Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
Marcus A. Tius
Associate Member
Cancer Biology Program
University of Hawaii Cancer Centre
DATE: Monday, July 30
TIME: noon
LOCATION: H313
Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Seminar Series
Categories: Events
Originally founded in 1968 as the Department of Geological Sciences, 50 years later, it’s time to celebrate!
As a graduate of one of our programs, we hope that you’ll join us during Homecoming Weekend in September to reconnect and reminisce with fellow alumni, faculty and staff. We’ve arranged several events specifically for you and you won’t want to miss out!
50 Years of Earth Sciences Symposium
Date: Friday, September 21, 2018
Time: 2 to 6pm
Location: Pond Inlet, Brock University
Learn what your fellow graduates have accomplished since graduating from Brock. We also encourage everyone to share memories of their years at Brock at the Symposium, with opportunities to socialize with one another, students, faculty and staff throughout the afternoon.
A cash bar will be available and light refreshments will be provided.
Earth Sciences Networking Brunch
Date: Saturday, September 22, 2018
Time: 11am to 1pm
Location: Pond Inlet, Brock University
Join us for a complimentary bite to eat – the day after our Symposium – before you head out to participate in other Homecoming activities. Share your insights and experiences with current students and recent graduates and meet the geoscientists of tomorrow as well as your fellow alumni in a more casual setting.
See you in September!
Earth Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Science
Categories: News
The 7th edition of the Women in Physics Canada conference (WIPC2018) will feature interactive workshops to help you further your career, an entire afternoon dedicated to diversity issues in physics, discussion panels and scientific talks from an array of physics disciplines!
$5000 in travel funding available – Present your funding demand before May 20, 2018.
DATE: July 17-20, 2018
LOCATION: Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec
For more information: Women in Physics Conference
Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Physics
Categories: Events
Professor Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh (Department of Mathematics and Statistics) presented an invited plenary lecture at the international conference OTHA 2018: Modern Methods, Problems and Applications of Operator Theory and Harmonic Analysis – VIII, 22-27 April 2018, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
The title of his talk was “Generalized Variational Inequalities Without Convexity”.
OTHA is one of the largest first-class international analysis conferences in Russia. It is sponsored by the Southern Federal University, the Don State Technical University, the Russian Foundation of Basic Research, and the International Society for Analysis, Its Applications and Computation. This was its 8th edition.
LINK to website
WINDSOR, May 7, 2018 – The Supply Chain Advancement Network in Health (SCAN Health), proudly hosted by the Odette School of Business, University of Windsor is pleased to announce the winning teams of the inaugural SCAN Health Virtual Business Case Competition. Outstanding students from leading business schools around the world are recognized for their exceptional innovative thinking and practical approaches to scaling supply chain transformation across the United Kingdom’s National Health Services (NHS) Scan4Safety initiative to 148 trusts of NHS England. Congratulations to the winning teams:
1st Place – Tied
Mariska van der Feen, Tessa Jansen, Eva Jelovčan (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
James J. Hall, Olivia Poulin, Matthew McGarr, Michael Tolentino (Brock University)
Michael is a Biomed student at Brock University.
3rd Place
Scarlett Kelly, Chris Smith (Dalhousie University)
Prizes courtesy of TECSYS Inc. are awarded to the top three teams. Winners also receive an invitation to the Annual SCAN Health Global Networking Event in Alberta, Canada on June 5, 2018. This exclusive event provides an opportunity to engage with global leaders from industry, health systems, government and academia to examine key dimensions of supply chain infrastructure to improve health system sustainability, population health and economic growth.
Proposals were judged by an esteemed international panel including Chair Dr. Kevin Schulman of Duke University (US), joined by Mr. Robert Drag of Salisbury NHS (UK), Mr. Desmond Griffiths of Electromac (CAN), Mr. Richard Martin of TECSYS (CAN), Dr. Liz Mear of the Innovation Agency (UK), Mr. Graham Medwell of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS (UK), Dr. Libby Roughead of the University of South Australia (AUS), Dr. Karin Schnarr of Wilfrid Laurier University (CAN) and Dr. Dave Williams, Canadian astronaut, physician and CEO (retired).
