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Over the summer the group welcomed Mark Higbee II and Paula Nino-Garcia from UFl as part of an initiative set-up by Dr Lee Fawcett (Associate Dean for Global) and Grace Barker (Study Abroad Manager). The students really did themselves and their university proud, making fluorescent phosphonium salts as multimodality medical imaging agents.

Their project was so successful it has set-up a new collaboration between the LJH group and Professor Luiz Passalacqua at UFl’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Well done Mark and Paula!

Congratulations to Muhammad Muhammad who passed his PhD viva on the 8th of December under the scrutiny of External Examiner, Professor Declan Gilheany from University College Dublin and our very own Internal Examiner, Dr Mike Carroll. A huge thank you to both for your efforts – much appreciated.

Another student from the group who recently successfully defended his PhD thesis is pictured here too (left), Mohammed Alshajajir – well done too!

Here the focus is on Chemistry undergraduates, getting them on industrial placements, study abroad and creating Hexi modules:

Pizza Model Approach for Raising the Employability of Chemistry Undergraduates – 2024 Horizon Prize for Education winner

A blog on how to create a team to embed employability in to HE – who do you need, when do you need them and how to get started?

CATE 2023: Pizza model: embedding employability and enterprise at university | Advance HE

NTF/CATE – Press Office – Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)

Delighted to be given the opportunity to Chair a session on Active Learning at the forthcoming Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference – Making Connections, Innovating and Sharing Pedagogy (ukstemconference.com to be held on the 26th and 27th of June in my old happy home of the University of Bristol.