New Edition of ChemYork Published
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Posted on Monday 21 July 2025
The latest edition of our twice-yearly magazine brings recent news from the Department celebrating the achievements of our colleagues, students and alumni.
Among the features in this latest edition:
- A conversation with our new Head of Department Dr Derek Wann
- Award-winning teaching of former student Cheryl Alexander and her assistance dog Tyrian
- Celebrating the work of our technical support staff
- How decay in two-million-year-old teeth led to new insights into a now-extinct human relative, from Professor Kirsty Penkman and Dr Marc Dickinson;
- Insight into work being carried out using our cryo-electron microscope from Professor Jamie Blaza
- An award on an Honorary FRSC to Professor Sir John Holman
- Introducing our new colleague, Professor Antoine Buchard
- Awards to research students
- A breakthrough in selective deuteration from Drs Chris Spicer and Ksenia Stankevich
- Reflections on the element iodine in Professor Lucy Carpenter’s research work