News Archive 2009
Jan 2009
Welcome our new Assistant Professor Chen Wei
Welcome our Visiting Professor Ei-ichi Negishi
Welcome our Distinguished Visiting Professor Lu Yi
Welcome our Visiting Professor Alexandra Maria van Herk
Welcome our Visiting Professor Michael Ian Bruce
Welcome our Visiting Fellow Natalia Zaitseva
Welcome our Visiting Professor Fred Robert Heiker
Welcome our Senior Visiting Fellow Dr Sambasivarao Kotha
Welcome our Visiting Associate Professor Patrick H. Toy
Feb 2009
Welcome our Visiting Professor Yoel Sasson
Mar 2009
Chip III was successfully concluded on 30 Dec 2008
NUS-SNU Joint Symposium was successfully concluded on 28 Feb
Congratulations to Professor Lee Hian Kee for his appointment as Senior Research Associate, TMSI
Publication by A/P Richard Wong, Asst./P Tan Choon Hong and Asst./P Huang Kuo-Wei chosen as 'Hot' paper by 'Angewandte Chemie'
Congratulations to A/P Suresh Valiyaveettil (EB63,EB45) , Asst/P Liu Xiaogang (EB74), Asst/P Xue Feng (MH13), Prof Andy Hor (CH05) and A/P Chin Wee Shong (EB82) who have mentored winning projects in SSEF.
Dr Zhao Jin has been awarded "The Distinquished Lectureship Award"
Apr 2009
Congratulations to Professor Jagadese J Vittal for his promotion to Full Professor.
Congratulations to Zhou Jingmei for obtaining the President's Graduate Fellowship
Visiting faculty Dr Kotha Sambasivarao was honored by an Award for Excellence in Pure Sciences by IIT-Bombay
Asst. Prof Martin Lear has been elected as a member of the SBIC External Liaison Committee
The Department has signed an agreement on student exchange with Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 13 March.
The Department has signed an agreement on student exchange with The University of Hong Kong on 15 April.
May 2009
Catalysis for Efficient and Sustainable Energy Workshop on 28 May
1st SG-HK Graduate Student Congress in Chemical Sciences from 28-30 May
Publication "NEANA" by Asst./P Liu Xiaogang and Asst./P Zeng Huaqiang chosen as 'Very Important Paper' in Angew Chemie Int. Ed.
June 2009
Congratulations to A/P Tanja Weil for the appointment as Editorial Board Member of the new Wiley Journal "Molecular Informatics".
Congratulations to Ms Frances Lim for obtaining the May Day Partnership Awards 2009.
Congratulations to Winners of National Chemistry Week 2009 .
Congratulations to Ng Qiao Ming (Class of 2008) & Ong Lay Kheng (Class of 2002) for being accepted into the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.
Congratulations to Prof Lee Hian Kee for obtaining the FACS Foundation Leadership 2009.
July 2009
Welcome our new Assistant Professor Wang Jian
Congratulations to A/P Yao Shao Qin for receiving the Dean's Chair Professorship.
The Department has signed an agreement on student exchange with Xiamen University on 23 July. Photo
Congratulations to Sun Hong Yan (student of A/P Yao SQ) for wining the China National Excellence 2008 Award & Humboldt Scholarship.
Aug 2009
Congratulations to all winners of the 41st IChO and appreciation to A/P Fan Wai Yip and Dr Ship Chee Peng for their effort in mentoring the team.
Asst. Prof Toh Chee Seng's paper "Membrane-Based Electrochemical Nanobiosensor for the Detection of Virus" highlighted in "Analytical Chemistry"
Welcome our Visiting Professors Philip Marriott and Albert McGill
Sep 2009
Welcome our new Asst. Professor Ang Wee Han
Asst. Prof Martin Lear and Kevin Tan filed a patent on fluorescent-tagged cholorquine and its use in detecting drug resistant and sensitive malaria parasites (cf. Straits Times)
Department launches its own Research Awards
Congratulations to A/P Loh Kian Ping, Asst Prof Liu Xiaogang and Asst. Prof Tan Choon Hong for obtaining Dept Research Award '09
Welcome our new Asst. Professor Yuk Hyun-Gyun
Oct 2009
A/P Kang Hway Chuan won the NUS inspiring Mentor awards 2009
Congratulations to Prof Sam Li & Ms Chien Sheau Wei for obtaining the Outstanding Contribution Award & Outstanding SMP Mentor Award in the 15th Youth Science Conference
Nov 2009
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