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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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Jonathan Morris joins the School

A warm welcome to Jonathan Morris who joins the School as an Associate Professor. Jonathan's research interests centre on the synthesis of biologically active natural products and he will be involved in the new Medicinal Chemistry undergraduate program.

School of Chemistry Staff win more Awards

Congratulations to Anna Choy on being awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Pall Thordarson for a Young Investigator Award at the International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanins. And congratulations to Anne Ayres for winning a Staff Excellence award for Excellence in Support for Teaching Outcomes.

Chemistry@UNSW ranks in the global top 100 - Shanghai's Jiao Tong Index

UNSW is one of only three Australian universities ranked in the global top 100 for Chemistry, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), an internationally recognised benchmarking of universities and their disciplines. ARWU annually grades more than 1000 institutes on six objective indicators: the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific, the number of articles published in the journals Nature and Science, the number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index and per capita performance with respect to the size of the institution.

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.

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.

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.