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Professor Geoff Jameson was awarded the 2011 New Zealand Association of Scientists’ Marsden Medal. The Marsden Medal is awarded for a lifetime of outstanding service to the cause or profession of science, in recognition of service rendered to the cause or profession of science in the widest connotation of the phrase.

Prof David Williams was awarded the 2011 New Zealand Institute of Chemistry’s Maurice Wilkins Centre Prize. The prize is awarded to a member of the Institute who has made a significant contribution to some branch of chemical science, in the past five years.

This week two of our Principal Investigators Professor Richard Blaikie and Professor Pablo Etchegoin were elected as Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Our Christchurch-based research teams have been disrupted again by two severe earthquakes this afternoon, the first at 1.00pm (magnitude 5.5) and the second at 2.20pm (magnitude 6.0).

The Board of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology is delighted to announce that Professor Kathryn McGrath has been appointed as Director of the institute, to succeed the outgoing Director, Professor Richard Blaikie.

Sir Paul Callaghan, New Zealander of the Year and the founding Director of the MacDiarmid Institute has begun an innovative campaign to bring more money into New Zealand from overseas to assist with recovery following the Christchurch Earthquake.

Paul Callaghan, one of our Principal Investigators and our Founding Director, has been named New Zealander of the Year for 2011.

A new Emerging Scientists Group was formed at the Student and Post Doc Symposium. You can visit the MESA website here. The committee is chaired by Natalie Plank, natalie.plank@vuw.ac.nz.

Elf Eldrige represented the MacDiarmid Institute at the Awhina Cybrospace Porirua Community Outreach on 27 August at Te Rauparaha Arena.

Gayle Gentile pictured here with Alan's Nobel Medal at the opening of the Alan MacDiarmid Building. The picture appeared in the Dominion Post 22 July.

We are running a competition to find the best NZ images from nanotechnology research.