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Congratulations to Professor Michelle Coote on been appointed as the first Australian Associate Editor of the premier Chemistry journal, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, replacing Professor Don Truhlar who retires from JACS at the end of this year.
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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".
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ANU graduate Ellen Cliff has been named the Queensland Rhodes Scholar for 2017 and will head to Oxford in September next year.
Ms Cliff, who graduated in July with a Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) in Chemistry and Marine Science, will use her scholarship to complete a PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.
"I grew up in Queensland and completed my schooling there so I am both thrilled and honoured to be named the Queensland Rhodes Scholar for 2017," she said.
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A new super-dielectric material with widespread potential energy storage applications has recently been developed in the Liu and Withers groups at RSC. The work is reported in a paper published in Nature Materials.
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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.
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Before the Research School of Chemistry opened in 1967 Australia did not have a chemical research institute that matched the quality of international institutions.
Students of chemistry traditionally travelled to the United Kingdom or USA to study for their PhD and for postdoctoral appointments. It was this challenge that drove the building of the RSC.
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ANU Future Fellow Dr Nicholas Cox has been awarded the Robin Hill Award from the International Society of Photosynthetic Research.
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ANU has won $500,000 in new funding for innovation in the 2016-17 CBR Innovation Development Fund.
The funding will support four ANU projects, from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Research School of Chemistry and Research School of Physics and Engineering.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt said capturing more than a third of the $1.45 million funding recognises the work on innovation being done at ANU.
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An international study led by The Australian National University (ANU) will help underpin the development of next-generation medical treatments and industrial applications such as removing pesticides from waterways.
Lead researcher Associate Professor Colin Jackson said the study significantly improved scientific understanding of the way that enzymes can change their function.
Enzymes are the molecular machines that speed up chemical reactions in biology and are required for many medical and industrial innovations.