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Research in the School of Chemistry covers the broad areas of molecular devices, bioactive molecules, and chemical and biological catalysis. These research areas are supported by expertise in NMR, EPR, spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, surface chemistry, neutron scattering, chemometrics, and organic synthesis. The School of Chemistry teaches about 1000 undergraduate students each semester. Our new teaching laboratories are state of the art and many courses include research projects with access to world–class facilities. Postgraduate research and coursework programs allow graduates to extend their knowledge and skills under the guidance of leading researchers. The School of Chemistry shares the Chemical Sciences building with the UNSW Analytical Centre giving easy access to high–end instrumentation including NMR, EPR, electron microscopy, surface analysis, and mass spectrometry. The School is also well equipped for UV/Vis/IR spectroscopy, chromatography, and synthesis. Sydney is renowned for its beaches, Opera House, harbour, and sporting events. Bondi beach is a few kilometres from UNSW; Coogee beach is even closer. Entertainment venues, Chinatown, museums, and galleries in the city centre are 20 minutes from campus. The Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, have many bush walks and climbing venues.
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News and Events

Marcus Cole - our newest Young Tall Poppy.

Congratulations to Marcus Cole on the announcement of his Young Tall Poppy Award. The press release cites Marcus' outstanding research into "hydrogen storage for fuel/energy applications, and the discovery of applications for, and isolation of, heavy metals such as uranium." Marcus joins Prof. Justin Gooding and Pall Thordarson who have previously won Young Tall Poppy awards.

Science and Cinema.

The popular general education course 'Science and Cinema' will be running in December. Watch some movies, learn about the science in the movies, and debate the social and ethical issues raised. Further details are available here.

School of Chemistry leads new CSIRO Collaboration Research Cluster

On Monday October the 12th, 2009 the CSIRO Collaboration Research Cluster on "Sensor Systems for Analysis of Aquatic Environments" was launched by the NSW Chief Scientist Prof. Mary O'Kane.  The Sensor Cluster is a 9.6 million dollar initiative bringing together 6 universities and 3 CSIRO Flagships led by Prof. Justin Gooding from the School of Chemistry at UNSW. More details on the research news page.

Justin Gooding wins both a Eureka Prize and a Future Fellowship!

Only recently we offered congratulations to Professor Justin Gooding for winning the 2009 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, one of Australia's most prestigious science awards. We are now extraordinarily pleased to congratulate Justin for being awarded an inaugural Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr described The ARC Future Fellowships as being for "our best and brightest" to allow them to "continue their world-class research." Congratulations Justin! 

John Stride promoted to Associate Professor

Congratulations to John Stride on his promotion to Associate Professor. John's group recently devised a unique method for synthesizing graphene in large quantities, a discovery which was listed amongst the most important in Chemistry for 2008.

Draft timetable for Summer Semester.

Contact details for further information, and the draft timetable for CHEM1021 running in summer semester, are now available here.

School of Chemistry Newsletter (April-June 2009).

Volume 3, issue 2 of the School of Chemistry Newsletter highlights prizes awarded to our students, an honourary degree for Emeritus Professor Michael Paddon-Row, and presentations by our staff and students at conferences all around the world.

Bachelor of Medicinal Chemistry - A New Undergraduate Degree Program in 2010.

Medicinal Chemistry is an exciting, rapidly expanding area within the broad discipline of Chemistry that has seen enormous growth globally and also here in Australia. Medicinal Chemists are involved in all phases of the development of new drugs, from the earliest concept stage, right through to clinical applications. The new Bachelor of Medicinal Chemistry (BMedChem) program at UNSW is taught jointly by the Faculties of Science and Medicine, providing all students with the necessary breadth of understanding to be an excellent medicinal chemist contributing to drug design, synthesis, and testing. Full details are on the BMedChem web page.

5th Australian Organometallics Discussion Meeting to be held at UNSW.

The 5th Australian Organometallics Discussion Meeting to be held at UNSW in January 2010. Invited speakers include: Richard A. Andersen (UC Berkeley), Simon Duckett (University of York), Odile Eisenstein (Université Montpellier), Michael George (Nottingham), and Philip Mountford (Oxford). See our conference web page for links to the conference brochure and website.