News, Events and Seminars

Dept. of Chemistry Seminars | Catalysis Meetings

June 28-29, 2010 (CCRI, Bioscience Complex, University of Ottawa)

2^nd Fuel Cell Colloquium on Computational Methods for Reactions and Interactions at Solid Surfaces: Computations and Experimental Validation. more >>

May 5-7, 2010 (University of Ottawa)

Keith Fagnou Organic chemistry Symposium (KFOS). more >>

December 2009

Dr. Tom Baker has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). more >>

June 23-25, 2009 (CCRI, Bioscience Complex, University of Ottawa)

Electron Microscopy Workshop "Applications of Electron Microscopy in Nano-Scale Science and Technology Research".

The objective of the workshop is to provide training in applications of electron microscopy to the field of nano-scale science and technology research. The target audience of the workshop is students, postdoctoral fellows and researchers from academia, research institutions and industries in the eastern Ontario and west Quebec region. The format of the workshop includes lectures, demonstrations and hands-on training by scientists and instrument specialists at the forefront of the electron microscopy field. more >>

Tuesday June 16, 2009 (3:30pm, BSC435)

CCRI General Meeting.

June 9, 2009

Tom Baker: Fostering CleanTech Collaborations presentation

Tuesday February 3, 2009 (12:00pm, Gendron 080)

CCRI General Meeting.

Tuesday January 20, 2008 (12:00pm, Gendron 080)

CCRI Rapid Throughput User Meeting.

Tuesday January 6, 2008 (12:00pm, Gendron 080)

CCRI General Meeting.

Tuesday December 9, 2008 (12:00pm, Gendron 080)

CCRI General Meeting; Materials Characterization User Meeting.

Friday November 14, 2008 (12:00pm, Gendron 080)

CCRI Computational Chemistry User Meeting.

Friday October 17, 2008 (1:00pm, Gendron 080)

CCRI Members Meeting. A presentation by Dr. Wendy Pell on the Electrochemical Facility.

August 2008

Dr. Tom Baker becomes a new CCRI Director. He comes to the centre from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Thursday April 3, 2008 (3:00pm - 4:00pm, Gendron 080)

Monthly CCRI Members Meeting. A presentation by Ms. Roxanne Clement on the High Throughput Facility - SYMIX.

Monday January 28, 2008 (1:30pm - 2:30pm, Gendron 080)

Monthly CCRI Members Meeting. This month, Dr. Yun Liu, technician of the Microscopy Division of the CCRI will be presenting a short lecture on her facility.

December 14, 2007

Monthly CCRI Members Meeting. The December presentation (4:00 PM in Gendron 080) will be made by Dr. Serge Gorelsky on the CCRI computational facility.

August 25, 2007

Dr. Christian Detellier has accepted to serve as the Acting Director for the CCRI effective September 30, 2007.

May, 2007

Dr. Deryn Fogg has won the 2007 Strem Chemicals Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry.

Awarded for outstanding research in inorganic chemistry, the Strem Award is the highest honour in Canada for an inorganic chemist within the first ten years of their independent appointment. Dr. Fogg was recognized for her studies on the design of selective, efficient ways to build complex molecules from simple precursors; in particular, for her work on olefin metathesis and tandem catalysis.

Professor Fogg is also the recipient of a $120,000 NSERC Accelerator Supplement. She is one of 50 outstanding researchers chosen across Canada in all NSERC discipline areas for increased funding to accelerate their research programs.

February 15, 2007

A new 244-CPU AMD Opteron cluster is installed to support computational chemistry research at the CCRI. The cluster is operated by Dr. Tom Woo and his research group.

November 7, 2006

Dr. David Bryce receives the $150,000 Ontario Early Researcher Award from the Ontario government.

October 1, 2006

Dr. Serge Gorelsky has joined the CCRI as the centre's resident computational chemistry research associate. Dr. Gorelsky will collaborate with research groups within the CCRI and perform quantum chemical calculations to augment their research efforts in catalysis. Dr. Gorelsky received his Ph.D. at York University in Toronto and joins us from Ed Solomon's group at Stanford where he was a post-doctoral fellow. He is a recipient of the Governor General's Gold Academic Medal.

August 30, 2006

Dr. Keith Fagnou has been chosen the university’s 2006 Young Researcher of the Year. This is the third year in a row that a CCRI member has won the award (Louis Barriault and Deryn Fogg received the award in 2005 and 2005, respectively)

May 11, 2006

Two Nobel laureates were at grand opening of the Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation (CCRI)

Research posters from CCRI research groups that were prepared for the grant opening are now available in PDF format.

February 20, 2006

Dr. Tito Scaiano appointed Officer of the Order of Canada.

March 27, 2006

Dr. André Beauchemin receives $319,968 CFI/ORF grant (Leaders Opportunities Fund).

March 21, 2006

The CCRI has been short listed for a multi-million international joint venture grant.

November 29, 2005

Dr. David Bryce wins the Polanyi Prize.

August 2005

The home of the CCRI (the top two floors of the Biosciences Complex) completes construction and members of the CCRI begin to move in.

June 28, 2005

Dr. Tom Woo joins the CCRI as a Canada Research Chair in Catalyst Modelling and Computational Chemistry

May 18, 2005

Dr. Keith Fagnou wins Cottrell Scholar Award.

February 2, 2005

Dr. Abdel Sayari wins the University of Ottawa’s 2004 Ingenuity to Opportunity Award.

September 22, 2004

Dr. Deryn Fogg has been chosen the university’s 2004 Young Researcher of the Year.

July 12, 2004

Dr. Tito Scaiano receives one million-dollar PREA Platinum Prize.

March 8, 2004

The CCRI is awarded $15.5 million in CFI/OIT funding.

November 28, 2003

Dr. Keith Fagnou wins the Polanyi Prize.

June 25, 2003

Dr. Tito Sciano becomes the University of Ottawa's newest Canada Research Chair.

May 9, 2003

Dr. Javier Giorgi receives the Premier's Research Excellence Awards.

March 4, 2003

Drs. Keith Fagnou and Javier Giorgi receive CFI awards (New opportunities program) for a total of $743,982.

November 25, 2002

Dr. Tito Scaiano wins Canada’s top prize for Science and Engineering, NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal.

January 30, 2002

Dr. Christian Detellier wins $8.8 million grant for a National NMR Facility (900 MHx solid state NMR).

November 27, 2001

Drs. Mary-Ellen Harper and Marc Dubé receive the Premier's Research Excellence Award.

February 27, 2001

Dr. Howard Alper wins the first Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.

November 29, 2001

Dr. Abdel Sayari becomes the University of Ottawa's newest Canada Research Chair.