SSNMR at the U of A

500 MHz Spectrometer Upgraded: the console on our 500 MHz solid-state NMR system has been upgraded to a state-of-the-art Bruker NEO 500 console. This is a three-channel system, permitting solid-state NMR measurements in the 23 to 500 MHz range. The NEO replaces an Avance 500, which was installed in the autumn of 2002.

Congratulations to Rod Wasylishen who was honoured by the University of Manitoba at the 2018 Faculty of Science Pathways to Acheivement Alumni Awards on Feb. 1, 2018. Click here for more details.

Congratulations to Maria Matlinska, who won first prize in the Physcial Chemistry Oral Presentations category at the 31^st Western Canada Undergraduate Chemistry Conference held at the University of Alberta. Maria is co-supervised by Profs. Rod Wasylishen and Vladimir Michaelis.

Good luck to Alex Faucher, who has accepted a position at the Materials and Surface Science Institute of the University of Limerick, in Limerick, Ireland.

Congratulations to Michelle Ha, who graduated with a B.Sc. degree from the U. of A. on June 14, 2016. Michelle is working in our lab for the summer and will continue her studies, working towards her M.Sc. degree with Professor Michaelis at the U. of A this fall. Good luck!

Congratulations to Alex Faucher, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled NMR Spectroscopy of Exotic Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solids, on Jan. 7, 2016. Alex has accepted a post-doctoral position with Professor Michaelis at the U. of A. Good luck!.

Welcome and good luck to Professor Vlad Michaelis, who has joined the Physical Division of the Chemistry Department at the U of A. Vlad graduated from the University of Manitoba and has just completed a post-doctoral fellowship at MIT. He will formally take up his position in January, 2016, and plans to make extensive use of solid-state NMR spectroscopy in his research. See his web page here.

Welcome to Glenn Penner from the University of Guelph, who will be working in our lab for the next few months.

Good luck to Huaguang Yu, who has returned to Yangzhou University in China after a two-year sabbatical leave in our lab.

Congratulations to Alex Faucher who was awarded an FGSR (University of Alberta) Travel Award to attend the 56^th ENC in Pacific Grove, California.

An Avance III narrow-bore 400 MHz solid-state NMR spectrometer has recently been installed in our lab. The system is equipped with a double-resonance 5 mm stationary probe, tuning from below ¹⁵N to above ³¹P. A double-resonance 4 mm MAS probe, with a similar tuning range, is expected soon. Both probes have variable-temperature capability.

The 56^th Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance, held in Copper Mountain, Colorado from July 13^th to 17^th, 2014, was very successful for the Wasylishen lab! Congratulations to Rod Wasaylishen, who presented the Vaughan lecture at this conference. Named for Robert W. Vaughan, this symposium is the highlight of the conference. Click here for more details. Congratulations also to Alex Faucher, who was awarded one of six prizes for the best graduate student posters at the conference.

1984 - 2014 After 30 years, our Bruker/Oxford 4.7 T NMR magnet was decomissioned on July 13, 2014. It was part of the first MSL NMR system and also one of the first widebore NMR magnets installed in Canada. Although the console was replaced by a CMX console in 1998, the magnet continued to serve us faithfully, even through a move from Nova Scotia to Alberta in 2000. It has been used to provide tens of thousands of NMR spectra of a significant portion of the NMR periodic table, has helped train over two dozen graduate students and has provided data for hundreds of publications. The system was decomissioned to make room for a Bruker 400 MHz NMR system.

Congratulations to Jennnifer Wu, who obtained her B.Sc. degree, with specialization in chemistry, on June 10, 2014. Jennifer is working in our lab this summer.

Congratulations to Rosha Teymoori, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, titled Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Computational Investigations of Half-Integer Quadrupolar Nuclei, on March 7, 2014.

Good luck to Jennifer Wu who is doing a fourth-year research project in our lab this term.

With the resignation of Robin Harris, Rod is now the sole editor-in-chief of emagres. Click here for the Jan., 2014 bulletin, including a list of articles published in this journal during 2013.

