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6 January 2020
Welcome to new M.Sc student Gen Borg!
7 September 2019
Welcome to new 4th year project student Graeme "GRONT" Francolini!
12 August 2019
Congrats to Michelle Mills for winning 2nd place graduate student oral presentation for the Chemistry Education division at the 102nd CCCE in Quebec City this June!
8 August 2019
Congratulations to Harrison Young, who won "Best Chemistry Poster" as well as 2nd place overall at today's CEPS Undergraduate Poster Session.
8 August 2019
Good luck to our undergraduate students Gabriele Wehrle and Harrison Young who are presenting at the 11th annual CEPS Undergraduate Poster Session this afternoon!
15 July 2019
Dalton Trans. "HOT" article! Congratulations to Carolyn Michalowicz (M.Sc.), Michelle Mills (Ph.D. candidate), and Ellen Song (B.Sc.) - their work ("Slow magnetization dynamics in a six-coordinate Fe(II)-radical complex", Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 4514-19) has been selected as a HOT article by Dalton Transactions reviewers and is now featured in a quarterly HOT article issue.
Our manuscript with collaborator Prof. Tom Lancaster, "Probing magnetic order and disorder in the one-dimensional molecular spin chains CuF2(pyz) and [Ln(hfac)3(boaDTDA)]n (Ln = La, Sm) using implanted muons" has been accepted for publication in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter! DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ab2cb6
12 June 2019
Congrats to Danielle Dinsdale for successfully defending her M.Sc.!
3 June 2019
The Preuss Group is heading to CCCE 2019 this week!
Harrison Young will be presenting a three-minute flash talk and a poster.
Farroq Raouf will present a poster.
Prof. Preuss and Michelle Mills will be presenting talks, and Prof. Preuss is organizing the Dynamic Molecular Materials symposium.
10 May 2019
Congrats to 4th year research project student Harrison Young for being selected to give a presentation at the “Canada in 2067: The Future Starts Now” special symposium CCCE in June.
Harrison will give a three-minute flash talk on Tuesday (4 June): “Tuning Magnetic Bistability Through Altering Supramolecular Contacts: Modifying 4-(2ʹ-benzimidazolyl)-1,2,3,5-dithiadiazolyl” followed by a poster presentation Wednesday night (5 June).
9 May 2019
Welcome to Farroq Raouf, new MSc student!
6 May 2019
Welcome to Gabriele Wehrle, new undergraduate student (NSERC USRA)!
24 April 2019
Congrats to PhD student Michelle Mills for being selected as the recipient of the Class of OAC ’60 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Graduate students are nominated for this campus-wide award by students and faculty members.
16 April 2019
Congrats to Matt Ryu for defending his M.Sc. today!
30 March 2019
Congrats to 4th year research project student Farroq Raouf for winning second place in Inorganic/Materials for his talk at SOUSCC 2019.
Farroq presented his work from this semester: “Tuning Solid State Phase Transitions in Lanthanide-Radical Complexes by Manipulation of C-F…H-C interactions”
30 March 2019
Congrats to our outstanding 4th year research project students who presented at SOUSCC 2019 today! Elise Chung presented a poster, and Farroq Raouf, Allison Salverda, and Harrison Young presented talks.
23 March 2019
Good luck to our 4th year project students Elise Chung, Farroq Raouf, Allison Salverda, and Harrison Young as they present their projects today!
6 March 2019
Our manuscript “Slow magnetization dynamics in a six-coordinate Fe(II)-radical complex” has been accepted for publication in Dalton Trans.! DOI: 10.1039/C9DT00558G
28 January 2019
Congrats to PhD student Michelle Mills for being selected as one of the student speakers at the Emerging Materials Researchers Symposium at CCCE 2019. Michelle will present a 20-minute talk: “Thiazyl radical ligands for the rational design of materials with technologically-relevant properties”
7 January 2019
Welcome new 4th year research project students Elise Chung, Farroq Raouf, and Harrison Young!
24 November 2018
Good luck to our 4th year project students Gen Borg and Allison Salverda as they present their projects today!
21 November 2018
Our manuscript “Magnetic Bistability in Crystalline Organic Radicals: The Interplay of H-bonding, Pancake Bonding, and Electrostatics in HbimDTDA” has been accepted for publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10370
6 September 2018
Welcome new 4th year research project student Allison Salverda!
