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Gonçalo Bernardes awarded ERC Starting Grant

Image courtesy Department of Chemistry Photography

Feb 10 2016

Dr Gonçalo Bernardes has been awarded a European Research Council starting grant, designed for talented young research leaders.

L'Oréal-UNESCO Fellowships for Women in Science now open

Image courtesy Women in Science

Feb 8 2016

The L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Fellowships Programme for 2016 is now open for applications.

Polar stratospheric clouds appear over Cambridge

Image courtesy Peter Gallimore

Feb 1 2016

Polar stratospheric clouds made a rare appearance over the skies of Cambridge on Monday 1 February.

Professor Daan Frenkel awarded Boltzmann medal

Image courtesy Nathan Pitt, Department of Chemistry.

Jan 29 2016

Professor Daan Frenkel has been awarded the Boltzmann Medal for 2016, the most important prize awarded in the field of statistical mechanics.

How many ways can you arrange 128 tennis balls?

Image of authors courtesy Nathan Pitt, Department of Chemistry

Jan 28 2016

A bewildering physics problem has apparently been solved by a team of researchers led by a group of theoretical chemists in the Department of Chemistry.

2016 Linnett Lecturer to visit department

Marcus Halevi

Jan 25 2016

The 2016 Linnett Lecturer, Harvard Professor Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, will visit the department from 16th - 19th February.

4th UK Solar Fuels Symposium

Delegates at the the 4th Solar Fuels Symposium

Jan 22 2016

Dr Erwin Reisner and Dr Junwang Tang co-chaired the 4th UK Solar Fuels Symposium in collaboration with the Solar Fuels Network (SFN) at St John’s College’s School of Divinity.

Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Technologies Competition now open

2015 winner Andrew Marsden/Image RSC; MPP Image Creation

Jan 19 2016

The Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Technologies competition is an annual innovation initiative, turning promising ideas into commercial reality.

NERC CAST project results published in Nature Communications

Image courtesy of Loretta Kuo/Shawn Honomichi

Jan 13 2016

A US/UK campaign looking at the remote tropical atmosphere over the West Pacific has produced exciting insights into the effects of biomass burning on its composition, and the role of the burning of forests and vegetation in climate change.

Rotary Club raises over £37,000 from charity car park scheme

Image courtesy Cambridge Rotary Club South

Jan 11 2016

The Rotary Club of Cambridge South has raised over £37,000 for local charities through its charity car parking scheme this year, of which over £6,000 has come from the Chemistry site.

Gonçalo Bernardes awarded ERC Starting Grant

L'Oréal-UNESCO Fellowships for Women in Science now open

Polar stratospheric clouds appear over Cambridge

Professor Daan Frenkel awarded Boltzmann medal

How many ways can you arrange 128 tennis balls?

2016 Linnett Lecturer to visit department

4th UK Solar Fuels Symposium

Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Technologies Competition now open

NERC CAST project results published in Nature Communications

Rotary Club raises over £37,000 from charity car park scheme

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