Congratulations to Professor Michelle Coote on being awarded the RACI HG Smith Medal for 2016.

The Medal recognize contributions to the development of some branch of chemical sciences. The Medal shall be awarded annually to a member of the RACI who, in the opinion of the RACI Board, has contributed most to the development of some branch of chemical science; this contribution will be judged by research work published or accepted for publication during the ten years, or equivalent relative to opportunity, immediately preceding the award.

Dr Jamie Hicks was awarded the Springer International Thesis Award. This highly prestigious prize is awarded annually for the best PhD theses in the world. Jamie's thesis was published in Springer.

The medal, bearing the words "For a Thesis on Chemical Research", is designed to give recognition of outstanding achievement in chemistry and to promote chemical communication.

The Board of the RACI awards the Cornforth Medal in honour of the work of Sir John Cornforth AC CBE FRS - an Australian-British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975.

The medal is awarded to the candidate who is judged to have completed the most outstanding PhD thesis in a branch of chemistry, chemical science or chemical technology under the auspices of an Australian University; and whose degree has been approved, but not necessarily conferred, in the previous 13 months.

The award requires nomination by the deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) of an Australian University or person holding the equivalent office at the University. The nominated candidate is required to be a current member for a minimum of one year.

There is only one medal awarded each year, and if the committee considers that none of the theses submitted reach an appropriate standard, no award will be made.

Congratulations to Dr Christoph Nitsche on being awarded the PhD Prize for Medicinal Chemsitry from the German Chemcial Society (GDCh) in 2015.

Congratulations to Professor Michelle Coote on receiving the 2015 Pople Medal.

This is the Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical & Computational Chemists (APATCC) prize for an outstanding younger theoretical/computational chemist. The selection is the result of a secret ballot of the entire APATCC Board and is highly competitive. The award will be presented at the APCTCC-7 Conference to be held in Taiwan in January 2016. Congratulations to Michelle on this richly deserved recognition

Congratulations to Dr Christoph Nitsche on being awarded the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 2015-2018.

Feodor Lynen Early Career Fellowships are highly competitive awards made by the Humboldt Foundation to early career post-doctoral researchers (up to four years after completing a doctorate) to carry out research with a Humboldt host in an institution outside Germany for 6 to 24 months.