Alumni honour Stephen Loeb with Graduate Mentoring Award
Prof. Stephen Loeb received the 2015
Excellence in Mentoring Award in recognition of his personal, academic
and professional guidance of students, and contribution to their
all-round development up to and following graduation.
Prof. Loeb is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Supramolecular Chemistry and Functional Materials - his PDFs, graduate students and undergraduate research assistants have all been crucial to the success of his research program, including their recent design of functional molecular machines.
For more information, please visit his web site.
To read a Daily News article about all of the alumni awards, please click here.
Rawson wins teaching award
Congratulations to Prof. Jeremy Rawson, who was recently awarded the 2015 Roger Thibert award for excellence in teaching in the Faculty of Science.
Aside from his great teaching skills, Prof. Rawson is a Tier I Canada Chair in Molecular Materials, and he runs an active research program featuring undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students. His research interests encompass inorganic molecular materials chemistry, main group chemistry, free radical chemistry, EPR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. He has over 175 publications in peer-reviewed journals including multiple chapters in academic texts.
For more information on his research and teaching, please visit his web site at:
http://www.thiazyl.com/
Congratulations to Professor Rob Schurko who received one of two University of Windsor Awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity - Category C - Established Scholars / Researchers. The University of Windsor spotlights accomplishments and achievements of faculty at an annual event held to pay tribute to those who have received significant awards and honours for their research or creative activity.
Prof. Schurko was in Israel as a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute at the time of the awards ceremony; so, his two of his Ph.D. students, Chris O'Keefe and David Hirsh, accepted the award on his behalf.
His research focuses upon the development and application of techniques in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for the study of a wide variety of materials, including pharmaceutical compounds, nanoparticles, catalysts, and many more. To learn more about his research, visit:
http://www.uwindsor.ca/schurko
