5.00pm 8th May Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Written and Directed by Carl Djerassi (Stanford University)
5.00pm 8th May Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Written and Directed by Carl Djerassi (Stanford University)
Suitable for chemistry graduates interested in completing a PhD Programme working at the interface of the Chemical and Biological Sciences.
The Alex Hopkins memorial lecture will be given by Professor C. V. Robinson, F.R.S.
Friday 23rd March
4.00pm – 5.00pm
Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Department of Chemistry
As part of the University of Cambridge Science Festival taking place in March, the Department of Chemistry will open its laboratories to the public
Saturday 17th March saw the department flooded with over 2000 visitors who came to see for themselves how hard-working students are pushing back the frontiers of science.
The Department welcomes Professor Dan Nocera, MIT, as the Lewis Lecturer for 2012.
The annual BP Graduate Seminars were held in the department on the afternoon of 8th March.
Deborah Longbottom has won one of this year’s Pilkington Teaching Prizes, which recognise outstanding contributions to teaching within the university.
On 27th and 28th February our department hosted a delegation of 8 academics from the Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Professor Clare Grey recently took part in a Kavli Foundation online roundtable discussion on the future of electric cars, with two other experts in field. The aim was to highlight the main issues preventing the wider uptake of electric cars, and what is being done about them.
Applications are invited for the post of Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, to take up appointment on 1 October 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Gareth Lloyd has been awarded the CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists.
Sir Alan Fersht is to be the next Master of Gonville and Caius College. He will take up the position in October.
On Friday, December 16th 2011, the Cambridge Centre for Computational Materials Science was officially inaugurated.
Cheminformatics: New prediction models for active ingredient properties.
The agenda for the the Inauguration Ceremony for the Lennard-Jones Centre for Computational Materials Sciencein the Unilever Lecture Theatre (Chemistry)on Friday 16 December 2011 at 4.30pm is now published.
Ruth Lynden-Bell has been awarded the Paul Walden Award for 2011 for her work on ionic liquids by the German Research Foundation.
On Friday, December 16th, an inter-departmental Centre for Computational Materials Science will be inaugurated.
An event at the House of Commons recognised the students who achieved the highest marks in the first Cambridge Chemistry Challenge.
A new centre dedicated to research into innovative therapies for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases is being established in the chemistry department.
Dominic Wright has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. The five-year grant will support his work on non-classical main group chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and catalysis.
The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Christopher Dobson, has been elected a Member of the Academia Europaea.
To mark the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, an article by Neil Harris of the atmospheric section has been published on the university website
Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals.
Emeritus reader Peter Murray-Rust has won the 2012 Herman Skolnik award, presented by the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Information.
A new computer is now up and running, providing David Wales’ group with a 500 core computer cluster server to carry out calculations of how molecules and bulk systems self-organise.
Jonathan Nitschke has won the Cram Lehn Pedersen prize for 2012. This prize is sponsored by the RSC journal ChemComm, and recognises significant, original and independent work in supramolecular chemistry by emerging investigators.
Shankar Balasubramanian’s group has found a molecule, first isolated from bacteria, which can block a protein that causes breast cancer, giving an insight into how breast cancer can develop and spread.
The Department of Chemistry has unveiled the new, cutting-edge Todd-Hamied Laboratory. The laboratory will explore harnessing materials for energy storage and conversion in an effort to develop the next generation of batteries and fuel cells.
The Department is pleased to announce that the 2011 Dalton Transactions European/African Lectureship has been awarded to Dr Jonathan Nitschke.
The Department of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Professor Steve Ley has been awarded the Royal Medal for 2011 for his pioneering research in organic chemistry and outstanding contributions to the methodology of synthesis.
The Department of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Professor Clare Grey has been awarded the Kavli Medal and Lecture 2011 for her pioneering work in the use of solid state NMR in the development of lithium-ion batteries.
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Jeremy Sanders on his appointment as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Affairs at the University of Cambridge from 1st October 2011.
The Department is pleased to announce that, in addition to Ali’s recent promotion to a Professorship, he has been awarded an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship. These are senior Investigator awards of the Research Councils, and provide the opportunity for the PI to focus his time on research.
The Department is very pleased to announce that the Dr David Spring has been given the Norman Heatley Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The Norman Heatley Award is to recognise and promote the importance of inter- and multi-disciplinary research between chemistry and the life sciences through independent work.
We are pleased to announce that the following have all been awarded Corporate Associates Prizes for excellence in Practical Class Demonstration:
Anna Andreou, Elliot Bayle, Beatrice Collins, Pillippa Cranwell,Jake Goodwin-Tindal, Jo Haywood, Tanya Hutter, Sam Jones, David Ponting, Tom Scrase, Jonathan Skelton and Francesca Stokes
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to be able to announce that Dr Ali Alavi has been promoted to Professor and that Drs Melinda Duer, Jonathan Nitschke and David Spring have been promoted to Readers.
The Department is very pleased to be able to announce that Dr Peter Wothers has been awarded the RSC President’s Award for his outstanding contribution to public outreach in the chemical sciences.
Professor Jeremy Sanders - Head of School of Physical Sciences is delighted to announce that Professor William Jones has been elected an inaugural Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
The Department is delighted to be able to announce that Clare has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Newnham College invites applications from women and men for Associate Lectureships in Physical Sciences.
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Professor Daan Frenkel has been awarded the Joseph Hirschfelder Prize 2011-2012, University of Wisconsin
Congratulations to Andreas Bender, Lecturer for Molecular Informatics at the Department of Chemistry, receives the Innovation Prize of the German Pharmaceutical and Chemical Societies (DPhG and GDCh) 2011.
In addition Andreas has also won the 4th annual MGMS Silver Jubilee Prize.
The Department will host lectures by three RSC Organic prize winners
Congratulations to Jonathan Nitschke on the award of a Corday-Morgan Medal and to Tomislav Friscic for the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize for 2011.
This will take place at 12.00 Noon, Monday 15th November, in the Large Chapel, Cambridge City Crematorium, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0JJ, and will be followed by a reception at Churchill College, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0DS
It is with great regret that we announce that Professor Dudley Williams FRS died after a short illness.
Our Department Website has been redesigned to provide the capability to present information from more sources.
Dr Erwin Reisner has been appointed as Inorganic Lecturer (Materials, Energy and Sustainability) with a start date of 1 October 2010.
Julian Huppert, who studied for his PhD in the Department of Chemistry, and subsequently worked as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics within the department has been elected as the Member of Parliament for Cambridge.
Professor Daan Frenkel has been awarded the RSC Soft Matter & Biophysical Chemistry Award for 2010. The citation refers to his work on “the development and application of computational methods that have transformed our understanding of soft and biomolecular materials”.
Professor Shankar Balasubramanian has been named as the BBSRC Innovator of the Year, winning £10,000 in recognition of his work on Solexa sequencing, the high speed genome sequencing technology that is revolutionising bioscience.
