CNC-IUPAC Travel Awards for 2008/Bourses de vovaqe du CNC-UICPA pour 2008.

The Canadian National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (CNC-IUPAC) established a program of Travel Awards for young Canadian scientists in 1982. These awards are financed jointly by the Canadian Society for Chemistry's Gendron Fund and by CNC-IUPAC's Company Associates--Merck Frosst, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Bruker BioSpin. The purpose of these awards is to help young Canadian scientists and engineers, who should be within ten years of gaining their PhDs, present a paper at an IUPAC-sponsored conference outside Canada and the U.S. Deadline for receipt of applications: October 15, 2008. Details of the application procedures can be found at www.cnc-iupac.ca.

Le Comite national canadien de l'Union internationale de chimie pure et appliquee (CNC-LIICPA) remet des bourses de voyage aux jeunes scientifiques canadiens depuis 1982. Ces bourses sont subventionnees par le Fonds Gendron (administre par la Societe canadienne de chimie) et par les compagnies associees au CNC-UICPA : Merck Frosst, Boehringer Ingelheim et BrU.K.er BioSpin. L'objectif de ces bourses est de venir en aide aux jeunes scientifiques et ingenieurs canadiens qui sont a moins de I0 ans d'obtentir leur doctorat afin de leur permettre de presenter leurs travaux lors d'un congres commandite par I'UICPA a l'exterieur du Canada et des Etats-Unis. Date limite pour postuler : le 15 octobre 2008. Renseignements supplementaires : www.cnc-iupac.ca.

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Aicheng Chen, MCIC, received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Guelph under the supervision of Jacek Lipkowski, FCIC. He then spent two years working as a research scientist at Huron Tech Canada Inc. and two years as an electrochemical specialist at FINNCHEM Canada Inc., Kingston, ON. In 2002 he joined Lakehead University as an assistant professor where he was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 2005. His research interests span the areas of electrochemistry, green chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology, encompassing some major issues that are critical to the mining and pulp and paper industries and to the sustainable development of natural resources in Canada. He was awarded an Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award in 2003; a Canada Research Chair Award in Material and Environmental Chemistry in 2005; and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship in 2006. With grateful acknowledgment of a CNC/IUPAC Travel Award for 2008, he will attend the XXIInd IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry in Gothenburg, Sweden in July 2008.

Chen has made significant contributions to electrochemistry and materials science. He has successfully designed and studied a number of scientifically important nanomaterials including super-hydrophobic tin oxide nanoflowers, well-aligned titanium dioxide nanorod arrays, and nanoporous platinum-based networks for green chemistry applications and novel electrochemical sensor design.

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Gonzalo Cosa, MCIC, was born in Cordoba, Argentina. He received his Lic. Chemistry degree at the Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto in 1996. In 1997, he joined the group of J. C. Scaiano, HFCIC, at the University of Ottawa and was awarded his PhD in 2002. He then moved to the University of Texas at Austin as a post-doctoral Fellow in the group of Paul F. Barbara. In 2005 he joined the department of chemistry at McGill University as an assistant professor. With the support of the 2008 CNC/IUPAC Travel Award, Cosa will attend the XXIInd IUPAC Symposium in Photochemistry in Gothenburg, Sweden, in August 2008.

Cosa received the CNC/IUPAC Travel Award for his work involving the development of novel fluorescence-based strategies for visualizing chemical interactions, specifically, the design of novel single molecule methodologies to be applied in protein/DNA interaction studies, the preparation and characterization of nanostructures based on lipid-light emitting polymer supramolecular aggregates for membrane biosensing, and the synthesis of novel fluorescent probes to monitor reactive oxygen species.

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Dmitrii Perepichka received his PhD in 1999 from the Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry (Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences), for work on r~-electron acceptors with push-pull functionality. From 1999, he spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher with Martin Bryce at Durham University (U.K.I, working on covalent linkage of strong electron acceptors and electron donors. In 2001 he joined the group of Fred Wudl at UCLA, where he was engaged in a number of projects, including synthesis of conjugated polymers and functionalization of carbon nanotubes. In 2003, Perepichka jointed the faculty of l'Universite du Quebec (INRS-EMT), and subsequently moved to McGill University in 2005 where he is currently an assistant professor. His research interests include materials for thin-film and molecular electronics, novel architectures in conjugated polymers, and molecular self-assembly on surfaces.

Perepichka's group works on the design and synthesis of exotic conjugated materials and the study of their self-assembly at the nanolevel. Recent advances in the group include the first asymmetric functionalization of single-wall carbon nanotubes, and development of two-dimensional molecular networks with tunable symmetry and periodicity.

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Yujun Shi, MCIC, is an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Calgary. She received her PhD in 2001 from The University of Western Ontario under the guidance of Rob Lipson, MCIC. She then moved to the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences at the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa with an NSERC visiting fellowship. In 2004, she received the NSERC University Faculty Award for her position at Calgary. Her research focuses on investigation of structures, kinetics, and energetics of reactive intermediates in hot-wire chemical vapour deposition (HWCVD) of silicon-containing semiconductor films using laser spectroscopic and laser ionization mass spectrometric techniques. With grateful receipt of a CNC/IUPAC Travel Award for 2008, she will attend the XXIInd IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry to be held from July 28 to August 1, 2008, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Shi's research involves the application of laser spectroscopic and laser ionization mass spectrometric techniques to study the important reactive intermediates in the process of HWCVD of silicon-containing films. Her work is directed towards a molecular level understanding of the gas-phase chemistry in HWCVD that will provide important guidance towards improved methods for film growth.

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Andre Simpson obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham, U.K. under the supervision of Michael H. B. Hayes in 2000. His PhD work focused on the reactivity and transformation of natural products in the terrestrial environment using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. He then moved to the U.S. completing two postdoctoral fellowships, the first under the supervision of William Kingery at Mississippi State and the second under Patrick Hatcher at Ohio State University. Simpson is now an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. His research program centres on the development of NMR Spectroscopy and its "hyphenation" with other analytical methods. His main research aims to understand the direct metabolic response of living systems to their environment and to unravel the molecular processes that lead to the preservation and bioavailability of toxic chemicals in the environment. Simpson is very grateful for the support of the CNC/IUPAC Travel Award, and will attend the 5th International Symposium of Interaction of Soil Minerals with Organic Components and Microorganisms in Chile from November 24 to 29, 2008.

Simpson's research focuses on analytical techniques with the goal to better understand complex molecular-scale environmental processes.

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William Skene, MCIC, is an assistant professor in physical chemistry at l'Universite de Montreal. He obtained his PhD in 2000 at the University of Ottawa under the direction of J. C. Scaiano, HFCIC. He then did a post-doctoral fellowship with J. M. Lehn at the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France, between 2000 and 2002. In 2003, he joined l'Universite de Montreal where he is interested in the preparation and characterization of new functional materials derived from azomethines connections.

By incorporating different aryl units using these easy connections, Skene and his group are examining the effect of these groups upon the photophysical, electrochemical, and crystallographic properties by establishing structure-property relationships. Not only are they concerned with the fundamental excited state deactivation processes of these highly conjugated materials, but they are also interested in tuning the properties making these functional materials suitable for electrochromic and emitting devices. Their recent work in understanding the photophysics of azomethines will be presented at the XXIInd IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry in Gothenburg, Sweden.