Royal Society of Chemistry

Cruden has secured over 72 million in research grants over her career, including a 2021-24 million New Frontiers Research Fund transformation grant, which forms the basis of the Carbon to Metal Coating Institute.

Cruden's accomplishments include a fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada, fellowship in the American Chemical Society, the Chemical Institute of Canada, the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK, and the CNRS in France.

She is an elected international fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science.

Cruden has won numerous awards for her work, including the Arthur C.

It was a splendid victory which amazed all scientists versed in the study of crystals and of chemistry.

The Academy of Sciences gave prolonged attention to this discovery, and the Society of Chemistry bestowed upon its author a prize of fifteen hundred francs, which it had offered to anyone who could produce this extraordinary acid.

With his usual disinterestedness, Pasteur spent half of this sum in the purchase of such instruments as were lacking in the Strasbourg laboratory.

The government took notice of the achievements of the young scientist that were so magnificently crowned by a success which his own masters had not expected, and Louis Pasteur received the Cross of the Legion of Honor when he was barely thirty years of age.

Both panels convened thought leaders on the occasion of the ACS 150th anniversary to explore how chemistry societies might support science into the future.

Is chemistry still the central science? And how should societies like ACS and the Royal Society of Chemistry adapt to AI, climate change, and a shifting global landscape? This episode covers the first panel, From Education to Science Diplomacy, where our panelists discussed how societies can remain relevant and vital for the education pipeline, regulators, and multilateral institutions.

The episode for the second panel, The View from Industry, will air in two weeks.

We hope you enjoy the rousing discussion.

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Uh, Matt Endean is at a drinks reception at The Royal Society of Chemistry.

Oh, nice.

Uh, so I'd imagine the drinks are very colorful there.

You have to undergo separate training, typically completing 12 modules.

And then you have to be assessed in the UK by the Royal Society of Chemistry or whoever the scientific body is.

And it's a very intense hour, 45-minute viva in some cases where they can ask you questions.

It could be anything to do with the supply chain, anything to do with the manufacturing phase, all the way from formulation to analyticals to manufacturing.

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All right.

So about the radio tour, so talk and news radio.

So I don't know enough about the Australian context yet to name specific organizations, but in England, certainly when I was an English teacher, you know, I was joining the subject associations like NATO, the English Association, the Historical Association is another great example.

You know, the Royal Society of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry.

I was attending or watching online some of the free lectures with the British Library.

I was reading edu books.

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Here to help clean up the confusion around these products is fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and independent consultant specializing in surfactants, Professor Steven Abbott.

Welcome to the studio, Steven.

Great to be here.