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Colloquium Success for Chemistry Post-Graduate Students
Caytlin Boylan, Clara Evans and Farhad Mohammed were all awarded prizes in the recent Colloquium held in UCD
Date: Monday, 27 June 2022
Post Graduate Success at Electroanalytical Conference
3rd Year PhD Student Colm McKeever was awarded 2nd place in the best oral presentation at the 18th International Conference on Electroanalysis (ESEAC) which was held in Vilnius, Lithuania from the 5th to the 9th of June 2022.
Date: Sunday, 12 June 2022
Post Graduate Awards 2022
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Chemistry Postgraduate Awards, Mr. Conor Wynne, Mr. Carl Fogarty and Ms. Caytlin Boylan. This year's award ceremony was held in person, on campus for the first time since 2019.
Date: Friday, 08 April 2022
First face to face showcase for the Virtual Labs Project
The first face to face showcase for the Virtual Labs Project took place on February 26th, 2022 on Maynooth Campus.
Date: Monday, 07 March 2022
Brewing & Distilling Consultation Event
A consultation event was held in Renehan Hall on February 26th to gain insight into the creation of an exciting new Micro-credential on Analytical Techniques of Brewing & Distilling.
Date: Monday, 07 March 2022
Irish Research Council - Research ally nomination
Congratulations to Dr. Eithne Dempsey - one of the Irish Research Council awardees of the inaugural Research Ally Prizes
Date: Wednesday, 08 December 2021
Exam Success
Congratulations to Ms. Barbara Woods who recently passed Module 1 of her Diploma in Distilling awarded by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling
Date: Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Athena SWAN Ireland Award Ceremony 20 October 2021
Athena SWAN Ireland Award Ceremony 20 October 2021: Dept. Chemistry Self-Assessment Team for Athena SWAN Bronze award. Photo: Daniel Balteanu / Maynooth University.
Date: Wednesday, 20 October 2021
VIP article “Reversible Dissociation of a Dialumene” from the groups of Dr Mike Cowley (UoE) and Dr Tobias Krämer (MU) in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Dialumenes are neutral Al(I) compounds that feature Al=Al multiple bonds. The Cowley group has now successfully isolated and characterised a new amidophosphine-supported dialumene, which was obtained from reduction of a Al(II) diiododialane with Na/K alloy.
Date: Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 Winners
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 has been awarded to Prof Benjamin List and Prof David WC MacMillan for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis, a precise new tool for molecular construction.
Date: Tuesday, 12 October 2021