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2005 Award Winners

Hélène Lebel is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Université de Montréal. She received her B.Sc. degree in biochemistry from the Université Laval in 1993. She then started her Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the chemistry department of the Université de Montréal under the supervision of professor André B. Charette as a 1967 Science and Engineering NSERC Fellow. During her graduate studies, she worked at the development of new methodologies for the stereoselective cyclopropanation of allylic alcohols and she performed the total enantioselective synthesis of a natural polycyclopropane, (+)-U-106305. In 1998, she joined the research group of professor Eric Jacobsen at Harvard University as a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow where she completed the total enantioselective synthesis of Taurospongin A. As an assistant professor, Lebel was the recipient of a University Faculty Award (1999-04) from NSERC. She has also received the Boehringer Ingelheim Yound Investigator (2001), the Synthesis-Synlett-Journals Award, (2001), and the Research Corporation Award (2001-2002) The CNC/IUPAC Travel Award will allow her to attend the 13th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis in Geneva, Switzerland in July 2005.

 

Cory Pye (b. 1971) attended Cabrini High School and Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. He graduated from Memorial University in 1992 (B. Sc. Hon., Chemistry and Applied Mathematics), carrying out computational organic chemistry with Raymond Poirier and Jean Burnell. While pursuing his studies of geometry optimization for his doctorate at Memorial, he began collaborating with Wolfram Rudolph, a Raman spectroscopist. In December 1996, he married Michelle Bourgeois. During a two-year postdoctoral stint with Tom Ziegler in Calgary, the COSMO solvation model was implemented in the ADF package and applied to the study of ion pairing in olefin polymerization catalysts. In December 1998, he became the proud father of Alexander and Christopher, and in September 1999 accepted a position at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. He was recently promoted to associate professor and currently sits on the University Senate and Board of Governors. His research includes the theoretical study of ion pairing in aqueous solution. Pye will use his travel award to attend the International Conference on Solution Chemistry in Portoroz, Slovenia in August 2005.

 

Kevin Smith is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Prince Edward Island. His research is focused on the synthesis and reactivity of paramagnetic organometallic chromium compounds of relevance to catalytic carbon-carbon bond forming reactions. Smith received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, and completed his Ph.D. in 1998, working with Peter Legzdins at the University of British Columbia. From 1998 to 2000, he was a Marie Curie TMR Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Rinaldo Poli at the Université de Bourgogne. Smith will use his CNC-IUPAC Travel Award to attend the 13th IUPAC Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis in Geneva, Switzerland in July 2005.

 

Yan Alexander Wang, MCIC, is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1995 under the supervision of Ernest R. Davidson. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Robert G. Parr from 1995 to 1997 and UCLA with Emily A. Carter from 1997 to 2001. Since joining UBC in August 2001, he has been actively conducting his research in the three fronts of theoretical chemistry: fundamental theory, method development, and state-of-the-art applications, including functional derivative, chemical potential, embedding method, orbital-free density functional theory, molecular simulation and modeling of chemical reactions in biological systems and on nanomaterials. He will use his CNC-IUPAC Travel Award to present a paper about his research of nanotube chemistry at the IUPAC 40th Congress in Beijing, China in August 2005.