Creating a Colourful Life Mature Student Event

Saturday October 15th saw the latest ‘Creating a Colourful Life’ event being held for mature students and their families to come along to and take part in lots of different activities based around colour and pigments.

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September 2011 – Science illuminates EID celebration at local primary school

Adults and children alike were fascinated by luminescent rocks, glow in the dark materials, colour changing beads, temperature sensitive pictures and glowing security labelling on bank notes, passports and driving licences.

August 2011 – Graduates of 1966 revisited their old haunts!

Analytical team win Da Vinci 'Newcomer' award ...

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Award-winning mature student Paul Brack encourages others to consider university

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Chemistry Breakfast Network Meeting

Lecturer Dr Sian Williams represented Loughborough University at a Chemistry Breakfast Network Meeting at Humphrey Perkins High School in January, to mark 2011 as the International year of Chemistry.

Digital exhibit: e-KnowNet project

Loughborough photochemists Dr Dave Worrall and Dr Sian Williams have contributed a digital exhibit to the e-KnowNet project at http://www.sciencetweets.eu/photochemistry/exhibits/type-a-unique-slug-143/to-begin-with?target=students.  The digital exhibit describes some of their work on developing materials for solar energy conversion and is part of the photochemistry science tweets strand, which was recently awarded the International Year of Chemistry 2011 label. The e-KnowNet project, supported by the EC under the Lifelong Learning Programme, aims to develop a network enabled by information and communication technologies (ICT) in order to facilitate the flow of new scientific knowledge from the research laboratory to larger, non-expert segments of society, in forms suitable for non-formal learning.

Chemistry department comes top in National Student Survey 2010

We are delighted to announce that Loughborough University department of Chemistry came top of 37 chemistry departments in the National Student Survey 2010, with a mean score of 4.80 out of 5.

Peter Warwick, Head of Department, congratulated everyone in the department on this fantastic outcome.

ANALYTICAL RESEARCH FORUM 2010 26 – 28 July 2010 Loughborough University

The Analytical Research Forum 2010 (ARF10) is coming to Loughborough University on 26-28 July 2010 

The Analytical Research Forum is the premier Analytical Science meeting of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is an opportunity for early-stage analytical science researchers (industrial scientists, PhD students and postdoctoral fellows) to present their latest results in the context of the wider analytical science community. 
The programme organised by the ARF10 Scientific Committee, chaired by Professor Colin Creaser, will feature both poster sessions and lectures, including oral presentations from students and young researchers, as well as keynote presentations by RSC medal winners and international leaders in the field.

Further details and information on registration are available at: http://www.rsc.org/ConferencesAndEvents/RSCConferences/ARF10/index.asp

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Maths for Scientists Meeting: 26 May 2010

The Higher Education Academy UK Physical Sciences Centre is hosting a Professional Development Workshop at Loughborough University on Wednesday 26 May 2010.

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Professor Roger M Smith retires

Professor Roger Smith is retiring after 40 years of investigative work in chromatography, with research which has brought both him and Chemistry department international renown.  A meeting is being held to celebrate Roger's life and work:

Separation Science:  A Meeting to Celebrate the Retirement of Professor Roger M Smith

• Wednesday 16 December 2009, 10.30-15.45
• J001 Stanford Lecture Theatre, Loughborough University

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Attendance is free but delegates must register by December 9th by completing the registration form available here.

Alternatively, for further information and registration form please contact: Mrs Claire Lowe, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University
Email: c.l.lowe@lboro.ac.uk Tel: 01509 222581 Fax: 01509 223926

Welcome to New Staff

The Department is delighted to welcome the following new staff.

Professor Malkov and Dr Kimber will bring new dimensions to our Organic research team and we look forward to working with them to further enhance the reputation of our research and teaching. The excellent undergraduate and postgraduate recruitment during recent years has enabled us to welcome Dr Nicola Jennings and Dr Brenden Theaker to the staff as Teaching Fellows.  I have no doubt that Nicola and Brenden will make a significant contribution to increasing, even further, the high quality of teaching and student support delivered by the Department.

Peter Warwick, Head of Department

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RSC recognises new sampling technology at Loughborough's Centre for Analytical Science

A team of scientists headed by Professor Paul Thomas at Loughborough University's Centre for Analytical Science have used skin patches to investigate the biochemical profile of a person's body odour.

Information contained in skin odour may be used to diagnose, manage and assess diseases such as cancer.

Read the full article in the RSC's 'Chemical Technology'

New Centre for Analytical Science developed at Loughborough

The Department of Chemistry at Loughborough University has recently seen four new academic appointments in analytical science. Current members of the Analytical and Environmental Chemistry Section, Professor Roger M Smith, Professor Peter Warwick, Dr Barry Sharp and Dr Helen Reid, have been joined by two new chairs, Professor Colin Creaser and Professor Paul Thomas, a lecturer, Dr Nick Evans, and a senior experimental officer, Dr Jim Reynolds. These developments have led to the formation of a new centre for analytical science to be known as ‘analytical.science@loughborough’.

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Chemistry Department welcomes new staff for 2007-08

I have been delighted to welcome the following new staff to the Department over the past few months.  This significant increase in teaching and research capacity brings an invigorating new range of knowledge and experience to Loughborough and is a reflection of the success of the Department.

Peter Warwick, Head of Department

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RSC Winner

Congratulations to Stuart Aldridge for winning best oral presentation at the Royal Society of Chemistry Radiochemistry Group young researchers meeting 2006. The meeting was held at RSC HQ at Burlington House, London on 7th February 2006. Stuart was presented with a bust of Marie Curie and received a cheque for £150 and £500 funding towards a conference of his choice. He presented on his work "The Fate of Technetium in a Nuclear Waste Repository".

Department of Chemistry is Number One

Physical Science (Departments of Chemistry and Physics) at Loughborough University was rated the highest scoring subject of any institution in the country for student satisfaction in a recent National Student Survey. The Survey consisted of a questionnaire containing 21 questions and was completed by 170,000 final-year students.

The Guardian published the following table (only the top ten published here) on Thursday 22nd September 2005:

Professor Warwick, Head of the Chemistry Department says;
"The result of the Survey confirms previous findings that the teaching in the Department is second to none and that the staff of the Department are hard working, dedicated and of the highest quality."

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