Awards Ceremony for Second-Year Chemistry Students

Our chemistry students in the spotlight!

The awards ceremony took place on Thursday, December 9, 2021.

The second-year chemistry program is holding its third awards ceremony to honor students who excelled during the past academic year. This annual event also provides an opportunity for second- and third-year students (in chemistry and physical chemistry) to attend one or more public lectures.

Following a 2017 lecture on new approaches to cancer chemotherapy (by Professor S. Papot, University of Poitiers), a 2018 lecture on the chemistry of love (by Professor M. Hibert, University of Strasbourg), and a hiatus caused by public health restrictions, two new lectures were held this year. These lectures allowed students to explore two highly original and little-known topics in chemistry: the chemistry and origins of life (Dr. R. Pascal, University of Aix-Marseille, in a lecturetitled “ What Can Guide Chemistry Toward Spontaneous Organization?”), and the field of miniaturized synthetic engines at the molecular scale, with the second international nanovehicle race scheduled for next spring (Professor G. Rapenne, University of Toulouse and Nara, lecturetitled “Prototypes of Molecular Machines: Engines, Gears, and Vehicles”).

As the coordinator of the L2 Chemistry program, I would like to thank everyone at the University of Montpellier who helped organize this event, the speakers, the faculty members from the Chemistry Department who were able to take time out of their schedules to congratulate the students on their respective modules, and the students themselves—with a special mention for all the sponsors of this event, including the publishers, who support us in this moment of scientific exchange that brings together research and teaching.

Contact:frederic.coutrot@umontpellier.fr, head of the L2 Chemistry program