The newest issue of our IYCN Newsletter is here! You can read about IYCN and the Opening Ceremony of the International Year of the Periodic Table and the Global Women’s Breakfast: Empowering Women in Chemistry. You can also find information related to IYCN Experiment Competition that is open until May 15, 2019 and more!!

Enjoy reading!

 

 

The French Young Chemists' Network (RJ-SCF) and, under the patronage of IUPAC, are inviting to the You Pack for Young Chemists in Politics event. This event will be part of the Younger Chemists Programming, taking place at the 47th IUPAC World Chemistry Conference in Paris later this year.

Registration is required, but is free! Please register using this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/you-pack-for-young-chemists-in-politics-event-tickets-59112170092

For more information on the Theme 7 (Young Scientists Symposium), please go on IUPAC website: https://www.iupac2019.org/young-scientists-programme

IYCN had the opportunity to be present this year in PITTCON, an annual conference and exposition for laboratory science, which combines participants from industry, academia and government from more than 90 countries. Fatima Mustafa, IYCN Secretary, had the chance to promote IYCN in this international event by personally meeting chemists from Asia, Europe, Africa, and North & South Americas mainly during the expo, and poster the sessions. Young chemists were excited about IYCN and were encouraged to share the news about IYCN in their respective communities through various IYCN promotional materials. Many have showed active interest in joining the network.

 

A group of young chemists at PITTCON, Left to right: Fatima Mustafa, Madhuri Jayathirtha, Devika Channaveerappa, and Yaroslav Filipov (Clarkson University)

On April 1st, 2019, IUPAC announced the names of ten next elements of the Periodic Table of Younger Chemists.

Congratulations to all new awardees:

- Sc, Dr Chenjie Zeng, from China, Postdoctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania (USA)

-Sm, Dr. Felicia Lim, from Malaysia, Researcher at Malaysia campus of Monash University (Malaysia)

-Rb, Dr. Felix Rizzuto, from Australia, Research fellow at McGill University (Canada)

-Pr, Dr. Anna Regoutz, from Austria, Research fellow at Imperial College (UK)

-Nd, Dr. Marian Nkansah, from Ghana, Senior lecturer at KNUST University in Kumasi (Ghana)

-Ge, Dr. Jesús Esteban Serrano, from Spain, Research fellow at Max Planck Inst for Chemical Energy Conversion (Germany)

-Dy, Mr Raymond Borg, from The United States, postgrad scholar at University of California Santa Barbara (USA)

-Ar, Dr. Cynthia Ibeto, from Nigeria, Senior lecturer at University of Nigeria in Nuskka, (Nigeria)

-Eu, Dr. Ľubomír Švorc, from Slovakia, Associate Prof. at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (Slovakia)

-Kr, Dr. Philippe Wilson, from United Kingdom, Senior lecturer at De Montfort University in Leicester (UK)