The 3^rd Annual George Guilbault Symposium was hosted at Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland on the 13^th and 14^th September 2016.

Applications are invited for this full time position in the Department of Chemistry at UCC.

The very successful International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC2016), with over 560 delegates, 117 oral and 330 poster presentations, concluded with the final of the poster competition and award ceremony in Devere Hall on Sept 1^st.

The Department of Chemistry, the ERI and CRAC would like to extend a very warm welcome to Dr. Ivan Kourtchev, our new lecturer in Physical Chemistry.

Dr. Colm O’Dwyer has been appointed as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of Nature.

Congratulations to Mary McKee, winner of best oral presentation in the 14^th Annual Eli Lilly Postgraduate Research Symposium, held in UCC last week.

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Mary McKee, winner of the best Flash Presentation at the GP2A in Angers, France.

Well done to Andres Felipe Molina Osorio, a PhD student under the supervision of , who won the PCCP poster prize in the field of physical chemistry at the Electrochem 2016 conference.

Dr. Colm O'Dwyer has been appointed as an Associate Editor of RSC's journal RSC Advances.

The silicon chip — the tiny synthetic “brain” inside smartphones, laptops and electronic devices — could eventually be replaced by a material made in Cork.