Prof. H. Sleiman, winner of the Canadian Society for Chemistry's 2009 Strem Chemicals Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry

Hanadi Sleiman, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, has won the Canadian Society for Chemistry's Strem Chemicals Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry. The Award is presented to a chemist working in Canada who has made an outstanding contribution to inorganic chemistry that demonstrates exceptional promise.

Professor Sleiman, a William Dawson scholar who was a 2002 winner of  the Principal's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2005 winner of the Faculty of Science's prestigious Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching, is renowned for her research that lies at the interface between synthetic chemistry, biological chemistry and materials science. Her projects include developing DNA nanostructures that may one day be used to uncover genetic diseases and assist in the building of DNA microchips.

The Strem Chemicals Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry includes an award lecture to be given in a Inorganic Division Symposium at the annual Canadian Society for Chemistry conference, and a lecture tour to one or more Canadian universities not in major population centres, and whose students normally do not travel to Canadian Society for Chemistry meetings.