News and events

Download our latest newsletter: Elements Summer 2018(pdf)

Alex Brolo will receive the 2017 Faculty of Science Award

Alex Brolo will receive the 2017 Faculty of Science Award for Teaching Excellence.

Scott McIndoe has been awarded the 2017 Craigdarroch Silver Medal

McIndoe has been awarded the 2017 Craigdarroch Silver Medal for Excellence in Research.

Chemistry's newsletter Elements contains up-to-date news on what's happening at UVic Chemistry. See Special events, awards, research news and grants, and feature articles.

Fall 2018

Unless specified, seminars will be held at 11:30 am in MacLaurin D288
 Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

Date Speaker
Monday
September 10		 Joe Gilroy, Western University
Molecular and Macromolecular Materials Derived from Boron Difluoride Formazanates
Host: Robin Hicks
Monday
September 17		 Michael Gerken, University of Lethbridge
The Chemistry of SF4 and the Structure of Protonated Carbonyl Compounds
Host: Lisa Rosenberg
Monday
September 24		 Jen Pape, SGS AXYS
SGS AXYS: Ensuring Excellence in Specialty Environmental Analysis
Host: Scott McIndoe
Thursday
September 27

Sam Dagorne, University of Strasbourg
Combining N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) with oxophilic and earth-abundant metal centers: coordination chemistry, small molecules activation and use in catalysis
Host: Lisa Rosenberg
NOT CHEM 509
Monday
October 1		 Kristen Burford, Xenon Pharmaceuticals
Medicinal Chemistry at Xenon: A Selective Sodium 1.6 Channel Blocker Approach for the Potential Treatment of Epilepsy
Host: Jeremy Wulff
Thursday
October 4		 Oliver Wenger, Basel University
From Photoinduced Multi-Electron Transfer to New Photoactive Metal Complexes
Host: Robin Hicks
NOT CHEM 509
Thursday
October 18		 Pat Holland, Yale University
Nitrogen Binding and Fixation using Iron Complexes
Host: Robin Hicks
Monday
October 22		 Claudia Turro, Ohio State University
2018 Merck Lecturer
Title TBA
Host: Natia Frank
Monday
October 29		 Dwight Seferos, University of Toronto
2018 Xerox Lecturer
Title TBA
Host: Robin Hicks
Monday
November 5		 Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University
Title TBA
Host: Fraser Hof
Thursday
November 8		 Ilya Zharov, University of Utah
Title TBA
Host: Matt Moffitt
NOT CHEM 509
Friday
November 16

William Lubell, University of Montreal
Title TBA
Host: Fraser Hof
Location TBD
NOT CHEM 509
Monday
November 26		 Chris Gill, Vancouver Island University
Title TBA
Host:
Monday
December 3		 Scott McIndoe, University of Victoria
Title TBA
Host:

 

Spring 2019

Unless specified, seminars will be held at 11:30 am in ECS 116
 Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

Date Speaker
Monday
January 7		 Ian Tonks, University of Minnesota
2018 Dow Chemical Lecturer
Title TBA
Host: Scott McIndoe
Monday
January 14		 Ian Burgess, University of Saskatchewan
Title TBA
Host: Dennis Hore
Thursday
January 24		 Alex Radosevich, Massachusettes Institute of Technology
Title TBA
Host:
Thursday
January 31		 Warren Chan, University of Toronto
Title TBA
 Host: Alex Brolo
Monday
February 4

Jess Greener, Laval University
Title TBA
 Host: Dennis Hore
Monday
February 11		 Alison Brewer, Eli Lilly
Title TBA
Host: David Leitch
Monday 
February 25		 Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto 
Title TBA
Host: Matt Moffitt
Thursday
March 7		 Eric Price, University of Saskatchewan 
Title TBA
Host: Matt Moffitt
Wednesday
March 13

Karen Wooley, Texas A&M University
Lansdowne Lecture
Location: ELL 167
NOT CHEM 509
Thursday
March 14		 Karen Wooley, Texas A&M University
Title TBA
Host: 
Monday
March 18		 Mircea Dinca, Massachusettes Institute of Technology
Title TBA
Host:
Monday
March 25		 Jose Moran Mirabal, McMaster University
Title TBA
Host: Dennis Hore
Monday
April 1		 Jin-Quan Yu, Scripps Research Institute
Title TBA
Host: Jeremy Wulff