News

October 2023
- Wanli won the Best Student Oral Presentation Award at the Moot 34 NMR Conference held at McMaster University.

September 2023
- Julia Barker (co-supervised with Prof. Song) and Emily Toswell joined the group for their 4491 thesis research. Welcome both!

June 2023
- Jingyan was the winner of one of the three Outstanding Poster Prizes from the Materials Division of the CSC at the CSC-2023 conference held in Vancouver.

May 2022
-Welcome Giuliana Battiston joining the group for her Western Undergraduate Summer Research Internships (USRI).

April 2022
- Jiabin was awarded an ASPIRE Award for carrying out NMR measurement at MagLab.

February 2023
- Wanli won a Student Travel Stipend Award for presenting his work at 64th ENC, USA.

March 2022
- Congrats to Adam Honchar for successfully defended his 4491 theses!
-Jeff won the 2nd place in Polymer and Materials Chemistry division in SOUSCC conference (virtual) held on March 26. Congratulations Jeff!

October 2022
- Tahereh won one of the three Poster Presentation Prizes, sponsored by Suraj Manrao and JEOL in the 33rd MOOT meeting at the University of Guelph.
- Congrats to Yihao Shen for successfully defended his 4491 theses!
-Jeff won the 2nd place in Polymer and Materials Chemistry division in SOUSCC conference (virtual) held on March 26. Congratulations Jeff!

June 2022
-Wanli won the CSC Travel Awards ($1000 CAD) to attend CCCE-2022 at Calgary!
-Wanli subsequently won the 2nd student presentation prize at NMR Symposium in CCCE-2022.

May 2022
-Wanli won Aspire awards ($1400 CAD) to carry out experiments in the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, FL.!
-Adam Honchar join the group for his Western Undergraduate Summer Research Internships (USRI).

April 2022
- Congrats to Marco Quintanilla-Rivière and Jeffrey Collins for successfully defended their 4491 theses!
-Jeff won the 2nd place in Polymer and Materials Chemistry division in SOUSCC conference (virtual) held on March 26. Congratulations Jeff!

March 2022
-Vinicius Martins successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Doctor Vini!
-Wanli won student travel stipend ($600USD) to attend ENC (Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference) in Orlando, FL.

January 2022
-Yan Han Ng joins the group to pursue her master's degree. Welcome Yan!

November 2021
-Sandamini won this year’s Joseph Soltys Graduate Award.

September 2021
- Marco Quintanilla-Rivière and Jeffrey Collins join the group for their 4491 projects. Welcome both!

August 2021
- Jiabin Xu, a new graduate students joined the group. Jiabin did his MSc in Soochow University, China. He is in Western-Soochow 2+2 PhD program and co-supervised by Prof. TK Sham. Welcome Jiabin!

May 2021
- Marco Quintanilla-Rivière returned to our group for summer research. Welcome back Marco!

April 2021
- Congratulations to Angela Li for completing her master degree!
- Also, Cheers to Yan Ham and Zech Gao for completing their 4491 thesis!

February 2021
- Welcome to Dr. Natália Marins, who came from Brazil with a prestigious fellowship and jointed the group as a post-doctoral fellow.
- Congratulations to Boqing Li for completing her master degree!

January 2021
- Three new graduate students joined the group. Wanli Zhang did his MSc in Physics in Japan and jointed us to pursue his Ph.D., Jingyan Liu came from China to pursue her Ph.D. under supervision of Profs. Huang and Song, and last but not least, Tahereh Azizivahed came from Iran with a MSc degree in Organic Chemistry and jointed the group to pursue her Ph.D. Welcome to all!

September 2020
-Yihao Shen joins the group to pursue his master's degree. Welcome Yihao!
- Welcome also to our new undergraduate students Yan Ham Ng and Zech Gao (co-supervised with Prof. Song). They are doing their honours thesis research in our lab.

July 2020
- Vinicius was awarded the G. Michael and Joan Bancroft Excellence in Research. Congrats!

May 2020
- Marco joins the group for his summer research. Welcome Marco!
- Congratulations to Sandamini and Vinicius for their outstanding oral presentations on the 6.5th Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario and Quebec!

April 2020
- Congrats to Tony, Yihao, and Hanqi for successfully defended their 4491 thesis!

November 2019
- Shan Jiang successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Doctor Jiang!

October 2019
- Congratulations to Kyungseop Lee (Jay) for completing his master degree!
- Congratulations to Vinicius for the award for poster presentation on the 32nd MOOT NMR Minisymposium in Ottawa!

September 2019
- Welcome to new 4491 undergraduate students Tony Ngyugen, Yihao Shen, and Hanqi Li (co-supervised by Prof. Song)!

May 2019
- Emma Tetelbaum joins the group for her NSERC USRA summer project.