This unique virtual competition enables emergent leaders from business schools around the world to compete and demonstrate their exceptional skill, knowledge and innovative ideas to advance health sector supply chain innovation. The competition encourages cross-disciplinary teams from business and health sciences to collaborate to build leadership capacity in health sector supply chain. To further strengthen knowledge of business processes in health systems each team has access to a panel of internationally renowned leaders and experts in health system supply chain and logistics strategy. The next SCAN Health Virtual Business Case Competition will launch Fall 2018. Details and updates can be found at www.SCANHealth.ca.
About SCAN Health
SCAN Health is an international knowledge translation organization funded by the Government of Canada, Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) and hosted by the University of Windsor’s Odette School of Business. Spanning five countries, including Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada – and with over one hundred partners from industry, healthcare, government and academia – SCAN Health will advance global capacity to adopt and scale best practices in healthcare supply chain to offer traceability of products and care processes from bench to bedside to patient outcomes.
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SCAN Health Media Contact:
Kathryn Cox
(905) 213-8384
Kathryn.Cox.SCANHealth@uwindsor.ca
Biological Sciences, Biomed, Faculty of Mathematics and Science
Categories: News
Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
Guy Bertrand
UCSD-CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California San Diego, La Jolla
DATE: Friday, April 27
TIME: noon
LOCATION: H313
Stable carbenes and related species as powerful tools in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry
Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Seminar Series
Categories: Events
A Brock University student has scored third place in a national science research video contest, with two other Brock student videos among the contest’s Top 15 finalists.
Science, Action! features student-produced, 60-second videos on research projects funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), one of Brock’s major research funders.
Taylor Lidster took third place with her video, On the Fly. Two other videos – produced by Matthew Mueller and the team of Zakia Dahi and Jina Nanayakkara — were included in the Top 15 of finalists from universities across Canada.
All four students are from the Department of Biological Sciences. Mueller, Dahi and Lidster are master’s students, while Nanayakkara has just completed her undergraduate degree.
“It’s wonderful to see Brock student researchers being recognized nationally, both for the excellence of their research projects and for their ability to explain the impact and significance of their work,” says Brock Vice-President, Research Tim Kenyon.
“The remarkable extent of Brock students’ success in the Science, Action! program is a powerful indication of their calibre, and a great credit to the training and research mentorship they receive from Brock University professors,” he says.
Lidster’s On the Fly shows how the fruit fly is used to study inflammation in the gut. The researchers use genetic techniques and microscopy to see any changes in the gut environment, good or bad.
Mueller’s Cell Talk explains that the root cause of several contemporary diseases is a disruption in communication between cells, examines the language that cells use to talk to one another, and describes how this changes in diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer.
DNA: A Mobile Molecule, by Dahi and Nanayakkara, explores how DNA sequences that move around – called “jumping genes” – copy and paste themselves into different parts of our genomes. The research aims to understand how “jumping genes” have led to human variation and disease.
The Science, Action! contest enables students to present their NSERC-funded science research to a wide audience.
Students entering the contest faced some big challenges. In mid-February, NSERC posted 75 video entries from students across Canada; seven of these videos were from Brock. The 25 videos with the most views by March 2 would then make it to the next round. Five Brock videos made it into the Top 25. From there, a panel of judges selected the Top 15.
Read the full story here
Brock University is mourning the loss of long-time employee Darrell Short, who spent nearly four decades working with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Short died Tuesday, April 17 at the age of 61.
He held many roles with the University over the years, including teaching assistant, instructor and course co-ordinator, and was known for helping and inspiring countless students in a multitude of courses.
“His contributions to the Department were immeasurable, touching the lives of students, faculty and staff members alike,” said a tribute on the Department’s website. “He will be missed very much by all of us. It simply won’t be the same place now that he has passed.”
For more information, please see Short’s obituary.
During the Faculty of Graduate Studies’ Mapping the New Knowledges Conference awards ceremony, two graduate students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science were honoured with the 2018 Jack M. Miller Excellence in Research Award. This award is given to research-based graduate students who are working on innovative projects.
This year’s Faculty of Mathematics and Science recipients are:
Alyssa Davis
MSc Earth Science
Studying “Paleoatmospheric and paleoenvironmental interpretations of the Early Paleozoic”
Guan Wang
PhD Chemistry
Studying, “Analytical devides and assays for point-of-care disease diagnosis”
Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
David Liscombe
Vineland Research and Innovation Centre
DATE: Friday, April 20
TIME: noon
LOCATION: H313
Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Seminar Series
Categories: Events
