Awards News

The third Networking Event featuring SCI's scholars was held at the University of York's chemistry department on 7 October 2011, and featured three scholars presenting on their work.

SCI's Board of Trustees has decided that SCI should undertake a thorough review of its awards programme. During 2012, we are therefore cutting back the distribution of awards to a minimum until the review is completed.

The SCI Bristol and South West group held a joint meeting with the RSC Bristol and District Section on Wednesday, 23 November 2011.

The prestigious international medal, the Carl Hanson Award, is jointly awarded by SCI and DECHEMA every three years to an eminent scientist in the field of solvent extraction.

I attended and gave a presentation at the 242nd ACS National Meeting and Exposition in Denver, Colorado. I learned a great deal of organic synthesis, as well as less familiar areas such as polymer and biological chemistry.

Seligman Fellow Swati Kadam has just completed a four month stay at the University of Birmingham investigating the rice cooking process, under the supervision of Dr Serafim Bakalis.

The Colloid and Surface Chemistry Group and the RSC Colloid and Interface Chemistry Group have awarded the 2011 McBain Medal to Prof Adam Lee.

Schools in Oxfordshire nominated one outstanding Year 13 student for the Sixth Form Chemist of 2011 Award, hosted by Oxford University, SCI and the Oxfordshire Independent and State Schools Partnership

The past 100 years has seen a revolution in food process engineering. Substantial advances have been achieved in all aspects of food processing from raw ingredient preparation through to final packaging. Dr Paul Skudder will discuss this important subject in the Seligman Lecture on 24 Nov

The original devices, technology inventions and new products exhibited in the conference added to my knowledge and I discoved that some of them could be more effective than what I currently use.