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| ACT Mass Spectrometry Symposium 2009 | Sep 29, 2009 | |
| The Symposium is free on Thursday, 8 October 2009 from 8.55 am to 5.30 pm. REGISTRATION is essential: email: hocart@rsbs.anu.edu.au Please include your name and work address |
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| Science Photography Competition 2009 | Sep 15, 2009 | |
 Enter photos depicting one or more of the following:* Field trips * At work in the laboratory * Student social life * Scientific shots * Technology in the raw There is an overall prize of $500 for the best photograph, and the winner of each category will receive a prize of $100. |
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| Dogs, drugs and detection | Sep 03, 2009 | |
 A new method for catching sports drug cheating is shaking up the greyhound industry and could have major applications for the human world too. Dr Mal McLeod, from the Research School of Chemistry at ANU is an organic chemist who’s not averse to spending a day at the dog track. |
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| Radical wisdom for an age-old problem | Sep 01, 2009 | |
 A team of scientists, led by Professor Chris Easton from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology at The Australian National University has discovered that amino acids are working hard to protect our bodies from the ageing process caused by being exposed to free radicals and oxygen. |
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| National Science Week 2009 | Aug 25, 2009 | |
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ANU was heavily involved in National Science Week again this year. It hosted a public lecture by visiting Cambridge University chemist, Dr Peter Wothers and much more including the Science Spectacular at the CSIRO Discovery Centre. |
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| Nanotubes help to solve desalination problem | Aug 24, 2009 | |
 Researchers Dr Tamsyn Hilder, Dr Dan Gordon and group leader Professor Shin-Ho Chung from the Computational Biophysics Group at the Research School of Biology at ANU have come up with a way to eliminate all salt from seawater using nanotubes made from boron and nitrogen atoms that will make the process up to five times faster. |
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| New Chemical Science Hub | May 22, 2009 | |
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A recent $90 million grant for a Chemical Sciences Hub will allow for two new Chemistry buildings, a new Science teaching building, and a combined Sciences workshop, which will double student capacity in Chemistry at ANU. |
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| Congratulations to Professor Mark Humphrey and Professor Rob Stranger | Dec 18, 2008 | |
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Congratulations to Professor Rob Stranger and Professor Mark Humphrey on the award of an Australia-China Special Fund Grant for Scientific and Technological Cooperation. The funding - one of only two grants awarded this year - will help establish a Joint Research Centre for Functional Materials. |
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| 2009 NHMRC/ARC Grant Successes | Nov 28, 2008 | |
 The recent announcement of grant successes for ARC Discovery ($21M), ARC LIEF ($4M), Linkage International ($200K), Linkage ($2.6M) and NHMRC Project Grants ($4.5M) and Research Fellowship schemes has seen CMBE and CPS combined win over $32M in new research funding for the next 3-5 years. Congratulations to all grant recipients! |
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| Congratulations Associate Professor Michael Sherburn | Nov 20, 2008 | |
 Congratulations to Associate Professor Michael Sherburn winner of the A. J. Birch Medal for 2008, the premier award of the Organic Division of the RACI. Mick will receive his medal and present the Birch Medal lecture on the 11th of December 2008 at the ORGANIC08 conference in Hobart. |
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