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Congratulations to all Chemistry Graduates
Chemistry had 7 PhD students graduate and 30 honours students!
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Last week, the RSC celebrated the great work of its HDR students with a wonderful day of presentations in the Birch Lecture Theatre. A good crowd was on hand to listen to thirteen second-year HDR students who presented their research in an eight-minute format, during which they all talked about the personal motivation for choosing their PhD project. The presentations were uniformly excellent and there was a great vibe during the day, with a lot of interesting questions from the audience.
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Congratulations to Dr Paul Carr on his 25 year service award. The 25 year service award celebrates a staff's commitment and contribution to the University.
Paul was awarded along with 27 other ANU staff who are celebrating 25 years of service and one staff member who is celebrating 40 years.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt congratulated all recipients of the 2017 awards.
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Congratulations to Liam Burt on being awarded the RACI Masson Memorial Medal. Liam is a Summer Scholar at the RSC.
This Award has been established as a memorial to the late Sir David Orme Masson, Founder of the RACI. The aim of the award is to assist a financial member of the RACI to proceed in further studies in chemistry, either as an Honours year, or in their first postgraduate year of study.
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Congratulations to Professor Mark Humphrey on being awarded the RACI Leighton Memorial Medal
The Leighton Memorial Medal commemorates the distinguished career of A E Leighton. As a staunch supporter of the RACI, Leighton carried out an enormous amount of work to secure the RACI Royal Charter. The Leighton Memorial Medal is the RACI’s most prestigious medal and is awarded in recognition of eminent services to chemistry in Australia in the broadest sense, including research, technology and service to the RACI, public service and national leadership.
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The RSC was represented at the RACI NSW organic chemistry symposium 2017, 29 November, University of Sydney, by Kelsey Horvath, Nick Magann, Natalie Shadwell and Maddie Sowden. All four gave well-presented posters, with congratulations to Maddie Sowden won a best poster prize (one of 3 winners from over 60 poster presenters), but all four presenters were winners!
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Junna Hayashi knows exactly what she wants to do: discover mechanisms and treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.
Junna Hayashi first came to the ANU Research School of Chemistry at the end of 2015 as a Summer Scholar. Continuing research related to her honours project at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, she went straight to work studying proteins implicated in Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders – including some forms of Alzheimer’s disease.
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ANU is marking the Research School of Chemistry's 50th anniversary with the unveiling of a new sculpture.
The Research School commissioned painter Dr Julie Brooke from the ANU School of Art & Design and sculptor Geoff Farquhar-Still to create the work called Translation.
The work is an abstract rendition of the many aspects of modern chemistry.
"The Research School of Chemistry is an extraordinary building, and we wanted to make something that belonged there," Dr Brooke said.
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A new study led by ANU has shed light on how the earliest forms of life evolved on Earth about four billion years ago.
In a major advance on previous work, the study found a compound commonly used in hair bleach, hydrogen peroxide, made the eventual emergence of life possible.
Lead researcher Associate Professor Rowena Ball from ANU said hydrogen peroxide was the vital ingredient in rock pores around underwater heat vents that set in train a sequence of chemical reactions that led to the first forms of life.