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.

Prof. Clarke has been shortlisted for this year's WISE Awards. The shortlist highlights 28 individuals and organisations for their outstanding contribution to the representation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded jointly to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy".

The BBSRC has announced the second incarnation of Doctoral Training Partnerships in which £125M is divided between 11 Centres across the UK. The Cambridge DTP has been awarded £15M to fund 150 PhD studentships over the 5 years starting in 2015.

The 2014 Hansch Award has been awarded to Andreas Bender for "outstanding contributions in the field of molecular similarity, and integrating biological and chemical descriptors for in silico pharmacology".

The Cambridge-Warsaw Young Chemists' Symposium was held in Cambridge from 13th-15th September 2014, focussing on the broad range of chemistry being undertaken at leading institutes in Warsaw and the Department.

John Pyle was featured on the Australian news programme "AM" to discuss a report which has revealed that the ozone layer is on track to recovery, thanks to concerted international action against ozone depleting substances.

Joint experimental and computer-simulational work by Stephen Elliott and his group, and researchers from both the Data Storage Institute and the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has opened a doorway for developing faster computers.

Gonçalo Bernades has been awarded the Silver Medal of the European Young Chemist Award.