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“I believe very strongly that Rod Rickards greatest lesson was to encourage me to always be inquisitive and to look at an unexpected outcome in chemistry not as a failure but as an opportunity to understand the science more deeply and even help address new problems. I have been guided by this lesson throughout my academic career”
ANU Alumni Joanne Jamie completed her PhD at the RSC in 1992. Focusing on organic chemistry, Joanne says her studies encouraged her to think about the potential positive outcomes that could be found in chemical research.
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In 1968 Professor Martin Bennett set sail for Australia, leaving his life in England to join a small burgeoning University that would soon become his new home.
“I came because I was offered a very good opportunity,” Martin explains. “I was at University College of London. I was quite happy there, but it was a little bit of a patriarchal system, and I really was feeling the need for a little bit more independence.
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“I’ve had fun.”
When asked why he’s stayed with the Research School of Chemistry for so long, that is the first thought that comes to Professor Elmars Krausz.
“I seem to have the title professor, but do I profess?,” Elmars asks. “I’d say, maybe not, I could be better described as an amateur. An amateur, from the French amour, is more somebody who loves something.”
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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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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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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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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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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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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!