Anthony Davis awarded Royal Medal for Applied Sciences by the Royal Society
The School of Chemistry's Professor Anthony Davis has been awarded the prestigious Royal Medal for Applied Sciences by the Royal Society.
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Varinder Aggarwal elected Foreign Fellow of Indian National Science Academy
Varinder Aggarwal FRS, Alfred Capper Pass Professor of Chemistry, has been elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the largest and most prestigious national academy in India.
New NERC grant to study the breakdown of next-generation refrigerant gases in the atmosphere
School of Chemistry researchers Dr Kieran Stanley, Dr Maria de los Angeles Garavagno, Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, Professor Dudley Shallcross, Dr Angelina Wenger and Dr Anwar Khan have been awarded a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to study the environmental fates of a new generation of fluorocarbon gases being used as replacements for hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in refrigeration, and as propellant and foam-blowing gases.
Anthony Davis awarded Royal Medal for Applied Sciences by the Royal Society
The School of Chemistry's Professor Anthony Davis has been awarded the prestigious Royal Medal for Applied Sciences by the Royal Society.
The Wilson Baker Symposium 2025
The long-running Wilson Baker Symposium returns to the School of Chemistry on Wednesday, 26 November 2025.
Multidisciplinary research demonstrates synthesis of a new carbon allotrope
A collaborative multidisciplinary project involving researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Oxford and Manchester as well as collaborators at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, has demonstrated the synthesis of a new allotrope of carbon, a cyclocarbon that is stable enough at room temperature for spectroscopic characterisation in solution.
The Stone Symposium 2025
The prestigious Stone Symposium returns to the School of Chemistry on Wednesday, 12 November 2025.
Grant awarded to explore how quantum spin-entanglement dictates photochemical reaction yields
A grant of £1m has been awarded to the School of Chemistry's Dr Tom Oliver and his US collaborator Professor Stephen Bradforth (University of Southern California) for a collaborative three-year project entitled "Quantum Coherence and Correlations in Condensed Phase Photochemical Reaction Dynamics".
Symposium held in memory of Dr Chris Adams
The School of Chemistry hosted a symposium on June 27 in memory of Dr Chris Adams, who died in 2022.
Chemistry breakthrough has potential to make more effective cancer drugs with less harmful side effects
Researchers from the School of Chemistry have led a study which, for the first time, reports the discovery of a unique way to control and modify a type of compound widely used in medicines, including a drug used to treat breast cancer.
Dek Woolfson to lead new global Centre for Protein Design
The School of Chemistry's Professor Dek Woolfson will be leading a new global Centre for Protein Design (CPD) following a major Novo Nordisk Foundation grant.