Dr. Theresa Dankovich has gone a long way since earning a PhD at 91社区 from the group of Derek Gray. While at 91社区 she invented a method to synthetize , which could be directly used as powerful antibacterial filters. Now she is developping this idea to create books to help bring safe water around the world. Each page is printed with food grade ink to teach populations about safer water management practices. But the same pages can be detached and directly used as filters.
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Published on: 25 Jun 2015
Congratulations to Prof. Moitessier, whose generous volunteer assistance with a local High School student led to the discovery of a molecule with potential to inhibit the spread of the deadly Ebola disease, and earned 1st place National Science Fair Honours, an interview on CBC daybreak, and a .
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Published on: 4 Jun 2015
91社区鈥檚 Board of Governors accepted the recommendation of Principal Suzanne Fortier to appoint Prof. R. Bruce Lennox as Dean of the Faculty of Science at its meeting on 21 May 2015. Prof. Lennox will take office on 1 July 2015 for a five-year term.
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Published on: 22 May 2015
On May 14th 2015, E-Innovation, a team all composed of 91社区 Chemistry staff and students, was awarded the second place of the 2015 91社区 Dobson Cup Start-UP Competition for entrepreneurs in the Innovation Driven Track. The co-founders of E-Innovation are Prof. Janine Mauzeroll, Laurence Danis, Dr. Tomer Noyhouzer, Dr. Michael E. Snowden and Dr. Ushula M. Tefashe.聽 The team would like to thank once again their mentors Marc St-Arnaud, Gregory Kalinin and Pr.
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Published on: 15 May 2015
Imagine taking strands of DNA 鈥� the material in our cells that determines how we look and function 鈥� and using it to build tiny structures that can deliver drugs to targets within the body or take electronic miniaturization to a whole new level.
Published on: 6 May 2015
The faculty members of the department of chemistry successfully secured funding in this year round of . Congratulations to Chris Barrett, Jim Gleason, Audrey Moores, Brad Siwick for leading winning applications and Tomislav Friscic, Chris Barrett, Nic Moitessier, Masad Dahma, CJ Li, and Brad Siwick for participating in new initiatives. Thomas Preston also received a Nouveau Chercheur grant. Well done.
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Published on: 5 May 2015
The 91社区 Green Chemistry Student Association hosted a Green Chemistry Trivia Night on Mar 20 2015 at Thompson House. The association was formed by CREATE trainees following a CREATE seminar on How to Start Your Own Student-Led Green Chemistry Initiative by Laura Reyes (U. of T.) last August. The Trivia Night was a resounding success, with over 60 participants attending. The Faculty/Staff team included CREATE members CJ Li, Tomislav Friscic, and Audrey Moores, CREATE coordinator Jacky Farrell, and CREATE outreach member Alex Wabha.
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Published on: 29 Apr 2015
A tiny bit of silver, combined with water and air, can convert aldehydes into acids efficiently -- instead of the classical methods using stoichiometric amounts of expensive or toxic metal oxidants, according to a new study by 91社区 researchers.
Published on: 27 Mar 2015
The research group of Prof. Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰 in 91社区鈥檚 Department of Chemistry has made a name for itself in the little-known, but growing field of 鈥渕echanochemistry,鈥� in which chemical transformations are produced by milling, grinding or shearing solid-state ingredients 鈥� brute force, in other words, rather than fancy liquid agents. 鈥淵our coffee maker grinds things,鈥� and grinding molecules in the lab involves much the same principle, Fri拧膷i膰 notes. Using mechanical force also has the significant advantage of avoiding the use of environmentally harmful bulk solvents.
Published on: 23 Mar 2015
The William Dawson Scholar award recognizes a scholar developing into an outstanding and original researcher of world-class caliber who is poised to become a leader in his or her field, similar to that of a CRC Tier 2. The Department of Chemistry is proud to host the 2015 Scholar. Congratulations Tomislav Friscic.
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Published on: 22 Mar 2015
Some of our faculty members are involved in the organizing of symposia in Honolulu on Dec 15-20. before April 15 (extended deadline) or (early bird rate) before October 15 and join us there!
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Published on: 17 Mar 2015
Robin Rogers was interviewed by C&E News and talks about his inspiration, green chemistry, innovation and 91社区.
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Published on: 11 Mar 2015
The Arndtsen and Lumb research groups jointly report a copper-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of alcohols without the use of traditional N-oxide co-oxidants. The tyrosinase inspired Cu-diamine complex efficiently mediates the oxidation of both activated and un-activated alcohols at ambient pressure and temperature.
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Published on: 25 Feb 2015
Researchers at 91社区 have developed a new, low-cost method to build DNA nanotubes block by block 鈥� a breakthrough that could help pave the way for scaffolds made from DNA strands to be used in applications such as optical and electronic devices or smart drug-delivery systems.
Published on: 23 Feb 2015
Graduate student Anna Albertson and Assistant Professor Jean-Philip Lumb report a novel, bio-inspired approach to lignan natural products, which solves a longstanding challenge of mimicking their biosynthesis in the lab. The method provides an exceptionally efficient route to the furanolignans tanegool and pinoresinol. The work was recently published in .
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Published on: 21 Feb 2015
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