Today, the Minister for Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains, announced $15 million dollars in federal funding for the new Science Research and Innovation Facility (SRIF), which will be a $30 million dollar building attached to the north end of Essex Hall.
The new SRIF will feature:
3rd Floor: Materials Chemistry laboratories
2nd Floor: Biochem, Biological, and Cancer Research Laboratories
1st Floor: Magnetic Resonance Centre, X-ray Diffraction Laboratory, numerous microscopy and instrumentation laboratories
UPDATE Jan. 13, 2017: Government of Canada Announcement
http://bit.ly/2iluIFN
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Chris Houser, the Dean of Science, sent out the following announcement earlier today
Science Faculty, Staff and Students,
I’m excited to announce that UWindsor is building a dynamic new facility that will be devoted entirely to scientific research. The 46,000-sq-ft, three-story Science Research and Innovation Facility (SRIF) will be built on the main campus, adjacent to the northern wing of the existing Essex Hall building. The Honourable Navdeep Bains, MBA ‘01, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, is on campus today to make the official funding announcement.
The transparent exterior will create a welcoming façade and let natural light flood into the flexible scientific labs, as well as the social and collaborative spaces. The main entrance will open directly into a full-height atrium “hive” space - a lounge that grounds the interconnected three-story facility.
The modern and efficient layout is designed to encourage easy collaboration between faculty, students and industry professionals. The facility will meet LEED standards for environmental sustainability, and incorporate innovative solutions to provide world-class wet and dry lab facilities for materials chemistry, biochemistry, biology and medical physics.
By providing an environment that fosters creativity and inspires 21st-century learning and innovation, the Faculty of Science will successfully attract and empower the finest faculty, staff and students to the Faculty of Science at the University of Windsor.
Construction on the Science Research and Innovation Facility (SRIF) will begin soon and we expect it to be completed in Spring 2018. We will provide you with more information about the facility and the construction schedule over the coming year.
More information will be posted as it becomes available!
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/
Chemistry and Biochemistry Canned Food Drive
All Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty, Staff, PDF, Grad and 410 Students:
Bring in your unexpired can goods or non perishable food items.
You are being challenged - lets set a record and beat the other departments in the Faculty of Science. If we win, we get to share a coffee break!
There is a box set up in the main office. Contest runs from Nov. 1-30, 2015
Details below.
Tenure-track position in Environmental Chemistry - DEADLINE: May 19, 2014
Click here to see this posting on our web site!
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Environmental Chemistry - DEADLINE: May 19, 2014
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER) and the Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry
The
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER-UW) and the
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (Chem/Biochem) at the
University of Windsor invite outstanding candidates to apply for a
Tenure-Track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the
area of Environmental Chemistry, commencing as early as July 1, 2014 or
soon thereafter. This position is subject to final budgetary approval.
GLIER-UW and Chem/Biochem are research
intensive units with active and vibrant graduate programs with diverse
sources of external funding within the Faculty of Science. The
successful candidate will have a joint-appointment with the two units in
the Faculty of Science. To learn more about GLIER-UW and Chem/Biochem,
please visit our website at http://www.uwindsor.ca/glier and http://www.uwindsor.ca/chemistry.
The successful candidate will be
expected to develop an active research program and mentor graduate
students in aquatic nutrient chemistry dynamics as related to primary
production in aquatic ecosystems and support GLIER-UW’s mission (aquatic
resource sustainability with a focus on interacting multiple
stressors). Particularly
exciting opportunities exist for research on the eutrophication crisis
in the lower Great Lakes, while expertise in large-lake nutrient stress
in general would be an asset. Expertise and experience in analytical
methods development, chemical cycling, bioavailability and modeling and
their application to environmental research approaches are considered
strong assets. Existing GLIER-UW faculty members work on aquatic
environmental processes and issues and have strengths in ecological
tracers, fisheries, conservation and evolutionary genetics, invasion
biology, ecotoxicology, predictive ecology, biogeochemistry,
large-system modeling and nutrient/metal/chemical dynamics.
The ideal candidate must possess a PhD,
in Chemistry and/or Environmental science with subsequent interests in
developing and delivering training in instrumental analyses related to
analytical chemistry in environmental systems. Teaching duties will be
assigned in Chem/Biochem and shared with graduate teaching and
supervision duties within the GLIER-UW graduate program.
In addition, an outstanding record of
research productivity, and a willingness to work in a highly
collaborative and multidisciplinary research environment is expected.
Significant financial resources and dedicated laboratory space are
associated with this faculty position. The appointee will have access to
state-of-the-art facilities including laboratories for trace organics
and metals, heavy and light stable isotopes, applied molecular genetics
and genomics/proteomics, toxicology, fish husbandry, GIS, computational
simulation modeling, analytical and aqueous geochemistry and microscopy.
In addition, a recently successful large infrastructure grant has
established new facilities for advanced field and lab research, with
particular focus on environmental stressors in the Great Lakes under the
broad themes of biogeochemical function, genomics/proteomics and
ecosystem tracers.
Applications will include:
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a letter of application, including a statement of citizenship/immigration status;
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a detailed and current curriculum vitae;
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a two (2) page outline of research interests; and
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the names of three referees.
The
short-listed candidates may be invited to provide further information
in support of their applications. To ensure full consideration, complete
an online application by the deadline date of May 19, 2014.
Reference Letters to be sent to:
Dr. Daniel Heath, Director
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4
Phone: (519) 253-3000 X 2732, Fax: (519) 971-3616
E-mail: glierjobs@uwindsor.ca
- CLICK HERE to see the official posting on the faculty recruitment site
- CLICK HERE to complete an online application
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Visit the University of Windsor HR site for more employment opportunities.
Congratulations to the following people in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry who were recognized by the Faculty of Science at the Celebration of Success on Fri. Nov. 27, 2009:
- Faculty Performance Award: Robert Schurko
- Faculty Teaching Score Award: Avinash Thadani
- Sessional Teaching Score Awards: Jennifer Schmeisser
