Departmental news
Warwick at Tate Exchange 12-17 June: The Production of Truth, Justice and History
Colleagues from Sociology will be part of the upcoming programme of activities at the Tate Modern.
The University has worked with the Tate to create the Warwick Tate Exchange, which will explore the theme of The Production of Truth, Justice and History. The initiative is a collaboration between departments across the Social Sciences and the Arts and Humanities.
Hannah, Akwugo, Ana, and Goldie will be organising activities to explore through participative art practice their research into aspects of the Warwick Tate Exchange theme.
Award for Dave Haddleton
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”.
Award for Peter
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.
Painting the Dragon
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 at Cheltenham Festival of Science
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
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Medema Award given to Dave Haddleton
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 takes his science to Parliament
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/.
Staff Awards 2015
Other colleagues were nominated for an award and enjoyed the opportunity of celebrating with Sharon.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Sharon Udall who won the first ever Warwick unsung hero staff award.
Salters' Graduate Prize Winner
Congratulations to James Silk who won the Salters’ Graduate Prize at their Annual Awards Ceremony.