February 2007 Congratulations to Dr. Silvia Borsacchi who defended her PhD thesis on Friday, February 16th at the Università degli Studi di Pisa in Pisa, Italy. Silvia carried out research in the Wasylishen lab for a three month period in 2006. We are very proud of you, Silvia!!! Un bacino!!
December 2006 Congratulations to Dr. Kirk Feindel who defended his PhD thesis entitled, "Insights into the Performance of Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells Obtained from 1H NMR Microscopy Experiments" on December 4, 2006. Kirk has accepted a post-doctoral position at the Victoria University of Wellington through the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences in Wellington, New Zealand under the supervision of Prof. Paul Callaghan. Good luck with everything Kirk!
December 2006 Congratulations to Dr. Kris Ooms who defended his PhD thesis entitled, "NMR Investigations of Porous Materials using Continuous-Flow Hyperpolarized Xenon-129" on December 1, 2006. Kris has accepted a post-doctoral position at the University of Delaware under the supervision of Prof. Tatyana Polenova. Good luck in future endeavors, Kris.
November 2006 A warm congratulations to Dr. Rod Wasylishen upon being elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Each year their Council elects members whose "efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished". The honor of being elected a Fellow of AAAS began in 1874. Dr. Wasylishen is being honored for fundamental contributions to the understanding of solid-state NMR spectroscopy of quadrupolar nuclei and its application to solutions of problems in molecular structure and dynamics.
October 2006 Check out our cover article in Inorganic Chemistry: Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 8492-8499.
September 2006 The Solid-State NMR group welcomes new graduate students, Rose Teymoori and Ming Wang, and an undergraduate student, Melissa Faichuk!
August 2006 Michelle Forgeron successfully defended PhD thesis entitled, "Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Computational Investigations of Exotic Nuclei".
January 2006 The NMR Group welcomes Silvia Borsacchi, a visiting graduate student from the Università degli Studi di Pisa in Pisa, Italy. Welcome to Edmonton, Silvia!
November 2005 The Solid-State NMR Group welcomes Prof. Gustavo Aucar, from the Physics Department, Northeastern University Corrientes, Argentina, who will be visiting our lab from November 7-9. Prof. Aucar specializes in the application of theoretical devices, such as polarization propagator methods, to calculate molecular magnetic properties.
September 2005 The Wasylishen group would like to welcome friend and colleague, Klaus Eichele, to the lab.
June 2005 Three Wasylishen Group members are awarded prizes for best presentations at this year's CSC Conference in Saskatoon, SK. Congrats to Kirk (oral presentation), Mat (poster presentation), and Michelle (poster presentation).
June 2005 The Bruker 900 MHz UltrastabilizedTM NMR spectrometer arrives safely in Ottawa at the National Ultra-High Field NMR Facility for Solids.
March 2005 After a three-year stay as a PDF with the Wasylishen Group, Renee has accepted a post-doctoral position with Prof. Arno P. M. Kentgens at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Congratulations and best of luck, Renee.
January 2005 Congratulations to Mat and Jess who are engaged and will be married in July.
January 2005 Congratulations to Fu and Jiang who were married in January.