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Tuesday, 26 Sep 2017
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Professor Michelle Coote, a graduate of the University of New South Wales, joined the Research School of Chemistry after a varied career in a range of chemical fields.
“I studied industrial chemistry at the University of New South Wales and had various industrial placements, including a year in a paint laboratory at Rhom and Haas in Geelong,” Michelle explains. “I became interested in polymer chemistry and kinetics and did both honours and my PhD at University of New South Wales.”

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Wednesday, 20 Sep 2017
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Headline-grabbing crack-downs on drug abuse in sports industries, discovering new chemical compounds, developing malaria medications and potential medical methods for prenatal diagnoses.
This is the life of ANU Associate Professor Malcolm McLeod, whose most recent work involved creating new chemical methods for detecting doping, leading to a clean-up in the greyhound industry of steroid abuse.
For years, dopers may have been avoiding prosecution because there was no way of proving that animals were being drugged.

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Monday, 18 Sep 2017
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The ANU recently hosted the world renowned science communicator Dr Peter Wothers of Cambridge University, who gave a series of free science demonstrations titled Burning Issues: The Chemistry of Fire and Flame.
The interactive shows focussed on a series of principles and misconceptions about everyday chemicals and gases, illustrating key concepts about combustion.
Over a thousand people enjoyed the demonstrations over the week of shows, which appealed to both young curious minds and amateur scientists.

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Monday, 11 Sep 2017
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Congratulations to Dr Luke Connal, who will joining the RSC later this year on being selected as one of C&EN's (Chemical & Engineering News) Talented 12. For more information please see http://talented12.cenmag.org/

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Monday, 11 Sep 2017
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The World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) is the leading organisation in that field.  WATOC organises a congress every three years and, at the most recent event in Munich last month, more than 1500 delegates from dozens of countries participated.  Peter Gill has served as the vice-president of WATOC since 2011 and, during the Closing Ceremony in Munich, he was installed as the president for a six-year term until 2023.

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Thursday, 13 Jul 2017
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The Research School of Chemistry featured prominently at the ANU Graduation Ceremony on the afternoon of Wednesday 12th July with 13 students graduating with their PhD degrees. Congratulations to:
Dr Noor Shah
Dr Edwin Martinez
Dr Aymeric Cervi
Dr Ben Clifton
Dr Nansook Hong
Dr Hye Kim
Dr Richmond Lee
Dr Elaaf Mohamed
Dr Ben Noble
Dr Elena Sugrue
Dr Chris Waller
Dr Jason Whitfield
Dr Nurul Zakaria
Congratulations!

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Monday, 10 Jul 2017
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The popular science textbook Chemistry in the Marketplace, authored by Ben Selinger and Russell Barrow saw the 6th Edition launched on Thursday, June 29th at the ANU’s science teaching building lecture theatre.  Attended by around 170 guests the event drew in alumni, new and old, in addition to many teachers from the Canberra region for whom the previous editions were a trusted friend.  The event was emceed by Prof.

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Wednesday, 28 Jun 2017
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An international team of scientists say disrupting the ability of insects to smell the scent of food and potential mates may offer a way to protect humans from deadly diseases such as malaria and agricultural crops from pests.
Lead researcher Faisal Younus from ANU and CSIRO said insects' sense of smell played a critical role in the transmission of disease to hundreds of millions of people and the damage to food crops worth billions of dollars each year.
He said the research improved understanding of how insects process odours to find food and suitable mates.   

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Monday, 12 Jun 2017
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Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Colin Jackson and Prof. Martin Banwell who, with Beta Therapeutics Pty Ltd, have been awarded $420,000 under the ARC Linkage Projects Scheme for a project entitled 'Understanding the molecular basis of heparanase function'. This project aims to advance our limited understanding of the molecular and thermodynamic basis of heparanase function through investigating its conformational dynamics and the energetics of ligand binding, as well as by synthesising inhibitors to probe its activity.

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