Our CREATE-CFS Management Committee would like to congratulate T. Boushareb, O. Gamboa Marin, O. Guévremont, F. Fournelle and E. Maurice-Elder, who have been selected to receive a $4,000 undergraduate scholarship to undertake an internship on a project related to continuous flow science in the laboratory of a member professor this summer. We wish them every success in this new academic venture.

Our CREATE-CFS Ph.D. student Émilie Morin (Collins Group) won a Best Poster Award for her work entitled "Synthesis of Neomarchantin A via a Ring Closing Metathesis in Continuous Flow" during the 7th Annual European Conference of the Flow Chemistry Society in Cambridge, UK.

Our CREATE-CFS Management Committee would like to congratulate Clément Audubert, Éric Godin, Émilie Morin, Shawn Parisien-Collette, Pauline Rullière and Jeffrey Santandrea who are the recipients of travel scholarships ($1,500 each) that will enable them to present their research at the Flow Chemistry congress in Miami and in Cambridge.

Our CREATE-CFS postdoctoral fellow Pauline Rullière (Charette Group) has been nominated "Étudiante-chercheure étoile" of December by FRQNT for her innovative work on the difluorocarbene addition to alkenes and alkynes in continuous flow, that was published in Organic Letters, 2016, 18, 1988.

Our CREATE-CFS Ph.D. student Jeffrey Santandrea (Collins Group) received a Marguerite Jacques Lemay scholarship of $3,000 for his excellent academic record. This amount is in addition to a sum of $11,000 which is allocated to his research director for the payment of his annual stipend. Marguerite Jacques Lemay and her husband highly valued education and the advancement of knowledge. A scholarship fund in chemistry was created at Université de Montréal through a universal legacy.

Our CREATE-CFS collaborator Stephen Newman was awarded the 2016 Polanyi Prize in Chemistry. He was recognized for his work in developing new chemical reactions and processes for application in the pharmaceutical, fine, and bulk chemical industries.

Research work from our CREATE-CFS M.Sc. student David Gareau (Vallée-Bélisle Group), which was published in the journal Nano Letters (2016, 20, 3976), has made headlines in several local and international newspapers: Forum UdeM, Journal Métro, Daily Mail, New York Post and Yahoo. His research focuses on a programmable DNA thermometer that is 20,000x smaller than a human hair.

Our CREATE-CFS Management Committee would like to congratulate Oscar Javier Gamboa Marin, Eric Isbrandt and Ibrahim Jaber, who have been selected to receive a $4,000 undergraduate scholarship to undertake an internship on a project related to continuous flow science in the laboratory of a member professor this summer. We wish them every success in this new academic venture.

Our CREATE-CFS Management Committee would like to congratulate Thierry Havard, Éric Mielke, Paresa Modarres, Pauline Rullière and Jeffrey Santandrea who are the recipients of travel scholarships (varied amounts) that will enable them to present their research at various major symposia this year: Pacifichem, the Zing Continuous Flow Chemistry Conference, the Symposium on Microscale Separations and Bioanalysis, and the International Conference of the Flow Society.

Our two CREATE-CFS Ph.D. students Émilie Morin and Éric Godin (Collins Group) received a Stephen Hanessian award of $1,500 for their excellent academic record in the field of organic chemistry. The funds were created in 1996 by Stephen Hanessian, a Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry. They were honoured during an official ceremony entitled "Celebrate the arts and sciences."

Our CREATE-CFS Ph.D. student Jeffrey Santandrea (Collins Group) rceived a Charron-Lam scholarship of $5,000 for his excellent academic record. The funds were created in 2004 by legacy of Vin Te Lam, a former alumni of the Department of Chemistry and Raymonde Charron, a former alumni of the Department of French Literatures.

Our CREATE-CFS Ph.D. student Hugo-Pierre Poirier-Richard (Masson Group) received a Marguerite Jacques Lemay scholarship of $3,000 for his outstanding academic record. The funds were created by legacy of Marguerite Jacques-Lemay, who valued education and the advancement of knowledge in chemistry.

Our CREATE-CFS Ph.D. student Émilie Morin (Collins Group) received a Roger Barré award of $1,000 for the best GPA in all mandatory organic chemistry courses. the Funds were created by legacy of Roger Barré, a Chemistry and Pharmacy professor at Université de Montréal from 1928 to 1951.

Our CREATE-CFS Ph.D. student Éric Godin (Collins Group) received the HyperCube Prize, which earned him the HyperChem software and an honorary certificate for his excellent undergraduate academic record and his interest in molecular modeling. He also received the Analytical Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society for his achievements in this field during his first two years of study. This allowed him to obtain a one-year subscription to the journal Analytical Chemistry.

Our CREATE-CFS Ph.D. student Émilie Morin (Collins Group) won a Best Poster Award for her work entitled "In-Line Extraction and Purification of PEG Co-Solvents During Macrocyclizations Employing a Phase Separation Strategy" during the 26th QOMSBOC in Montreal.

Our CREATE-CFS Ph.D. student Sylvain Taillemaud (Charette Group) is the first recipient of the Hanessian Alumni Scholarship (value of $3,000), which is awarded to a graduate student whose thesis topic is related to the field of chemistry and life sciences. The funds were created at the initiative of two graduates of Professor Stephen Hanessian, Éric Therrien (2005) and Youssef Bennani (1991), who wanted to honor the distinguished career of their former supervisor.

