Brasch Group News 2017
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December 2017: Ruth Cink is awarded a Dodd-Walls Centre travel award of $1,500 to allow her to travel to Hong Kong to carry out experiments in the lab of Professor David Lee Phillips. Congratulations, Ruth!
November 2017: Ruth attends a Future Leaders Program hosted by the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. Ruth also presents a poster at the Institute’s annual symposium held in Wellington.
November 2017: Nicola, Ruth, Lynn and Yue attend the 24th International Society of Pure and Applied Coordination Chemistry Symposium (SPACC 24) at the University of Auckland. Ruth and Lynn present posters and Nicola gives a Keynote lecture. Ruth receives a prize for her poster presentation!
November 2017: Ruth is involved in Science Wananga, a three-day science experience for Maori secondary school students, in Dunedin.
September 2017: Ruth presents a poster at the School of Chemical Science’s Research Showcase, University of Auckland, and receives an Honourable Mention for her poster presentation.
August 2017: Yue Shen joins our group. Yue comes to us from Shanghai Institute of Technology, and will complete the last year of her AUT-SIT BSc degree at AUT. Welcome, Yue!
August 2017: Joe graduates with his PhD! Joe has accepted a postdoc position with Professor Mark Meyerhoff, University of Michigan. Congratulations, Joe!
July 2017: Joe and Ruth attend the Gordon Research conference on Photochemistry, in Maine, USA. Both Joe and Ruth present posters, and Joe is also selected to give an oral presentation on his research!
July 2017: Joe successfully defends his PhD thesis! Congratulations, Joe!
April 2017: Vinay successfully defends his PhD PGR9 proposal!
April 2017: Joe is awarded the Jay and Carol Taylor Graduate Student Research Award for Excellence in Research from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Kent State University. Congratulations, Joe!
February 2017: Lynn begins her Honors project in the lab. Great to have you with us for another year, Lynn!
February 2017: Ruth is awarded a Dodd-Walls Centre Travel Award of $1,500 to attend the Gordon Research conference on Photochemistry in Lewiston, Maine, USA in July. Congratulations, Ruth!
January 2017: Ruth gives an invited talk on her research at the Dodd-Walls Symposium in Dunedin.
January 2017: Nicola is invited to serve on the Editorial Board of the journal Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis.
January 2017: Dr Alex Brito visits us from the lab of Professor Lindsay Allen at UC Davis, USA, and gives a talk on a new approach to detect functional vitamin B12 deficiency.