Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Congrats Ron!

Ron succesfully transfered to the Ph.D in Chemistry program!

 

 

 

 

Monday, November 3, 2014

Welcome to PDF Markus and undergraduate student Kaitlyn!

Meet our newest group members, post doctoral fellow, Markus Griesser and UROP student Kaitlyn Margison. Markus is from Vöcklabruck, Austria and Kaitlyn is from Brampton!

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Welcome to our new graduate student - Omkar and undergraduate students - Kareem, YuXuan and Derek

Meet our newest group members, graduate student: Omkar Zilka, Honours students: YuXuan Lin and Kareem Harrison and undergraduate student: Derek Meng. Omkar is from South Porcupine (Northern Ontario), YuXuan is from Cornwall, Kareem is from Brampton and Derek is from Ottawa. Welcome all!

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Meghan defended and submitted her M.Sc. Thesis!

Congrats Meghan! Best of luck in your future endeavours!

 

 

 

 

Monday, December 16, 2013

Congrats to JP and Zosia

JP and Zosia both successfully transfered to the Ph.D. Program.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Welcome to our new grad students – Alex and Ron

Meet our newest group members, graduate students Alex Wright and Ron Shah. Both are from the Ottawa region. Welcome!

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Welcome to our new Honours students – Elise, Sarah and Shelby

Meet our newest undergraduate group members, Elise Malek-Adamian, Sarah Pietrkowski and Shelby Allison. Welcome!

 

 

 

 

 

June 16th-20th 2013

Derek was the chair of the 6th-Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry in Vancouver, BC.

Several group members and other University of Ottawa graduate students had the opportuniy to attend the meeting located on the beautiful campus of UBC.

 

 

 

 

 

​Monday, April 8th, 2013

Derek delivers a lecture at the ACS spring meeting in honour of his Ph.D. advisor, Prof. Ned Porter (left), winner of the 2013 James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry.

Shown also is Prof. Bernd Giese (Fribourg) and Prof. Larry Marnett (Vanderbilt).

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Derek delivers plenary lectures at 2013 RACI Organic Symposia

To cap off his stay in Australia, Derek delivers plenary lectures at each of the stops of the 2012 Royal Australian Chemical Institute Organic Symposia – Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.



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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Derek departs for three months as Visiting Prof. in Australia

Derek will be a visiting professor in Professor Mick Sherburn’s group in the Research School of Chemistry of the Australia National University in Canberra.













Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Welcome to our new grad students – J-P, Zosia and Nadia

Meet our newest group members, graduate students J-P. Chauvin, Nadia Hassani and Zosia Zielinski. J-P. is an Ottawa native, while Nadia and Zosia are from Toronto and PEI, respectively.  Welcome!











Sunday, August 19, 2012

Derek co-hosts Beckwith Memorial Symposium at Philadelphia ACS Meeting

Derek and Igor Alabugin (Florida State) co-host a symposium in honour of the late Athel Beckwith, a pioneer of organic free radical chemistry. Learn about Athel’s life and his many contributions to chemistry here.



 







​Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Derek lectures at the 11th ISOFR
In beautiful Bern, Switzerland, Derek delivers a lecture entitled: “Maximizing the Efficacy of Phenolic & Aminic Antioxidants: Just Add Nitrogen!”. Shown is a photo of Derek and Corey Stephenson (Boston), enjoying some Swiss beer in Zurich after the conference.





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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Jay defends his Ph.D.!

Congratulations, Dr. Jason J. Hanthorn! The first Ph.D. student of The Pratt Group certainly blazed many trails... Best of luck in his new position at Lubrizol Corp.