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March 2024 Congrats to Dr Will Kim!! February 2024 Congrats to Doug on CSC Catalysis award December 2023 A holiday lunch at Midi Bistro!  December 2023 Congrats to Dr. Chris Major! October 2023 Congrats to former student Meera Mehta on her appointment at Oxford! September 2023 Welcome to Elena Zelenco to the group! July 2023 Congrats to Doug on being named the "John C Polanyi Chair of Chemistry." November 2021 The Book is out! See: A Primer in
Frustrated Lewis Pair Hydrogenation (RSC Publishing) Douglas Stephan Doug's interview for the CBC Program Ideas: Meet two winners of the 2021 Killam Prize | CBC Radio Doug's interview with The Future Economy: Creativity
in Canadian Science - Douglas Stephan - TheFutureEconomy.ca Congrats to Doug on receiving the 2022 F.A. Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry from the ACS. September 2021 Welcome to our new PDF Chris Gendy from University of Alberta, via Finland. Welcome to our new PDF, Shi-Ming Chen from Peking University. Welcome to Pawel Loewe from Muenster, a student from the Deilmann lab. August 2021 CONGRATS!! to Maotong Xu on the successful defense of his outstanding thesis!! Well done Dr Xu. CONGRATS!! to Jeff Farrell on his appointment as an Asst. Professor at NTU in Taiwan.! July 2021 Glad to announce the WHOLE group has had both vaccinations! (one step closer to normal!) June 2021 CONGRATS to Diya on her defense of her PhD! Thanks to External Mark Gandelman from Israel. Congrats to Doug on receiving the Centennary Prize from the RSC in the UK. Glad to announce the WHOLE group has their first vaccine! (one more to go!). March 2021 CONGRATS to former student Dr Jeff Farrell on being appointed Assistant Professor at NTU (Taiwan) February 2021 CONGRATS to Doug on the Killam Prize! see Douglas Stephan wins 2021 Killam Prize | Department of Chemistry (utoronto.ca) January 2021  The group meeting with Dr J. Cornella from MPI. CONGRATS to Katherine Burton on the completion of her MSc. November 2020 CONGRATS to Karlee Bamford, I mean Dr Bamford! September 2020 CONGRATS TO the NEW ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Conor Pranckevicius at UBC-O! July 2020 back to the lab at 50% occupancy... June 2020 First CC Board meeting:  May 2020 COVID-19 did not stop the CSR Board meeting. After 4 years. Doug's last meeting as Chair of the board of Chemical Society Reviews was May 12 , However he has begun as Chair of The Board of Chemical Communications.  April 2020 CONGRATS to Kevin .... I mean Dr. Szkop!!! Congrats to Doug on the award of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow March 2020 Doug with Assistant Professor Chinmoy Hazra at IIT Doug in India! He visited IIT (Delhi), NISER (Bhubaneswar) and the Organometallic Chemistry Conference in Goa. (and the Taj Mahal!) Doug with Assistant Professor Chinmoy Hazra at IIT  February 2020 Doug gave student-invited lecture at Oxford! Doug gave student-invited lecture at MPI Muelheim. great fun!  Congrats to Jolie... on the defense of her PhD! September 2019: Congratulations to Levy, Julia, and James, 3 New PhDs.!! Great job! Congrats to Alvaro on submitting his MSc thesis. ! Welcome to the new group members, Jason, Linkun, Katherine and Amir May 2019: Congratulations Doug! Doug has been awarded the John C. Polyani Prize, which is awarded for "recent outstanding advancement in any NSERC supported field". The official press release can be viewed here and a video on Doug and his research can be viewed on YouTube.  Doug explaining FLP chemistry to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Welcome to Jack Lin and Vinky Wang! Jack joins the group for the summer as an undergraduate summer NSERC student. Vinky joins the lab as a volunteer student. Katherine Burton and Alina Trofimova are both continuing with the Stephan group after completing their undergraduate studies. Katherine is now a M.Sc. student and Alina will continue as volunteer student for the summer and then in fall she will be joining Andrei Yudin's group as a Ph.D. student. Congratulations to Leo (Liu) Liu and his wife on the recent birth of their daughter. April 2019: Welcome to Marten Uebing. Marten joins us the University of Muenster as a graduate student researcher, part of the IRTG program. March 2019: Congratulations Doug! Doug has been announced as the E.W.R. Steacie Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry. This award honours those whom have made outstanding contributions to the chemical sciences and Doug will receive the award, along with presenting a lecture, at this year's CSC in Quebec City. February 2019: Welcome Florenz Buss! Florenz joins our group as a visiting graduate student from the University of Muenster, as part of the IRTG program. January 2019: Welcome back to Felix Krischer and welcome to Piers St-Onge! Felix rejoins our group as a doctorate stream graduate student at the University of Toronto. Piers joins the group as a volunteer undergraduate student. December 2018: Congratulations to Eliar, Gabriel and Shanna! Eliar defended his thesis and was awarded his Ph.D. and Gabriel submitted his thesis and was awarded his M.Sc. Shanna wrote her Project Management Professional exam and has been awarded her PMP credential. Welcome to Stephen Ma! Stephen joins the Stephan group as a volunteer undergraduate student. November 2018: Congratulations to Doug Stephan and the Stephan Group! Doug and his group (current and past) has just celebrated their 500th paper accepted for publishing! Welcome to Jing Guo! Jing joins us as a new postdoctoral fellow from the Sichuan University. October 2018: Welcome to Youngsuk Kim and Lars Suesse! Both Youngsuk and Lars join the Stephan group as international visiting graduate students; Youngsuk joins us from POSTECH (South Korea) and Lars from T.U. Berlin (Germany). Doug recently attended the RSC meeting in Japan, which was held in late October.    September 2018: Welcome to John DeBackere! John joins us after completing his PhD with Professor Schrobilgen at McMaster University as our newest postdoctoral fellow. Welcome to Alina Trofima, Daniel Ebanks and Katherine Burton! Alina and Daniel are both CHM 499 students and Katherine joins us as a volunteer. August 2018: Congratulations to Karlee & Saurabh and Eliar & Star! Both couples have recently gotten engaged! Congratulations to Ryan! Ryan was recently awarded a Ontario Graduate Scholarship! July 2018: Welcome to Tytus Gralak! Tytus joins the Stephan group for the summer as a volunteer student. June 2018: Congratulations to Doug! Doug has been appointed University Professor at the University of Toronto. This is incredibly prestigious with only 56 professors at the university holding this distinguished title. The CSC 2018 in Edmonton was a Stephan Group reunion of old and new members.   Welcome back to Catherine Yao! Catherine joins the Stephan group for the summer as an undergraduate volunteer student. At the department's most recent convocation event, Doug and Rob Batey caught up and had some time to speak with Professor John Polyani, the Department of Chemistry's very own Nobel Laureate!    |
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