2026
July 1 – Congratulations to Eric F. on his new position at the University of Toronto! I guess our lab will need a new DJ…
May 24 – 28 – Eric F., Cassie and Will present their research at CSC in Toronto. Excellent work!
May 1 – Welcome to our newest member Mujgan Hussain-Zada, who apparently has never heard of the Beatles. Don’t worry, you’ll learn.
March 21 – Will and Kenny present their research at the 54th Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC). Both winning awards!
Will – Eurofins award for best oral presentation
Kenny – LGC award for best oral presentation
January 30 – Eric K. gives a seminar at Wilfred Laurier University. Thanks to Ken Maly for the invite!
2025
November 11 – After a rather ridiculous review that didn’t add (or even change) anything to the manuscript, Cassie, Eric, Meilin and former undergraduate students Sterling and Alex’s work was accepted for publication in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. Congratulations guys! Thanks to Jesse, Charlie and Casey at York for their help with X-ray structures.
The last time we submit to this journal? Almost certainly.
September 1 – Welcome to new undergraduate students Will and Kenny who are both doing CHEM 4020D projects
June 23 – Eric Fortin and former undergraduate student Armaan Grewal had their work on Ni-PnBu3 catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura reactions of aryl tosylates, mesylates, and chlorides accepted for publication in Tetrahedron Letters. Congratulations guys!
June 15 – Eric F. presents his research at CSC in Ottawa
May 1 – Welcome to the newest members of the Keske Research Group! Will Perks will be completing a TSWEP summer position, and Cassandra DeFrancesco will begin her Ph.D.!
April 30th – We say goodbye to our former CHEM 4020 students Alexander Glover who is joining Dr. Blacquiere’s group at Western, and and Maya Dell’Erba who goes to the Leitch Lab at UVic! Best of luck to both of you during your graduate Work!
March 29 – Undergrads Alex and Maya present their research at SOUSCC in Guelph! Excellent work!
March 27 – Eric gives a seminar at The University of Windsor. An excellent time was had by all. Thanks to Jim Green for the invite!
2024
December – Meilin and Kasandra’s manuscript was just published in Organometallics. Congratulations! Thank you to Jesse and Charlie at York U. for their help with X-ray structures!
October 2 – Meilin Lim successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis with Olena Zenkina as an external examiner from OUIT.
September 1 – Welcome to our newest members to the lab Alex Glover and Maya Dell’Erba who are both doing CHEM 4020D projects this year!
Welcome back to Eric Fortin who is formally starting his M.Sc. degree. You got a lotta columns to run!
August – Trent University has a new NMR spectrometer! Thanks to the good people at Bruker with all of their help on this!
April 30 – We say goodbye to Sterling who is off to The University of Ottawa for graduate work. Good luck with your work in the Beauchemin group!
April 24 – We now have a Solvent Purification System (SPS) which just arrived from Vigor. And the people rejoiced.
April – Eric Fortin and Sterling Renzoni both present their research at SOUSCC in London with BOTH winning prizes!
Sterling Renzoni esq. – First place Organic Division
Eric Fortin – Third place Materials Division. Congratulations guys!
January – Annnnd we now have a glovebox which just arrived from Vigor. And the people rejoiced.
2023
October – Congratulations to Kasandra Brick, who just defended her thesis as the Keske group’s first MSc graduate!
September – Welcome to our newest CHEM 4020D students Eric Fortin and Sterling Renzoni.
August – Aaaand the Keske group has a new automated chromatography system from Buchi. Goodbye to manual columns! And the people rejoiced!
June – Eric K, Sterling, Kasandra and Meilin all attend CSC in Vancouver.
May 1 – Welcome to Sterling Renzoni who is completing an NSERC USRA in the Keske lab this summer! Welcome back to Eric Fortin who will be doing a TSWEP project over the summer
April – We say goodbye to our two CHEM 4020 students Armaan Grewal who is going to University of Toronto (Lautens) and Eric Lind who is going to Queen’s University (Evans) for their graduate work.
2022
March – Armaan and Eric present their research at SOUSCC right here at Trent. Great work guys!
September – Welcome to our newest CHEM 4020D thesis students Armaan Grewal and Eric Lind. Another Eric in the group? Is this seriously the third one?
September – Welcome to Meilin Lim who re-joins the Keske group as a MSc student!
May – We welcome our newest students Eric Fortin (TSWEP) and Armaan Grewal (NSERC USRA)
April – We say goodbye to Hannah Girard who is moving to McGill university (Auclair), and Nathalie Mapue who is going to UOIT (Zenkina) for their graduate work.
March – Meilin Lim presents her research at SOUSCC at the University of Toronto and wins second place! Excellent Work!