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Analytical Group Awards for Outstanding Student Presentations
Honours student Eric Foley and Masters student Peter Lee awarded for outstanding presentations at the RACI NSW Analytical Group's annual Honours & Masters-by-Research Student Presentation Evening.

Over $1.7 million in ARC funding announced for UNSW Chemistry
UNSW Chemistry will receive over $1.79 million to support early career researchers; to prevent microbial infections; and tocontrol chemical reactions with designer solvents, in funding outcomes announced by the ARC

Controlling the shape of polymer nanoparticles to improve targetting of cancer cells
The Thordarson and Stenzel research groups have teamed up to develop a way to create smart, self-assembling polymer nanoparticles – that are better than spherical nanoparticles at getting into tumour cells – to deliver anti-cancer drugs.

Award-winning original research on the strongest acids
RACI Analytical and Environmental Division announces 3rd year Ph.D. student, Muhammad Zenaidee as the winner of their Original Research Publication Award

Toward a perfect organic catalyst for green synthesis
UNSW PhD Students, Demelza Lyons and Reece Crocker demonstrate that tropylium salts are ideal Lewis acid catalysts for safe and efficient production of valuable organic compounds

Applications now open for 2017/8 Summer Vacation Research Scholarships
Summer Vacation Research Scholarships give highly talented undergraduate students a chance to do a research project over summer.

Antibacterial nitric oxide-releasing surfaces
UNSW Medicinal Chemists create nitric oxide donor surfaces that could prevent bacterial infections associated with surgical implants

Optimal drug loading of tumour-targeting nanoparticles
Payload size influences the therapeutic impact of drug-loaded nanoparticles, and it is not neccessarily in the way that we would expect, says Martina Stenzel.

New IUPAC representatives from the UNSW School of Chemistry
IUPAC announcement: Jason Harper has been elected as Associate Member of the Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Division, and Brynn Hibbert is the incoming Secretary of Interdivisional Committee on Terminology Nomenclature and Symbols.

Best Student Talk at Mass Spectrometry Conference
PhD student, Morphy Dumlao takes home the prize for best student talk from the 26th Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference.