Oren Scherman has won the 2014 Bob Hay lectureship, awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Macrocycles and Supramolecular Chemistry group.

Dr Yusuf Hamied, pharmaceutical chemist, philanthropist and benefactor of our Department and of the University, has received the 2014 Economic Times Lifetime Achievement award. 

It is with great regret that we announce that Edgar (Tiger) Coxall passed away on Friday 5th December 2014.

Jane Clarke has been included in the latest edition of Who's Who, which lists living notable Britons.

Gonçalo Bernardes has been awarded the 2014 European Prize of the Royal Chemistry Society of Spain (RSEQ) Chemical Biology Division.

Applications are open for the BBSRC DTP, NERC DTP, NanoDTC and the CDT for Sensor Technologies to start in October 2015.

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dr Frank Allen on 10th November 2014.

John Pyle and Neil Harris have been announced as finalists of the inaugural NERC Impact Awards. The awards intend to recognise and reward the contribution of NERC science to the UK's economy, society and international reputation.

The Department extends its congratulations to Sir John Meurig Thomas, former Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry, who has been awarded the 5th Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences.