UNews - conventional plastics /unews/industry-term/conventional-plastics en Hayes earns CAFA honour /unews/article/hayes-earns-cafa-honour <div class="field field-name-field-op-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="rnews:creator schema:creator"><div class="view view-openpublish-related-content view-id-openpublish_related_content view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-bbf44efb649dcd3a2f7545ea25175612"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="views-label views-label-title">by</span> <span class="field-content"><a href="/unews/profile/trevor-kenney">Trevor Kenney</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">September 17, 2010</span> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even" property="rnews:articlebody schema:articleBody"> <p>The <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CAFA/" rel="nofollow">Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations</a> (CAFA), the provincial organization representing academic staff associations at the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/" rel="nofollow">免费福利资源在线看片 of Alberta</a>, the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge, and <a href="http://www.athabascau.ca/" rel="nofollow">Athabasca 免费福利资源在线看片</a>, recently announced the recipients of the CAFA Distinguished Academic Awards for 2010.</p> <p>Among the recipients is Dr. Paul Hayes an Associate Professor in the Department of <a href="../../../../../../../fas/chm" rel="nofollow">Chemistry and Biochemistry</a>, who will receive the 2010 CAFA Distinguished Academic Early Career Award at an event in mid-September.</p> <p>The CAFA Distinguished Academic Early Career Award recognizes academic staff members who, at an early stage of their careers, through their research and/or other scholarly, creative or professional activities, have made an outstanding contribution to the wider community beyond the university.</p> <p>Hayes is being recognized for, among other projects, his research to find a cost-effective, environmentally sustainable 'green' alternative to conventional plastics.<br> <br> Building his research programme at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge from scratch, Hayes has been able to attract top-quality students and postdoctoral fellows to his lab. As principal investigator, he has secured multi-year external funding, including grants from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Alberta Ingenuity, NSERC, the Canada School of Energy and Environment, and GreenCentre Canada.<br> <br> Hayes' research is receiving wide attention in the scientific community, and already has resulted in an impressive string of high-profile publications in leading peer-reviewed chemistry journals, in addition to numerous invited presentations at scholarly conferences across Canada and abroad.<br> <br> His research in the field of organometallic chemistry, focusing on fundamental questions in catalysis and polymer science, addresses the need to develop new technologies for chemical conversions, which are crucial to drug development, materials synthesis, and the production of value-added chemicals.<br> <br> Specifically, his work on polylactide polymerization catalysis advances our understanding of the synthesis of 'green' polymers, that is, biodegradable polymers that can be prepared from inexpensive renewable sources, such as corn.<br> <br> This research holds the key to the challenge of producing viable alternatives to many conventional materials, such as 'green' plastic for food packaging. 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2010 20:59:55 +0000 trevor.kenney 4287 at /unews Hayes earns CAFA honour /unews/article/hayes-earns-cafa-honour-0 <div class="field field-name-field-op-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="rnews:creator schema:creator"><div class="view view-openpublish-related-content view-id-openpublish_related_content view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-f37dc0f5ce5b8fdaa48ef5440434a5c5"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="views-label views-label-title">by</span> <span class="field-content"><a href="/unews/profile/trevor-kenney">Trevor Kenney</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">September 15, 2010</span> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even" property="rnews:articlebody schema:articleBody"> <p>The <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CAFA/" rel="nofollow">Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations</a> (CAFA), the provincial organization representing academic staff associations at the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca" rel="nofollow">免费福利资源在线看片 of Alberta</a>, the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge, and <a href="http://www.athabascau.ca/" rel="nofollow">Athabasca 免费福利资源在线看片</a>, recently announced the recipients of the CAFA Distinguished Academic Awards for 2010.</p> <p>Among the recipients is Dr. Paul Hayes an Associate Professor in the Department of <a href="http://www.uleth.ca/fas/chm" rel="nofollow">Chemistry and Biochemistry</a>, who will receive the 2010 CAFA Distinguished Academic Early Career Award at an event in mid-September.</p> <p>The CAFA Distinguished Academic Early Career Award recognizes academic staff members who, at an early stage of their careers, through their research and/or other scholarly, creative or professional activities, have made an outstanding contribution to the wider community beyond the university.</p> <p>Hayes is being recognized for, among other projects, his research to find a cost-effective, environmentally sustainable 'green' alternative to conventional plastics.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field-group-format group_related_topics field-group-div group-related-topics block-title-body speed-fast effect-none"><h2><span>Related Topics</span></h2><div class="field field-name-opencalais-facility-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Facility:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/facility/university-lethbridge" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/facility/university-alberta" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">免费福利资源在线看片 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typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Paul Hayes</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-position-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Position:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/position/associate-professor" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">associate professor</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-provinceorstate-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ProvinceOrState:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/province-or-state/alberta" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Alberta</a></div></div></div></div><span property="rnews:name schema:name" content="Hayes earns CAFA honour" class="rdf-meta"></span> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:41:00 +0000 trevor.kenney 4299 at /unews