The Inorganic Division presents two awards at each National Meeting of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, including National Conventions in which the Division of Inorganic Chemistry is a participant. These are the Burrows Award and the Stranks Awards. In addition, the Alan Sargeson Lectureship is awarded between National Meetings.

BURROWS AWARD

The 22nd Inorganic Award of RACI, the Burrows Award, will be presented at the RACI Inorganic Chemistry Divisional IC'08 meeting to be held at Christchurch (NZ) in December 2008.

The Award commemorates George Joseph Burrows (1888-1950). Burrows was appointed to the staff of the University of Sydney in 1919 and made important contributions to coordination chemistry during the following twenty-one years, especially in the field of metal-tertiary arsine complexes. Collaborators of Burrows included E.E. Turner, Sir Ian Wark and Sir Ronald Nyholm. Burrows was the Royal Society of New South Wales' Liversidge Lecturer in 1940.

The award is based on consideration of the candidate's scientific work published in the past 10 years, together with other evidence of his or her standing in the international community. A major portion of the relevant scientific work must have been carried out in Australia and/or New Zealand.

Candidates, who must be financial members of the Institute or of the NZIC at the time of nomination, may apply personally or be nominated by other members of the RACI. Proposals should contain the following information: a brief curriculum vitae; a list of publications for the past 10 years (1998 to the time of the nomination) for which there has been a significant contribution to the field of inorganic chemistry; reprints of no more than 10 of the most significant of these publications; and any supporting information that could be helpful to the Selection Committee. Nominees should also arrange for two independent testimonials to be forwarded to the Divisional Secretary.

The Award will consist of a citation and a metal sculpture, free registration at the IC meeting at which they will receive the award, a return economy airfare from the awardee's home city and $750 towards accommodation expenses (if the awardee is not a resident of the city in which the meeting is held).

Previous winners

• A. M. Sargeson (1975)
• D. R. Stranks (1977)
• R. L. Martin (1978)
• H. C. Freeman (1980)
• B. O. West (1981)
• C. J. Hawkins (1982)
• D. L. Kepert (1984)
• B. N. Figgis (1986)
• M. A. Bennett (1987)
• M. I. Bruce (1989)
• L. F. Lindoy (1991)
• W. R. Roper (1992)
• C. L. Raston (1994)
• I. G. Dance (1996)
• R. Robson (1998)
• D. A. Buckingham (1999)
• A. M. Bond (2000)
• P. A. Lay (2001)
• K. S. Murray (2003)
• A. White (2005)
• G. B. Deacon (2007)

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DON STRANKS AWARDS

Don Stranks was a leading member of the Australian and international inorganic chemistry community. Prior to his appointment as Vice Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, Don Stranks had been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Adelaide and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at The University of Melbourne. The Don Stranks Awards commemorate his substantial contribution to inorganic chemistry in Australia, and particularly his nurture and encouragement of students. The Don Stranks Awards are open to student member of The RACI, and recognize outstanding performance in research within a current PhD candidature. The Awards are made at National Conferences of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry.

Student members of The RACI (or an affiliated society) attending a national Conference of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry should indicate that they wish their work to be considered for the Awards when submitting Abstracts for posters for the conference. There is a limit of one application per student delegate.

From the applications, a short list of up to six students will be selected, and in addition to their poster presentation, each of these students will be invited to make an oral presentation of their work in a special session in the Conference program.

There will be two Don Stranks Awards which each carry a cash prize of $300. All students selected to give oral presentations of their work in the Don Stranks Awards session will have their Registration costs reimbursed.

Previous winners

• 2000
  Vivienne Monk (University of Sydney)
  Matthew Byrnes (Australian National University)

• 2003
  Tom Waters (University of Melbourne)
  Deanna D'Alessandro (James Cook University)

• 2005
  Karena Chapman (University of Sydney)
  Rebecca Warr (Australian National University)

• 2007
  Craig Gourlay (University of Melbourne)
  Lisa McClintock (University of Otago)

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INORGANIC LECTURESHIP AWARD
(The Alan Sargeson Lectureship)

The RACI Inorganic Chemistry Division offers a competitive and prestigious Award open to early career researchers, acknowledging a significant and innovative individual contribution to Inorganic Chemistry. The inaugural awardee in 2006 was Prof. Cameron Kepert (Uni. of Sydney). The award will once again be offered in 2008 and the conditions are given below.

1. The Award is open to any researcher who is an Australian or New Zealand national, or has Permanent Resident status, who is within ten years of the award of their PhD on the date of closure of the applications. The Award will be based on research undertaken predominantly in Australia or New Zealand.

2. Nominees must be financial members of The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Inc. or the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry at the time of nomination.

3. One Award will be made every 18 months - 2 years. Applications will be called for by advertisement in "Chemistry in Australia" and "Chemistry in New Zealand", as well as on the Websites of the two Institutions

4. The Award will consist of travel funding to enable the recipient to undertake a lecture tour of Australian and New Zealand University Chemistry Departments and/or other research institutions. There is to be no geographical restriction on the tour, and the recipient will be expected to travel to all Departments/institutions that choose to host the Lecture. Host institutions would be expected to meet accommodation and subsistence costs for the visit.

5. The Award will be decided by a sub-committee appointed by the Divisional Committee and chaired by the Divisional Chairman, comprising representatives appointed from within the Divisional Committee as well as appropriate additional persons from outside that Committee to give it wide representation. It is the responsibility of the Divisional Committee to ensure that there is no compromise (in terms of collaborative research involvement or institutional bias) of members of the Selection Committee with any of the applicants. Applications would be by nomination, and nominees would be required to supply a detailed CV (with publications or other evidence of research output, and providing three referees). Nominees should also supply the title and an Abstract of the talk that would be given if the application was successful.

6. The Award is to be named "The Alan Sargeson Lectureship".

Nominations for the award close on Friday October 24, 2008.
We strongly encourage all those who are eligible to apply and also to support young colleagues you think may be suitable candidates.

Winners

• 2006
  Professor Cameron Kepert (University of Sydney)

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