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Learn about 'Engineering the Medicines of the Future'. Join Alex Baker, Lona Alkalaf and Scott Habershon for a Pint of Science at the Royal Pug, Leamington Spa, 18.30, Monday 9 May.

Down a Pint of Science as Chemistry's Alex Baker and co-stars discuss nature's salubrious substances. See what you missed.

Today we are choosing to seek out and celebrate women's achievements at Warwick Chemistry.

The International Polymer Colloid Group (IPCG) was founded in 1972 as a global forum for the exchange of ideas and emerging research activities for scientists and engineers from both academia and industry who study or use polymer colloids.

It is a vibrant scientific international community who normally meet face-to-face every two years to discuss the latest global developments related to polymer colloid science (2013 Shanghai, 2015 New Hampshire, 2017 the Basque Country, 2019 Singapore).

As a result of the global COVID19 pandemic, prof. dr. ir. Stefan Bon came up with the idea to take the IPCG forum online with a series of weekly scientific webinars, called the i-PCG 2020 Webinars. Anyone who is interested in science can participate as audience member, or even better, as presenter. Expect to interact with the world top in polymer colloid, with expert participants from industry, academia and enthusiasts. All is free.

On Sunday, Dave Haddleton was presented with an award for “recognition of outstanding service and contribution to the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing” at the RSC Editors Symposium banquet at the Guildhall in London. The award was given for service on the Board of “Chem Comm”, and for being Editor in Chief – and launching – “Polymer Chemistry”.

Professor Hong Liang, President of Guangxi Normal University, presents an award to Peter Sadler after his Plenary Lecture to the International Symposium on Medicinal Bioinorganic Chemistry, held in Guilin, China, on 18 July 2015.

Peter Sadler and the other Plenary Lecturers were called upon to ‘paint the dragon’ at the Asian Coordination Chemistry Conference (ACCC5) held in Hong Kong from 12-16 July 2015

Warwick Chemistry took part in the 2015 Cheltenham Festival of Science with hands-on demonstrations by Nick Barker and helpers, and a lecture by Matt Gibson.

Dave Haddleton has recently been given the PTN (Polymer Technology Netherlands) 2015 “Medema Award”.

The annual prize is awarded to prolific polymer scientists who interact, or have close ties, with polymer research in the Netherlands. The award is named after the late PTN chairman, Dick Medema, who was the former R&D director at Shell.

The list of previous award winners can be found at: http://www.ptn.nu/award/index.htm.

Vincent Poon, a PhD student in Christophe Corre’s group, has attended Parliament to present his research on exploiting soil bacteria to unlock the production of novel antibiotics. Vincent presented to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of SET for Britain on Monday 9th March.

For further information about the event, please visit http://www.setforbritain.org.uk/.

Other colleagues were nominated for an award and enjoyed the opportunity of celebrating with Sharon.