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Reisner Group to host Solar Fuels Symposium

Courtesy of Solar Fuels Network

Dr Erwin Reisner and Dr Junwang Tang (University College London) will chair the 4th Annual UK Solar Fuels Symposium on 22 January 2016 at St John's College.


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Postdoc Dr Michael Gaultois featured in Cambridge News

Image courtesy Robert Redfield/OtoJoy

Postdoc Dr Michael Gaultois was featured in the 28 October edition of the Cambridge News.  


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Department opens doors to potential graduates

Image courtesy Nathan Pitt, Department of Chemistry.

On Friday 23 October, the department held its second Graduate Admissions Open Day, with over 100 potential graduate students attending from across the UK and Europe. 


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New design points a path to the ‘ultimate’ battery

Image courtesy of T Liu et al.; Science 350: 530 (2015)

Researchers have successfully demonstrated how several of the problems impeding the practical development of the so-called 'ultimate' battery could be overcome.


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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Announced

Image courtesy (c) Nobel Media AB; photographer Alexander Mahmoud

Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair."


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Cambridge-AstraZeneca PhD Programme in Chemical Synthesis

Applications are invited for a four-year PhD programme based in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and the new AstraZeneca Global Research and Development Centre at Cambridge.


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The International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

Image courtesy Nasa

 Is the ozone hole healing? Are we safe from harmful UV rays?


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The Yusuf Hamied Laboratory for Chemical Synthesis & Catalysis

Image courtesy Nathan Pitt, Department of Chemistry.

Over 90 guests attended the opening ceremony of the Yusuf Hamied Laboratory for Chemical Synthesis & Catalysis on 12 September.


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Data in Drug Discovery - It's Time to Get Honest!

Image courtesy Jonathan Goodman

The Centre for Molecular Informatics in the Department of Chemistry will host a Data in Drug Discovery symposium on 23 September in the Unilever Lecture Theatre.


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Professor Jeremy Sanders to be honoured in Symposium

Courtesy Department of Chemistry

A Symposium celebrating the research career of Professor Jeremy Sanders will be held in the Chemistry Department on 4th September.


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Matt Gaunt wins Royal Society and ACS awards

Professor Matt Gaunt has won the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award.


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The Chemistry of Wine

Courtesy of University of Cambridge

The Chemistry Department will host a Call My Bluff wine tasting as part of the Cambridge University Alumni Festival on Friday 25th September.

 


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Allen Distinguished Investigator grant awarded

Courtesy of Department of Chemistry

An interdisciplinary research team which includes Dr Steven Lee has been awarded an £850 thousand Allen Distinguished Investigator (ADI) grant for its project “Resolving white matter dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease with novel biosensors.” 


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Dr Reginald Prince, 1927 - 2015

Courtesy of St John's College
Many Department of Chemistry alumni and former staff members will remember with great affection Reg Prince, who has died at the age of 88.     
 

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Registration for Joliot Curie Conference now open

Image courtesy Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry is sponsoring the annual Joliot Curie Conference at Murray Edwards College on 16-17 September.