The Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC 2017) was hosted by the UofA chemistry students on May 3-5, 2017. The conference was highlighted by an ACS on-Campus event featuring American Chemical Society (ACS) editors and keynote talks by our own Jillian Buriak and Robert Campbell.
UofA students excelled at the conference, receiving 10 awards. Congratulations to all participants.
Analytical - oral - 1st prize: Stephanie Schneider (Styler group)
ChemBiol - poster - runner up: Jessica Wickware (Derda group)
Biochem - oral - 1st prize Shubham Banga (Michalak group, Biochemistry
Biochem - oral - runner up: Abhi Aggarwal (Campbell group)
Organic - poster - 1st prize: Mark Aloisio (Stryker group)
Organic - poster - (tie) runner up: Michael Bell (Lowary group) & Rei Chee (Williams group)
Physical - oral - 1st prize: Maria Matlinska (Michaelis group)
Physical - oral - 2nd prize: Mohamad al-Jabiri (Jaeger group)
Computational - oral - 1st prize: Zhibo Wang (Brown group)
Computational - poster - 1st prize: Cat-Tuong Huynh (Brown group)
Computational - poster - runner up: Xin Wang (Klassen group)
Thanks to our many sponsors, to the student organizing committee led by Cat-Tuong Huynh, and to faculty reps Dr. Sarah Styler and Dr. Florrie Williams for a great event.