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Description: The solution to a biochemical puzzle over the molecular make-up of a coral reef sea sponge (Theonella swinhoei) has revealed the origin of its extremely toxic agents. A team of international scientists, including academics at The University of Nottingham, have discovered that polytheonamides — highly toxic and chemically complex compounds which are key to the sponge's defences — are produced by the organism in disguise. And in a final twist they found that the polytheonamides are not even made by the sponge itself but by a bacterium living with it in symbiosis.
Date:: 04/10/2012

Description: A low-cost new material that could lead to innovative technologies to tackle global warming has been discovered by scientists at The University of Nottingham.
Date:: 25/09/2012

Description: Congratulations to Dr Elena Bichoutskaia, an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow and a Lecturer in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, who was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her project entitled "Theory of Fundamental Interactions at the Nanoscale".
Date:: 25/09/2012

Description: Two Nottingham chemists were among the 70,000 volunteers selected to contribute to the Olympic Games as "Games Makers". Dr Samantha Tang, Public Awareness Scientist and James Scragg, Postgraduate Student, were "the public face of the Games".
Date:: 16/08/2012

Description: The School of Chemistry congratulates Dr Sihai Yang, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, who has been awarded two prestigious prizes in recognition of his outstanding research.
Date:: 12/07/2012

Description: On June 1st, the Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Division and the School of Chemistry co-hosted a symposium entitled "A Celebration of Inorganic Chemistry" to mark the 70th birthday of Professor Dave Garner, Professor Emeritus in the School of Chemistry and a past President of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and its Dalton Division. Dave Garner's research has been concerned with several aspects of Inorganic Chemistry, notably the role of d-transition metals in biological systems, and this symposium reflected these interests. Also, Dave has a strong connection to each of the seven speakers, notably because of their common research interests.
Date:: 11/07/2012

Description: Research led by Dr Steve Liddle has resulted in publication of the first uranium-nitrogen triple bond, which has eluded scientists for decades, in the leading journal Science. Molecules which contain multiple bonds between a metal and elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen have attracted intense interest over many years. This is due to interest in their bonding, and the fact that such molecules find major applications in synthesis as exemplified by the 2005 Nobel Prize for Olefin Metathesis which involves metal-carbon multiple bonds.
Date:: 29/06/2012

Description: A second group of students have just completed the School's Nottingham Advantage Award module, "Career Skills for Chemist." This extra-curricular course focused on developing a number of transferable skills (oral presentation, interview, CV writing, team-working, job applications and the ability to identify career path options). The course was delivered by an exceptional group of tutors including members of Ernst & Young, the UoN Careers and Employability Service, the UoN Business Partnership Unit and Teach First.
Date:: 27/06/2012

Description: A £3.5 million supercomputing hub is set to power growth and innovation in the Midlands and London by opening up its vast number-crunching power to local firms. The University of Nottingham is one of four top universities in the region to launch MidPlus, a state-of-the-art high-performance computing centre, to help SMEs and larger firms with the modelling, simulation and analysis needed to design world-leading products and services. MidPlus will also significantly extend the current computing power available within the region's universities.
Date:: 21/06/2012

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