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Chemistry student wins Reckitt Sustainability Challenge prize
Jed Walsh, a final year Chemistry MChem, BSc student, was awarded the second place prize in the Reckitt Sustainability Challenge 2024.
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'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent'
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QS World University Rankings 2025
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Our world-leading research cuts across the fields of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. The themes of our research groups are all at the disciplinary interfaces of chemistry, with: physics, geology and biology, physics and mathematics, biology and medicine, materials science, medicine and chemical engineering.
Chemistry graduate wins prestigious Salters’ Award 2024
Jo Morton, Chemistry with a Year in Industry graduate, has won the Salters’…
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Scientists have found a way to create artificial sugars that could lead to…
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Jed Walsh, a final year Chemistry MChem, BSc student at the University of…
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The 2024 School of Chemistry Postgraduate Conference took place on the 11 and…
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Speaker: Stephanie Greed, Nature Review Chemistry Editor
Wednesday 16 October 2024, 15:00 - 16:00
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Martin Fascione, University of York
Wednesday 23 October 2024, 15:00 - 16:00
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