CCUCC Chemistry Doctoral Award

Sponsored by the Canadian Council of University Chemistry Chairs (CCUCC)

The CCUCC Chemistry Doctoral Award is presented to recognize outstanding achievement and potential in research by a graduate student whose PhD thesis in chemistry was formally accepted by a Canadian university in the 12–month period preceding the nomination deadline.

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The 2022 winner of the CCUCC Chemistry Doctoral Award is:

L. Reginald Mills
Princeton University

L. Reginald Mills was born in Toronto, Canada in 1993. He completed his B.Sc. at the University of Toronto in 2015, having worked with Prof. Aaron Wheeler (Chemistry), Prof. Amber Ross (Philosophy), and Prof. Ulrich Tepass (Cell and Systems Biology). From 2015–2020, he was a graduate student in chemistry at the University of Toronto in the lab of Prof. Sophie Rousseaux, where he developed new C–O and C–C functionalization reactions relevant to cyclopropanol chemistry, nitrile chemistry, and nickel catalysis. He earned his Ph.D. in 2020. He is currently a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University in the lab of Prof. Paul Chirik, where he studies cobalt-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions.

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Past Winners