December 2018
- Congratulations to Shoushun Chen on defending his Ph.D. thesis successfully. He will continue his research in the group as a post-doctoral fellow!

September 2018
- Three new graduate students joined the group. Sandamini arrived from Sri Lanka to pursue her Ph. D. Boqing came from China to pursue her master's degree under supervision of Prof. Song and Prof. Huang, and last but not least, Angela joined the group to pursue her master's degree. Welcome to all!
- Welcome also to Connor Stewart, Connor Schram, and Zexi, who join the group to work on their 4th year research project!

March 2018
- Welcome to Yujia Wei, who joins the group for the exchange from Soochow University in China.
- Welcome to Angel! Angel joins the group as a research assistant. She did her MSc at University of Ottawa.

February 2018
- Congratulations to Karanpreet Gill, Maya Olechnowicz, and Ryan Ho on completing their Chem 4491 research project.
- Maya Olechnowicz won 2nd Place Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at SOUSCC!

January 2018
- Welcome to Dr. Ying Guo, who joins the group as a visiting professor.

December 2017
- We had two thesis defenses; congratulations to Jason (Yue) Zhang, who defended his Ph.D. thesis, and Bligh Desveaux, who defended his M. Sc. thesis! Best of luck in your future endeavours.

October 2017
- Congratulations to Bowei Wu, who wrapped up his time in the lab by defending his M. Sc. thesis.

September 2017
- Vinicius Martins has arrived from Brazil to pursue his Ph. D. in our lab at Western. Welcome Vinicius!
- We are pleased to welcome our fourth-year project (Chemistry 4491 course) students to the lab for this academic year: Karanpreet Gill, Maya Olechnowicz, and Ryan Ho.
- Congratulations to Zitong on his very successful M.Sc. thesis defense!

April 2017
- We have a new M. Sc. student who is cross-appointed between our group and Prof. Corrigan's group: Kyungseop (Jay) Lee. Welcome Jay!
- Congratulations to Aiyun (Cici) Yang, Zi Su (Grace) Wang, and Renlong Zheng for your excellent Chemistry 4491 fourth year research projects!

April 2017
- Welcome to Dr. Mansheng Chen, who joins the group for one year as a visiting scientist.

March 2017
- Yawen Wang joins the group for the summer on exchange from Soochow University in China. Welcome, Yawen!

October 2016
- A big congratulations to Tanya, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis; some of this work was just published in The Journal of the American Chemical Society!

September 2016
- Welcome to Aiyun (Cici) Yang, Zi Su (Grace) Wang, and Renlong Zheng, who are all joining us for their Chem 4491 research projects!

April 2016
- A well-earned congratulations to Sarah McKenzie and Kelly Lee on completing their Chem 4491 research projects! Kelly's work was included in our recent Chemical Communications front cover article, while Sarah's work formed the basis of a long and extensive follow-up project to be published soon.
- Welcome back to Hendrick Chan, who rejoins us as a M.Sc. candidate (co-supervised with Prof. Sham) after completing his Chem 4491 project with us last year!
- Troy Babcock has joined us as a summer student, working with Mr. Shoushun Chen.
- Hello to Xinkai Xie, who joins us for the summer on exchange from Soochow University in China.

January 2016
- We welcome a new graduate student to the group: Bligh Desveaux!

December 2015
- Congratulations to Xuzhao Zhao on defending her M.Sc. thesis!

September 2015
- Congratulations to Yuanjun Lu on defending her M.Sc. thesis!
- Welcome to new graduate students Bowei Wu and Zitong Wang!
- Greetings to Kelly Lee and Sarah McKenzie, who are joining the group for their Chem 4491 research projects.

August 2015
- Congratulations to Yue Hu on defending his Ph.D. thesis!

April 2015
- Congratulations to Hendrick Chan on completing his Chem 4491 research project, it resulted in an invited publication!
- Renlong Zheng joins the group (co-supervised by Prof. Flemming) for a summer project.

December 2014
- Best wishes to Dr. Wei D. Wang, Dr. Farhana Gul-E-Noor, and Dr. Haiyan Mao as they conclude their terms in the group as post-doctoral fellows!

September 2014
- Hendrick Chan joins the group for his Chem 4491 research project.
- Shan Jiang joins the group as a master student, co-supervised by Dr. Huang and Dr. Song.

August 2014
- Maxwell Goldman successfully defended his MSc thesis. Congratulations, Max!

July 2014
- Prof. Huang is selected as the chair of the department! Congratulations on the new position!

May 2014
- Ruilin Liang joins the group as a joint co-op student, working with both Dr. Huang and Dr. Song.

January 2014
- Dr. Bryan Lucier joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher.
- Yue Zhang, Xuzhao Zhao and Mohammad Majibur Rahman join the group as graduate students.