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School Newsletter

To mark the move into our new laboratory and office buildings the School produced the inaugural edition of a quarterly newsletter to keep you updated about activities in the School. Edited by Professor Justin Gooding, the newsletter contains profiles of staff, showcases our research activities, and has news of other activities undertaken by staff and students. Here are links to all issues of the newsletter:

New Academic Appointments

The School extends a warm welcome to Marcus Cole and Pall Thordarson who have recently joined the School. Marcus' research interests include main group hydrides and selective organic transformations, low valent rare earths in organic synthesis, and the development of functionalised N-heterocyclic carbenes. Pall (Palli) works in the broad areas of nanobiotechnology and bio-organic chemistry, with particular interest in bioelectronics, self-assembled gels, and applications of STM and AFM.

Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Lehn visits UNSW

Professor Jean-Marie Lehn visited UNSW on 7 March and delivered a lecture entitled "Self-Organisation of Metallosupramolecular Architectures". Professor Lehn shared the Nobel Prize in 1987 for his work on the chemical basis of "molecular recognition" which is at the heart of many biological processes and his subsequent work led to the development of a new field of chemistry: supramolecular chemistry, which deals with the association of molecules through non-covalent forces. In turn this led to his work on the chemistry of self-organising systems.

New Premises for Chemistry

Following completion of the new building to house (amongst other facilities) the research and teaching laboratories of the School of Chemistry, staff and students have moved into the new facilities and re-established their research and teaching activities. The pictures below show the new building the day it was officially completed. Photographs during the construction are displayed on this page.

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A view into one of the synthetic research labs through the student write-up room. Synthetic research laboratory.

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First Year teaching laboratory. A sunlit corridor joins the new building with the old Applied Science building.

Vice-Chancellor visits the School

The Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of New South Wales, Professor Frederick Hilmer, visited the School of Chemistry on 8 December, 2006 to unveil a plaque commemorating the relocation of the School into the new buildings.

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The Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of New South Wales, Professor Frederick Hilmer, unveils the plaque, while the Head of the School of Chemistry, Professor Robert Lamb, looks on. The plaque commemorating the relocation of the School of Chemistry into the new buildings.