Congratulations to Piotr Garbacz from the University of Warsaw who successfully defended his doctoral thesis, titled NMR Studies of Magnetic Shielding in Gaseous Hydrogen and Solid Iridium Hydrides, on Dec. 20, 2013. Piotr was co-supervised by Rod Wasylishen (Alberta)
and Karol Jackowski (Warsaw).

Congratulations to Rod Wasylishen who has been invited as a keynote speaker to the 2013 CANMRDG (Chicago Area NMR Discussion Group) on Nov. 9 at the Argonne National Lab in Argonne, IL.

Congratulations! To Laure Soucémarianadin, from the Department of Renewable Resources, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled Black Carbon in Quebec Boreal Black Spruce Forests. Solid-state NMR spectroscopy was an important component of her research; she was co-supervised by Rod Wasylishen.

Welcome! To Professor Huaguang Yu, who is a visiting scholar from Yangzhou University (P.R. China). Professor Yu will be working in our lab for the next year.

Welcome to Michelle Ha and Jennifer Wu, undergraduate students studying at the U of A. Michelle and Jennifer are working in our lab for the summer.

Congratulations to Rod Wasylishen, who has been awarded the J Gordin Kaplan Award by the University of Alberta. The award "For Excellence in Research" will be handed out Sept. 19, 2013. Click here for more details and here for a list of Kaplan Laureates.

Congratulations to Brett Feland who successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis March 21. Well done Brett!

The Encyclopedia of NMR published by Wiley. Editors in chief: Robin K. Harris and Roderick E. Wasylishen. Click here for more details.

Congratulations to Rod Wasylishen, who was selected as the 2014 Vaughan Lecturer at the Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry. The award is named in honour of Robert Vaughan; click here for more details.

Welcome! To Renee Duan, an undergraduate student studying at UBC. Renee will be working in our lab for the summer.

Congratulations to Rosha Teymoori who has been awarded a 2012 Graduate Student Teaching Award. Well done!

New Hardware! New resonators for our microimaging system will allow investigations involving nuclei such as ¹⁹F, ²³Na or ¹²⁹Xe.

Welcome to Piotr Garbacz of the University of Warsaw. Piotr is a graduate student working in the Faculty of Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Dr. Karol Jackowski. He will be working in our lab through the summer.

Congratulations to Brett Feland who has been awarded an Alberta Graduate Student Scholarship from Alberta Learning Information Services.

Congratulations to Rod Wasylishen who received the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award For Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance, in Somerset NJ, on Nov. 14, 2011.

Norman F. Ramsey: 1915 - 2011. Amongst his many contributions, Professor Ramsey, in whose honour this website is named, was a pioneer in NMR spectroscopy. Sadly, he died on Novermber 4, 2011. Click here for more details.

Congratulations to Rod Wasylishen who has been honoured with a special issue of Can. J. Chem. Part 2 of this issue was published in September.

Congratulations to former group member Ming Wang and his wife Wei Sun on the birth of their daughter Sara Jiahui Wang. Sara was born in Houston Texas on Aug. 30. Mom and baby are fine.

Congratulations to Rod Wasylishen who has been honoured with a special issue of Can. J. Chem.

Welcome to future NMR spectroscopist Alton William Skelhorne. Alton was born on March 28, 2011. Proud parents are former group member Myrlene Gee and her husband Aaron Skelhorne.

Congratulations to Brett Feland who received a Dr. R. Norman and Magda Kemeny Jones Travel Award to attend Pacifichem 2010.

Congratulations to Ming Wang who defended his Ph.D. thesis Nov. 24, 2010 and to Jerrod Dwan who defended his M.Sc. thesis Nov. 27, 2010.

Good luck to new graduate students Brett Feland, Yimeng Li and Alexandra Palech.

Welcome! To Yimeng Li, who has joined our group after graduating with a B.Sc.-Hons degree from the University of Winnipeg. Good luck Yimeng!

Congratulations! To Alex Palech, who graduated June 2, 2010 with a B.Sc. with Specialization in Chemistry. Alex is working in our lab this summer.

New hardware for our lab! Varian 1.2 mm UltraFast MAS and 3.2 mm MAS probes for a VNMRS 600 MHz NMR spectrometer were recently installed.