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Schools Partnership
14 May 2012
The Royal Society has funded a Partnership Grant to Dr Julie Fisher and Dr John Arnold (Selby College).
The purpose of these awards is to enable schools to run exciting and innovative projects in partnership with professional scientists or engineers. The funded project is aimed at investigating how different storage regimes affect the composition; and thereby quality, of meat. Sixth form pupils will determine storage protocols and will then extract metabolites from the tissue. The complex mixture of metabolites will then be analysed by NMR spectroscopy and statistical methods. It is hoped that the students will visit the School of Chemistry and get a feel for ‘front-line’ research.
Festival Fun
10 May 2012
The School today hosted a Salters' Festival of Chemistry for Y7 pupils.
Twelve schools sent teams of four pupils to take part in two laboratory based challenges and to see our Chemical Magic Demonstration. First, second and third prizes were awarded for the Salters’ Challenge and the University Challenge
Pictures of the winners are available here.
Pictures of the work in the labs are here.
Periodic buns
9 May 2012
Third year undergraduate Lucy Hatton used the Periodic Table as a theme for a charity bake sale.
In total £105.94 was raised for East African Playgrounds! Special thanks to the postgrads who let Lucy use their coffee morning and who were all very generous, and lecturers who made time to stop by.
Lucy said "I had great fun doing it, especially on Stuart Warriner's second visit to the table in search of a 'lighter' option; unsurprisingly, he chose Hydrogen!"
European recognition
19 April 2012
Dr Andy Wilson has been recognized as a runner up for a prestigious international prize for young academics working in the area of medicinal chemistry.
Andy has been designated by an International Selection Committee as a most meritorious runner-up of the EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia. This prestigious Prize has been established to acknowledge and recognize an outstanding young medicinal chemist (<35 years old) working in academia within Europe (see www.efmc.info). Andy will attend the XXIInd International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC), which will be held in Berlin, Germany on September 2-6, 2012 at which The EFMC Prize will be conferred. Andy’s ongoing research focuses on developing methods to modulate protein-protein interactions, a major problem in the pharmaceutical industry. For more details of Andy’s research see: http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/andrew-wilson/wilson-group.html
NERC grant success
16 April 2012
Professor Dwayne Heard, Dr. Lisa Whalley and Dr. Jenny Young have been awarded a grant from NERC for a 2 year project entitled “Identification of missing organic reactivity in the urban troposphere”.
The project, worth a total of £514 K, also involves collaborators at the University of York (Dr. Jacqui Hamilton, Professor Ally Lewis and Dr. Andrew Rickard), and brings together complementary expertise in the measurement of free-radicals and volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere using optical and mass spectrometric techniques, and modeling techniques developed through the Master Chemical Mechanism.
One of the main outcomes of this work will be the identification of classes of compounds that are key missing sinks of OH in the atmosphere, which consequently will play an important role in local ozone and secondary aerosol formation, and have important health implications. The outcomes of this project, which involves field measurements, laboratory studies and computer model simulations, can be included into air quality models and help improve emission estimates (e.g. via the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory) of important primary species.
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