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Mr Lance Brooker, PhD student, on winning the prize for best seminar at the 15th annual RACI Environmental and Analytical Division R & D Conference held at Flinders University in December. His seminar was entitled: LC-MS/MS quantification and matrix effects - Implications for the doping control of glucocorticosteroids.
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Dr Kate Jolliffe on her award of the prestigious 2007 - 2008 Young Tall Poppy Science Award. The awards were presented by the NSW Minister for Science and Medical Research, Verity Firth and the NSW Minister for Education and Training, John Della Bosca. Kate's research work includes developing molecules to help cancer drugs attack cancer cells. The Tall Poppy Campaign is a project of the Australian Institute of Policy and Science, with support from the NSW Office for Science & Medical Research and the NSW Department of Education and Training.
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Cassandra Rauert, Honours student, on her award of the RACI Analytical Chemistry Group Honours Student Prize. The title of Cassandra's presentation was "Development and validation of a method for detection and quantification of perfluorinated compounds in human blood samples."
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Shane Wilkinson, PhD student, on his award of the 2007 Honours Prize RACI Western Sydney Section.
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Emeritus Professor Hans Freeman on his award of a RACI Distinguished Fellowship.
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Associate Professor Sébastien Perrier who has been awarded the Macro Group UK Young Researchers Medal in recognition of his contributions to Polymer Chemistry.
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Associate Professor Sébastien Perrier on his election as Secretary of the Polymer Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
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PhD students Jill Halliday, Jeannette McAlpine and Alexandra Yeung on being awarded the 2007 Le Fevre Student Lectureships. These will be given on Wednesday 7 November at 5.30pm in Chemistry Lecture Theatre 2.
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Mark Hackett, PhD student, on his award of Best Student Poster Presentation at the recently held Australian Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy.
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Andrew McLeod, Honours student, who was part of the USyd team that won the Sir Harry Gibbs National Moot Competition, held at Victoria University. Andrew was awarded Best Speaker in the Grand Final. The Competition involved law schools from around Australia mooting issues of constitutional law.
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George Zhong on his award of the 2007 RACI Masson Memorial Prize.
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Associate Professor Tony Masters on his award of the 2007 RACI Centenary of Federation Teaching Award (Tertiary).
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Ms Natasha Sciortino, postgraduate student, who has been awarded the 2007 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded each year to support the education and research program of promising graduate students in crystallography-related fields.
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Dr Mal McLeod on his award of the Biota Award for Medicinal Chemistry. The RACI Biota Award is awarded to the chemist judged to be responsible for the best drug design and development paper published, patent taken out or commerical-in-confidence report in the previous calendar year concerning small molecules as potential therapeutic agents.
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Professor Trevor Hambley on his election as President-Elect for the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry.
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Associate Professor Scott Kable, Dr Adrian George, Justin Read and Simon Barrie (ITL) on their award of the 2007 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Support of the Student Experience for their work on the ACELL , Advancing Chemistry by Enhancing Learning in the Laboratory.
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Associate Professor Scott Kable, Mr Justin Read, Dr Simon Barrie (ITL), Associate Professor Mark Buntine (U Adelaide) and Dr Ian Jamie (Macquarie U) on receiveing a 2007 Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for their work on the ACELL Project.
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Dr Tim Schmidt, who was part of a consortium of researchers at Sydney, UNSW and the Institute of Solar Energy, Madrid, who were successful in attracting a total of USD1.8M in funding from the Global Climate and Energy Project for their proposal: Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate PV Converter.
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Professor John Canning on his award of a Villum Kann Rasmussen Visiting Professorship to work for three months at the interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre (iNANO), School of Physics and Astronomy, Arhus University, Denmark.
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Jack Clegg on his award of the RACI's Jim O'Donnell Travel Award for 2007.
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Dr Adam Cawley on receiving the Manfred Donike Medal for excellence in Sports Anti-Doping Research.
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David Sangster, Honorary Associate. The Polymer Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute has renamed its biennial achievement award "The David Sangster Polymer Science Achievement Award". David is "an elder statesman of the Australasian polymer science community who has made exemplary contributions to the field of polymer radiation chemistry and emulsion polymerisation and has nurtured many generations of research students at the University of Sydney.
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Professor Thomas Maschmeyer on his award of the Le Fevre Medal by the Australian Academy of Sciences. This Medal recognises the leading physical scientist under the age of forty.
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The Schools of Chemistry and Molecular and Microbial Biosciences are delighted to report that Emeritus Professor Noel Hush has been awarded the 2007 Welch Award in Chemistry in recognition of his contributions to understanding electron transfer and molecular electronics. Details of the award are available at the Welch Foundation website .
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Professor Peter Lay on his election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
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Dr Craig Marshall on his award of the J G Russell Award of the Australian Academy of Science. This award is aimed at financially helping talented younger researchers in the basic sciences as a token of the community's regard for them.
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Dr Peter Rutledge who has been awarded the RACI Organic Chemistry Division Lectureship for Recently Appointed Staff for 2007. Peter will be giving lectures at various centres around Australia.
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Mr Dominik Konkolewicz, PhD student, on winning the best poster prize at SCM-3, the International Symposium on Separation and Characterisation of Macromolecules.
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Mr Stephen Butler on winning the best poster prize at ICHC21, the International Congress for Heterocyclic Chemistry.
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Dr Greg Sandala, Research Associate, who shared the Dean's Prize for the PhD thesis from the RSC, ANU.
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Ms Alexandra Yeung and Mr Justin Read on their award of both an RSC Special Grant and a Travel Award from the RACI NSW Chemical Education Group to support their attendance at the joint NZASE/NZIC/RACI ChemEd007 Conference.
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Mr Stephen Rowling, PhD student, for his prize poster (Physical Chemistry) at the Organic & Physical Chemistry Conference in Adelaide.
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Ms Natasha Sciortino, PhD student, for the student seminar prize and Mr Sam Duyker, PhD student, for the student poster prize at CRYSTAL XXV, the 25th Meeting of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand.
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Hydrogen storage gets a boost. Congratulations to Professor Cameron Kepert and his coworkers who have prepared a copper benzenetricarboxylate MOF and used neutron powder diffraction to study D2 adsorption (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 15578). The data revealed six distinct D2 adsorption sites in the framework, with sites at Cu2+ atoms occupied first, followed by nonmetal sites in smaller pores and then in larger pores. The study provides a very detailed structural understanding of the way in which D2 loading occurs.
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Emeritus Professor Hans Freeman on his award of the Australian Academy of Sciences' David Craig Medal for Chemistry for 2007. This medal recognises contributions of a high order to any branch of chemistry by active researchers.
