Congratulations to the winner of “The Magic of Chemistry" Art & Photography Competition, Samantha Benson (PhD student in Tosin group), for her entry "Is it a cumulus? Is it a stratus? No! It's Streptomyces coelicolor!"

Professor Tom Davis, one of Chemistry's joint appointments with Monash, has been awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship for an exciting new research project.

Robert Deller, in the GibsonGroup won the prize for the best poster at the 2014 RAPS Conference

Congratulations to all our graduands, who are receiving their degrees today.

All staff, colleagues and friends from the Department look forward to this occasion and the opportunity to celebrate your achievements with you and your guests on such a memorable day.

We wish you well and many congratulations on your success!

Dr Gerald Willey has won one of the 5 WATE Commendees Awards, and receives £2000 prize money to enhance his teaching practice. Further details can be seen at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/funding/wate/

Professor Andrew Dove has won one of this year's Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE). It includes a prize of £5000 to support his teaching practice. Andrew's award will be presented during one of the Graduation Ceremonies in July.

Visit http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/funding/wate/ for further details.

Congratulations to Jamie Young, a PhD student in the Stavros group, who has won a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Students (WATEPGR). He wins £500 to spend on teaching or research activities. Further details of this prestigeuous award can be seen at:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/news/intnews2/watepgr_winners_2014

Dr Matthew Gibson has been awarded the life science prize at the Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Technology technology competition. http://tinyurl.com/kmdw8pq

Congratulations to Professor Julie MacPherson who has been awarded a Royal Society Industry Fellowship, to commence in October 2014.

Congratulations to Dr Paul Taylor (Chemistry and IATL), Nick Barker (Chemistry) and Paul Blagburn (Student Admissions and Recruitment) who have successfully secured £150,000 from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s National Widening Participation (WP) programme ‘Chemistry for All’. Competition for these awards was fierce and Warwick was one of just four institutions, out of sixteen, to receive funding.

Many congratulations to Rod Wesson who has been awarded HEA STEM Technician of the Year Award! The winners of the Higher Education Academy STEM Technicians of the Year awards were announced at the HEA STEM annual conference on 30 April at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Iain Stewart, Professor of Geoscience Communication at University of Plymouth, and presenter of the BBC series Earth, presented the awards.

Dr Andrew Dove has been named the Royal Society of Chemistry Gibson-Fawcett Award winner for 2014. The award recognises “original and independent contributions to materials chemistry”.