Boron Chemist Award for young scientists (up to 35 years).
- Prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Award for Professor Dek Woolfson 29 August 2014 Professor Dek Woolfson from the School of Chemistry and School of Biochemistry is one of 14 new Wolfson Research Merit Award holders announced by the Royal Society.
- 2014 National Student Survey 14 August 2014 The results of the 2014 National Student Survey have revealed that 97% of students in the School of Chemistry expressed overall satisfaction with the Chemistry programme.
- Professor Mann named among “the world’s leading scientific minds” 6 August 2014 Professor Stephen Mann FRS has been named as one of five University of Bristol academics in the Thomson Reuters' report "The world’s most influential scientific minds: 2014."
- Tyntesfield medicine cabinet 29 July 2014 The School of Chemistry's Jenny Slaughter and Tony Rogers recently visited the National Trust property Tyntesfield House, to help identify the contents of a medicine cabinet stocked during the 1800’s and early 1900’s. The collection is due to go on display at Tyntesfield House, in the autumn of 2014.
- Open University Summer School 29 July 2014 During July the undergraduate teaching laboratories in the School of Chemistry, hosted seventy-three Open University students, as they completed a three day residential course.
- Novel strategy for organic synthesis 27 July 2014 In a recent Nature Chemistry paper, Professor Varinder Aggarwal and Dr Ramesh Rasappan describe a novel strategy for organic synthesis. This involves a new method for combining smaller fragments together in which there is no obvious history in the product of their genesis.
- ChemArt in RSC exhibition 14 July 2014 Images from researchers working at the School of Chemistry and creative writing by primary school students inspired by the pictures, are being shown in London as part of a Royal Society of Chemistry exhibition in London.
- Happy first birthday, Picture It… Chemistry! 10 July 2014 Picture It...Chemistry, the blog founded by Drs Jenny Slaughter and Natalie Fey, celebrates its 1st birthday.
- Poster prize at 21st International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry 7 July 2014 Andrew Stonor (PhD student in the Russell group) won a poster prize at the 21st International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry held in Dublin last week.
- Picture It… Herb Walk 7 July 2014 A couple of weeks ago, Picture It… Chemistry invited a local herbalist (Max Drake from The Urban Fringe Dispensary) to guide fellow plant and chemistry enthusiasts on an evening herb walk in the local Brandon Hill Park in Bristol.
- Meet the Universities 2014 17 June 2014 The School of Chemistry's Dr Jonathan Charmant and Dr Jenny Slaughter, will be attending Meet the Universities 2014 on Saturday 28th June (London) and Saturday 12th July (Leeds).
- Jonathan Clayden to move to Bristol 12 June 2014 Professor Jonathan Clayden will join the School of Chemistry at Bristol in August 2015.
- Aggarwal group publishes in Nature Chemistry 9 June 2014 Writing in Nature Chemistry, Aggarwal and co-workers describe a new method for coupling together secondary and tertiary boronic esters to aromatic compounds. This new method fills a major gap in the Nobel Prize-winning Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction which was limited in the past to the creation of essentially flat molecules, to ones with 3-D structure.
- Poster prize for Beatrice Sironi’s PhD research on interfacial liposomes 6 June 2014 Beatrice Sironi has been awarded a poster prize at the annual BM28(XMaS) User Meeting on 5th June at the University of Warwick.
- New nanowire growth mechanism observed 12 May 2014 Nanowire collaboration with Japanese National Institute for Materials Science yields successful growth of nanowires
- Chemistry scoops 4 prestigious RSC Awards 6 May 2014 Four members of staff have won prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Awards
- RSC Carbohydrate Meeting success 6 May 2014 ChemComm Poster Prize at 2014 Carbohydrate Group Meeting
- Poster success at RSC Theoretical Chemistry Group 2 May 2014 Chris Taylor scoops poster prize at UCL
- Metallomics poster prize for Pringle group 2 May 2014 PhD student Sofia Papadouli has won a prize for her poster, which was presented at the Dalton 2014 conference in Warwick.
- Coated droplets hint at formation of early cells 23 April 2014 Researchers at the University of Bristol have designed a chemical system that brings together alternative ideas on how primitive cells were formed on the early Earth to produce a new model of protocell organization. The work is described in an article published this week in Nature Chemistry.
- Colloids student receives micro grant to present nano work at Cambridge 11 April 2014 Julia Bartenstein has been awarded a Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Micro Travel Grant to present her research on interfacial polymersomes in Cambridge.
- School of Chemistry launches 'Chemistry Explored' magazine 9 April 2014 The School of Chemistry has launched its very own magazine, Chemistry Explored, a biannual magazine which features contributions from staff and students from the School of Chemistry.
- Bristol study shows potential harmful effect of synthetic greenhouse gases 8 April 2014 Study shows that HFC replacements can have harmful effects
- Charl Faul awarded adjunct professorship in Beijing 3 April 2014 Charl Faul has recently been awarded an adjunct professorship at the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, by Professor Zhang (Head of the Department of Chemistry and Dean of the Faculty of Science, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences).