Winter Semester Recap - 2024

A whirlwind of a semester! It was difficult to get research done with how busy we all were!

The first MRU Research Day (27th of March) featuring students from the Webb lab. Jarrett presenting work from his CHEM5201 - Independent Research project from the semester and Emily showing off all the ligand synthesis she has done including the three crystal structures she obtained with the aid of Prof. René T. Boeré at the University of Lethbridge. Emily will be presenting, along with myself at CSC2024 in Winnipeg this June!

Emily has even been accepted to graduate school down at the University of Lethbridge, how fitting given all her success over the past year.

Jarrett, along with Kieran (a new lab member, to be included over the Summer) secured the FST Student Research Award so they will both be paid to conduct research over the Summer and Fall months. Awesome work both of you! How rare it is to get 2 students for such a competitive award.

Krizel & Maliha had been busy with me, designing the new CHEM4411 - Organometallics lab component, including a complete synthesis and purification of ferrocene. Such beautiful crystals after sublimation!

Ashpreet joined as a directed reading student (under the CHEM4299 course) and presented some very cool literature on hallucinogenic mushrooms, I wonder what kind of natural products I am interested in... ?

Also, I am getting married in May, and the department put on a small celebration for me (cake pictured above) before the semester came to an end, thankfully there are limited recent public photos of me for them to use...

So many of the current team will be graduating come June, tears will be shed! But, I am glad I got such a productive team for the first two years of my time at MRU.