Congratulations to Dr Andrew Gilbert on receiving the 2017 Wormit Award. The Wormit Award was established to recognize excellence in the development of new methods and algorithms in the area of electronic structure and for implementing these methods in state-of-the art computer codes within the Q-Chem open teamware community project.  One award is given each year and includes a certificate and prize of US$500.  It commemorates contributions of Dr.

Congratulations to Professor Michelle Coote on being awarded The HG Smith Medal for 2016. The HG Smith Medal is the premier research award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and is awarded for “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". 

Understanding how and why chemical reactions occur has always been of huge importance. In particular, chemical reactions are essential to the development of many of the materials that surround us such as plastics and functional materials.
While we have great knowledge of these processes we still have a long way to go. One researcher at the Research School of Chemistry — Professor Michelle Coote — alongside her research team, are making leaps and bounds in our understanding of chemical reactions.