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Canadian Chemistry Olympiad (CCO) selects and organizes the Canadian team each year to go the International Chemistry Olympiad. In the ICHO 2014, held in Hanoi, Vietnam from July 20th to 29th, all the four high school students in the Canadian team won medals, two with silver and 2 with bronze.  Todd Huang, son of the departments MSc graduates won a bronze.  

Final results:http://icho2014.hus.edu.vn/Results...

Congratulations to Rodney Smith who has received a Faculty of Science Postdoctoral Travel Award.

As part of UBC's ongoing efforts to support young research talent, the Faculty of Graduate Studies and UBC Science launched this award for Postdoctoral Fellows in 2011. It is designed to assist PDFs with travel to conferences in order to present research performed at UBC. Approximately four awards are...

Isotopes for Science and Medicine (IsoSiM) CREATE program is seeking excellent, highly motivated students that want to work in isotope related fields.

The IsoSiM CREATE program will provide enriched training experiences in the production, preparation, and application of nuclear isotopes for science and medicine in world-class collaborative research environments.

Isotopes are used in fields from preclinical medical research,...

2013 Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad

Congratulations to Zippo Liu, Perrin Research Group, and Yuan You, Bertram Research Group for being awarded the 2013 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. The award is sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Education and further encourages international students to return to China for work or to serve the country in other channels after receiving their degree abroad. Only those with...

Dr. Alexis Delano Ortiz Bawagan completed his doctoral study at UBC in Chemistry in 1987. He passed away March 8th at the age of 55. Below is his obituary that was linked to in the Ottawa Citizen.

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Life Story: Carleton prof Dr. Alexis Delano Ortiz Bawagan spoke truth to power

Dr. Alexis Delano Ortiz Bawagan

Born: July 8, 1958 in Laguna, Philippines

Died: March 8, 2014 in Gatineau

OTTAWA — Even by Filipino standards, Alexis was born short,...

In Memoriam of Dr.Peter WassellJuly 1952 to April 2014

Born in Wolverhampton, England in 1952, Peter received his B.Sc (Honours) Chemistry from Exeter University, England in 1973.  He then earned his PhD from UBC in 1981. He later went on to teach chemistry to our first year students, and run the inorganic laboratories. Peter was also an enthusiastic member of the Chemistry Magic Team in the late 90’s.  Peter was a long time and valued member of the UBC Department of Chemistry. 

2014 Killam Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr. Stephen Withers for being awarded the 2014 Canada Council for the Arts Killam Fellowship. 

Dr. Stephen Withers is a world leader in the emerging field of engineering carbohydrate-modifying enzymes. He proposes a creative and original approach in his project, Development and use of ultra-high-throughput screens for directed evolution and metagenomics. He will go beyond the...

Drum roll please....The 2013 Chemistry Department TA Award recipients are:  
Zhengu Chen, Leanne Racicot, Amber Shukaliak, Andrea Terpstra and David Weekes.

Congratulations! 

The 2014 winner of the CIC Environment Division R&D Award

William R. Cullen received a PhD from Cambridge University in 1959. He joined the Department of Chemistry at University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1958. He was promoted to professor in 1969 and received the CSC Noranda Award in 1974. In 1998, he became professor emeritus at UBC and adjunct professor at the Royal Military College of Canada in 2000. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His research has focused on...