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In 2012, the Department was awarded
Athena SWAN Bronze status. This
award recognizes our commitment to
tackling the unequal representation of
women in science and improving career
progression for female academics.
The committee is also dedicated to
enhancing life in the Department in a
number of ways, including the creation of
The Keytones, our new chemistry choir.

The fantastic Chemistry Outreach Team is undergoing a Professor Tim Donohoe has been awarded the 2012
period of revitalizing and regeneration and will be expanding AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer & Syngenta prize for
its programme of widening access and engaging the public Process Chemistry Research.
through a variety of initiatives including training student Professor Veronique Gouverneur is
ambassadors, increasing school visits, and delivering one of the recipients of the prestigious
residential programmes for students from state schools. “Blaise Pascal Research Chairs”
Teachers are encouraged to get in touch! To request a visit, for highly qualified, internationally
or for more information, contact OUTREACH CHEM OX AC acclaimed, research scientists to
UK HTTP OUTREACH CHEM OX AC UK continue work in a higher learning
institution or research institution in Paris.
We are pleased to announce that the University of Oxford’s
Department of Chemistry has topped the subject ranking Dr Stuart Conway has been designated by an International
for Chemistry in the Guardian’s University Guide 2013. Selection Committee as the winner of the European
Federation of Medicinal Chemistry Prize for a Young
Towards Absolute Zero, a science animation featuring Medicinal Chemist in Academia.
Professor Tim Softley’s research on the chemical and
physical behaviour of molecules at extremely cold )NTERNATIONAL !CCLAIM
temperatures is featured on the university’s public Professor David Logan has been elected as
engagement website, ‘Oxford Sparks’. a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of
WWW OXFORDSPARKS NET Sciences of India.
Professor Peter P Edwards, Head of Inorganic
Towards Absolute Zero Chemistry, has been awarded an Einstein
Professorship of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences for 2012.

!CKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank You to John Wiley & Sons, Ltd for their kind
sponsorship contribution to this magazine and the alumni
programme. We are delighted to be working in partnership
with Wiley and look forward to future collaborations. Thank
you also to the Oxford University Press for their generous
gift-in-kind to the magazine.
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We are thrilled to announce the award of the News, awards, research highlights, publications, featured
DBE to Carol Robinson, Dr Lee’s Professor, lectures, and prizes at all levels are updated daily on the
who has made remarkable advances in the Department website: WWW CHEM OX AC UK
study of biomolecular structure and dynamics
through mass spectrometry.

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