Our CREATE-CFS Management Committee would like to congratulate Alexandra Aubé, Antoine Caron, Éric Lévesque, Sébastien Mongeon, Patrick Plouffe and Henri Piras who are the recipients of travel scholarships (varied amounts) that will enable them to present their research at various major symposia this year: CSC Ottawa, ACS Boston, Flow Chemistry Congress and Pacifichem.

Congratulations to our CREATE-CFS Member James Wuest, who has seen his Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Supramolecular Materials renewed by the Government of Canada. Professor Wuest is an expert in using the chemistry of molecular self-assembly and self-organization to develop programmed and well-defined molecular architectures.

Our CREATE-CFS Co-Director André Charette was awarded an honorary degree from INSA Rouen (France), with whom he has maintained close links for the past years, particularly with Professors Philippe Jubault and Xavier Pannecoucke. The rank of Doctor Honoris Causa is a high honor bestowed to foreign researchers who have made notable contributions to their field of expertise. Coincidentally, his joint work with the Jubault group on fluorocyclopropane derivatives has just been highlighted in Chem. Eng. News.

Our CREATE-CFS Management Committee would like to congratulate Jémika Badouraly, Jean-Antoine Gauthier Cyr, Alexandre Lévesque and Simon Vanier, who have been selected to receive a $4,000 undergraduate scholarship to undertake an internship on a project related to continuous flow science in the laboratory of a member professor this summer. We wish them every success in this new academic venture.

Our CREATE-CFS Member Jean-François Masson has received a travel award sponsored jointly by CNC-IUPAC and the Chemical Institute of Canada to present his research at the IUPAC world congress that was held from August 9-14, 2015 at Bexco, Busan in South Korea. Congratulations to him!

Congratulations to our CRAETE-CFS member William Lubell who received financing from the Distinguished Visitors Program of Haverford College (Pennsylvania). This initiative provides support to bring a diverse portfolio of distinguished statesmen, scientists, artists and other scholars to the Haverford community. Among other things, he gave 2 talks on December 4-5, 2014 as the Philips Visitor Professor of Chemistry.

Our CREATE-CFS Ph.D. Student Anne-Catherine Bédard ( Collins Group) has won three times in a row a "Best Poster" award for three different research topics at three different symposia. What an accomplishment! She presented her award-winning work at the CSACS Student Symposium (Montreal), at the QOMSBOC (Toronto) and at the Commonwealth Science Conference (Bangalore) from September to November 2014.

Our CREATE-CFS Collaborator Andreea Schmitzer was appointed as a Corresponding Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. This nomination has been highlighted at a forthcoming ceremony in Paris, France on June 6, 2015. This distinction is usually reserved to professors at more advanced stage in their career, which makes this early accomplishment even more worthwhile.

The work of our CREATE-CFS Member Stephen Hanessian on the use of fluorinated neomycin analogs (Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 4621 and ACS Chem. Biol. 2014, 9, 2067) have been highlighted in the journal Chem. Eng. News.

Our CREATE-CFS Ph.D. student Shawn Parisien-Collette (Collins Group) has won an award for Best Poster for his work entitled "A Visible-Light-Mediated Synthesis of Carbazoles" during the CSACS 10th Student Symposium in Montreal.

A team of researchers from Université de Montréal (our CREATE-CFS Member Jean-François Masson and our CREATE-CFS Collaborator Joelle Pelletier) have developed a miniature device that can measure in less than a minute a patient's blood for methotrexate, a commonly used cancer drug. Just as accurate and 10x less expensive than equipment currently used in hospitals, this nanoscale optical device can rapidly gauge the dose a patient needs, while minimizing the drug's adverse effects.

Our CREATE-CFS Member Alexis Vallée-Bélisle is the new holder of Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Bionanotechnology. His research focuses on the development of new technologies inspired by Nature to improve the detection of tumors and the delivery of anti-cancer treatments. He also develops inexpensive and easy-to-use diagnostic tests that enable the rapid detection of multiple diseases including sexually transmitted infections.

Congratulations to our CREATE-CFS member William Lubell who has been selected at Invited Professor for the 2nd semester of 2014 at Université de Cergy-Pontoise where he regularly gives talks on the topic of proteins and molecules of life.

Our CREATE-CFS Ph.D. student Daniel Beaudoin (Wuest Group) has received the "Prix étudiant-chercheur étoile" from FRQNT for his innovative work on constructing monocrystalline covalent organic networks by polymerization, that was published in the journal Nature Chemistry.

Our CREATE-CFS Member Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, in collaboration with bioengineers from Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, has used DNA to develop a nanosensor that detects and reacts to chemical changes caused by cancer cells and that may one day be used to deliver drugs to tumor cells. DNA represents an ideal material to build nanomachines at the nanometer scale and should prove of utility for several applications in the fields of in-vivo imaging, clinical diagnostics and drug-delivery.

Our CREATE-CFS International Collaborator Steven Ley is the 2014 recipient of the IUPAC-ThalesNano Prize in Flow Chemistry. He has earned this accolade (prize of $7,500 US and travel allowance to attend ceremony) for his outstanding contribution and creative work in the multi-step synthesis in continuous flow chemistry reactor systems.

We are proud to officially announce that, starting on April 1, 2014, NSERC has awarded us the funds to create a training program in continuous flow science for chemistry and engineering students from Université de Montréal, École Polytechnique, McGill University and the University of Ottawa. This unique program is designed to combine multidisciplinary knowledge, technical expertise and professional skills that will make our graduates leaders in the Canadian manufacturing sector. Stay tuned!