Fall Semester - 2023

A fruitful semester with Emily obtaining several crystal structures with help of our new collaborator, Prof. René T. Boeré at the University of Lethbridge. One the structures is presented above, the research groups first organometallic compound! Hopefully the first of many! The other structures were various ligands we have been working with.

I was given associated status with the School of Graduate Studies down at the University of Lethbridge. This opens up the door for many collaborations, student supervision, and guest lecturing. It is great to be working with familiar faces again.

Students Tigist Tilahun and Liza Zamani joined the group for the semester, conducting some ground breaking work on the natural product project (more to come on this in the new year). Unfortunately time with Tigist was short lived as she will be moving for her graduate studies, good luck Tigist! Hope my reference letters helped!

Maliha & Krizel managed to work through many of the new undergraduate experiments, and Irish worked on her CHEM5201 course material. Jarrett aided in many of the above research projects, but a busy semester was had by all and figuring out schedules was definitely a challenge.

Too many students, and not enough time but lots of exciting work is being conducted here and there are more collaborations with Lethbridge to come. We are looking forward to the CSC in Winnipeg, many of the students are excited to join this time round.