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RESEARCH NEWS
H index > 50, Citations > 7500.
Conducting gels - fro waste to wealth - our latest research extracts precious metals from waste and makes high-tech materials
MChem project student, Edward Howe, develops new drug release gel for painkillers
Combining photopatterning and self-assembly we can make multidomain hybrid gels with exquisite control and potential applications in tissue engineering
We are developing new 'SAMul' nanomedicines to help with patient recovery after surgery
Strong but responsive - Gels that do two things at once
Mallard Blue - a heparin sensor named after a steam train
4.1M Euro SMART-NET European Research Network Funded

GROUP NEWS
Dan Cornwell wins the Science Faculty Prize at the York Talks
Babatunde Okesola has been named as one of the RSC's 175 Diverse Faces of Chemistry
Anna Barnard, Will Edwards, Stephen Bromfield and Babatunde Okesola - FOUR consecutive DKS Group winners of the York Chemistry KMS Award
Stephen Bromfield, won a silver medal for his 'SET for Britain' poster at the Houses of Parliament
Will and Stephen won prizes for their talks at MASC2012 in London and MASC 2013 in Glasgow

EDUCATION NEWS
Dave is taking part in a public event at the Royal Institution on the Science of Breaking Bad
iTube, YouTube, WeTube, ChemTube - Dave's social media YouTube project
This project has now been published in Journal of Chemical Education
In the spirit of public engagement, Dave's 'Breaking Bad' exam question made the local, national and international media

AWARDS AND PRIZES
Dave's plenary lecture on LGBT scientists was part of the NUS-award-winning 'LGBT Event of the Year' at Reading University
During 2014, Dave has been named as one of the RSC's 175 Diverse Faces of Chemistry
National Teaching Fellowship Award 2013
Shortlisted for Times Higher Education's 'Most Innovative Teacher' Award 2012
Royal Society of Chemistry Corday Morgan Award 2012

OPINION AND COMMENT
Dave gave the opening pleanary lecture at the UK's first ever UK LGBT STEMinar - his lecture is available online
Dave wrote an influential endpoint about how we should educate our students with >1000 likes/shares on social media
Dave has been interviewed for the leading journal, Science, about his career
Dave has written an influential comment piece on the experiences of LGBT scientists
Dave has been interviewed about his research and teaching philosophy - perturbing the system!
Find out more by following Dave on Twitter @professor_dave (not all chemistry, all views personal!)

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