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Professor Thomas Wirth

Prestigious award for Cardiff chemist

9 May 2016

Professor Thomas Wirth wins prestigious award from the Royal Society of Chemistry

Drs Lois Luk and Yuhsuan Tsai

Double success for Wellcome Trust funding

3 May 2016

Double success for Wellcome Trust funding

Athena SWAN Bronze Award

School successfully retains Athena SWAN Award

28 April 2016

The School of Chemistry has successfully retained its Athena SWAN Bronze Award.

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Chemistry professors elected to Learned Society of Wales

22 April 2016

Two professors from the Cardiff University School of Chemistry have been recognised for their academic excellence by being elected to the prestigious Learned Society of Wales.

Professor Ruedi Allemann with student at Chemistry Ball

Chemistry students swap lab coats for dinner jackets

21 April 2016

Chemistry students swap lab coats for dinner jackets

MChem Chemistry student

Chemistry students shortlisted for UG of the Year Awards

20 April 2016

Two students from the School of Chemistry have been named as finalists in the TARGETjobs Undergraduate of the Year Awards 2016.

Dr. Melen Group Photo

Celebrating female role models in STEM

18 April 2016

Dr Rebecca Melen, a lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Cardiff University, is named as finalist in the Chwarae Teg 2016 Womeninspire Awards.

Mohanad Hanafy

Chemistry Student Mohanad Hanafy elected as VP for Education

31 March 2016

Mohanad Hanafy elected as VP for Education

R Melen Leverhulme news article

Leverhulme grant success for Drs Melen and Newman to investigate metal-free catalysis

24 March 2016

The Leverhulme Trust has awarded Dr Rebecca Melen and Dr Paul Newman a new Research Project Grant.

Professor Graham Hutchings

Professor Graham Hutchings 65th birthday symposium

18 March 2016

On 16th March the School of Chemistry held a scientific symposium to celebrate the 65th birthday of Professor Graham Hutchings.

Professor Angela Casini

Prestigious Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship to Prof. Angela Casini

11 March 2016

Prof. Angela Casini from Cardiff School of Chemistry has been awarded a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship from the Technical University of Munich

Georgeite mineral

Ground breaking synthesis of the rare mineral georgeite leads to better catalysts

29 February 2016

An extremely rare mineral has been made synthetically for the very first time by researchers at Cardiff.

Clara Immerwahr Award

Dr Rebecca Melen invited to Berlin to receive the Clara Immerwahr Award

16 February 2016

Dr. Melen was selected as this year’s winner of the award for her outstanding contributions to the field of inorganic chemistry

Gold catalyst highlighted in Scientific American

29 January 2016

The current issue of Scientific American features the gold-based catalyst discovered by Prof Graham Hutchings.

Rhodri Evans

Dr Norman Lloyd Scholarship

28 January 2016

Chemistry student Rhodri Evans is the recipient of the Dr Norman Lloyd Scholarship for 2015.

Professor Graham Hutchings

Cardiff researcher among world’s ‘most influential scientific minds’

22 January 2016

Professor Graham Hutchings named on elite list of highly cited researchers in 2015

Angela Casini

Prestigious Honorary fellowship and visiting professorship awarded to Prof. Angela Casini

11 January 2016

Prof. Angela Casini, Chair of Medicinal and Bioinorganic Chemistry, has been awarded the prestigious August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship

Professor Graham Hutchings

Gold catalyst hits market in China

5 January 2016

Gold catalyst is commercialised by Johnson Matthey as world-leading experts descend on Cardiff for annual conference.

 SMorris

Steven Morris wins Staff Award

21 December 2015

Steven Morris, Senior Technician in the School of Chemistry, has been awarded “Best Colleague” award.

Cardiff University

Double Funding Success for the Molecular Synthesis Section

14 December 2015

The Leverhulme Trust has awarded Cardiff University’s School of Chemistry two separate Research Project Grants.