Research Group of Cory Pye

Last updated: Nov 16, 2012

Current Employees

Who? Project Details Funny Quotes Where are they now?

Fernanda Rodrigues

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
PT 10/12-pres NSERC+SEEP Ni(III)

Shifat Sharmin

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
PT 10/12-pres NSERC + SEEP Cu(III)

Liwei Cheng

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
M. Sc. 09/10-pres NSERC SPG Ni(II) complexes

Jane Ferguson

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
FT 05/09-08/11 NSERC-CRD AECL/NRCan Co(II) and Ni(II) complexes
09/11-04/12 Honours STO-NG

Former Members

Rajesh Satyamurti

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
M. Sc. FT 09/11-12/11 NSERC SPG NRCan/AECL Fe(II) complexes

Did not finish degree.

Daniel Whynot

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
M. Sc. FT 09/09-01/12 NSERC CRD NRCan/AECL Co(II) complexes
FT/PT 02/12-08/12 NSERC CRD NRCan/AECL various Gen IV

Cabot Corporation, Tanco Mine, Manitoba

Yaoting Zhang

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
M. Sc. FT 09/09-01/12 ACEnet Vanadium(V) aqua species
FT/PT 02/12-08/12 NSERC Various Collaboration

(Just picture with one pant leg rolled up)
Queens (Mosey)

Barbara Goodall

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
FT 05/09-08/11 NSERC HVO42-
09/11-04/12 Honours XO4 (d0) X=Cr,Mn,Fe

Oooooooh yeah!
U. Guelph (Lipkowski)

Peyman Akbari

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
FT 05/08-08/08 NSERC HSeO4-

Tinofadzwa "Tino" Chiome

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
FT 05/08-08/08 NSERC HAsO42-

Victoria Walker

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
PT 10/07-04/08 FGSR + SEEP 4th period oxoanions
FT 05/08-04/09 FGSR + NSERC HVO42- & V2O7 4-

CP: Those homemade cookies are delicious.

CP: (After listening to Morbid Angel album) I have this sudden urge to slaughter a goat!
VW: ...Well, then!...
M.Sc. Dalhousie U. (Boyd)

Katie Doucet

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
M. Sc. 09/05-08/07 FGSR + NSERC model triazene drugs

KGD: Thanks Dr. Pye, but I'm more of a rum girl!
CP: Yeah, scotch is an ACQUIRED taste.
medicine, U. Queensland (Brisbane)

Colin Mercer

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
Honors 09/05-04/06 STO-NG for Cs,Ba,Tl-Rn
FT 05/05-08/05 SEEP + NSERC-USRA benchmark oxoanion calcs
PT 10/04-03/05 SEEP benchmark oxoanion calcs

CJM: Dr. Pye, my name's Colin. You called me Tom.
medicine, Memorial University

Chenguang Fan

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
PT 01/06-03/06
FT 05/06-08/06
SEEP HCO3-

VL: To celebrate, I am making dumplings!
Graduate Student, University of Alberta (Vederas)

Yuqing Tian

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
PT 10/05 SEEP HCO3-

CP: The master of moonlighting!
Technician, ECI Medical Technologies

Vanessa Little

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
PT 10/05-03/06 SEEP CO32-

VL: Pink is eeeeeevil!!!
Graduate Student, Queen's University (Jessop)

Courtney Schaller

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
FT 05/05-08/05 SEEP + NSERC-USRA 2nd sphere cation
PT 10/04-03/05 SEEP 2nd sphere cation

CP: Courtney, your project is to prove that I'm an idiot!
VP Academic, SMU Students Association

Darren Mercer

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
FT 04/02-08/02 NSED-COOP WT1; NSERC nitrate + water
FT 09/02-12/02 NSED-COOP WT2; NSERC (PT) hydroxocopper(I)
FT 01/03-04/03 NSED-COOP WT3; NSERC (PT) amminecopper(I)
FT 05/03-08/03 WT4 Jean Burnell Diels-Alder
PT 10/03-03/04 FW-SEEP; H Jenkins inorganic synthesis
FT 05/04-08/04 H Jenkins inorganic synthesis

DM: No. I'm not getting my picture taken!
CP: You left the posters where?
DM: Twenty-five honey garlic. And a pitcher of Keith's.
DM: Hmmmmm....What the hell is wrong with this KBr plunger?
graduate student, U. Windsor (with S. Loeb)

Christopher Corbeil

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
FT 09/00-12/00 NSED-COOP WT1; DSDF; AVPDF chloroscandium(III)
FT 01/01-04/01 NSED-COOP WT2; NSERC/OPG (PT) chlorocopper(I)
FT 05/01-08/01 NSED-SLEP WT3; NSERC chlorozinc(II)
PT 09/01-04/02 FW-SEEP; NSERC chlorocopper(II)
FT 05/02-08/02 John Young ion-selective electrodes
PT 09/02-04/03 FW-SEEP; NSERC nitrogen heterocycles
FT 05/02-08/03 WT4; Keith Vaughan synthesis
PT 09/03-04/04 Honours
FT 05/04-07/04 FGSR;DSDF

CC: It's all crap!
CC: Hmmmmm....beer.
The score: Chris: 2 Computer: 0
CP: (picture casting a rod and reeling it back in)

Ph. D. Student, McGill U (with N. Moitessier)
post-doctoral fellow, NRC (with E. Purisima)

Kathryn Kelley

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
PT 09/02-04/03 S-SEEP; NSERC sulfatoscandium(III)
FT 05/03-08/03 WT1; John Young ion selective electrodes
FT 09/03-12/03 WT2; NSED-COOP sulfatoscandium(III)
FT 01/04-04/04 WT3; NSED-COOP sulfatoscandium(III)

KK: Ethanol? Halogenated Waste? What!
KK: Desymmetrize, desymmetrize, and desymmetrize!

Au pair, Dallas, Texas
Will probably never eat at MacDonald's again
B. Ed., U. Alberta, Edmonton

Dijana Lekic

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
PT 05/03 Volunteer domoic acid
FT 06/03-08/03 HRDC
FT 09/03-03/04 DFO

DL: I have a high metabolism!
DL: (knock, knock) Dr. Pye, I have just a little
question about the -how do you say- expectation
value of the kinetic energy operator for a hydrogen
3s orbital...(1 hour later)...Thank you, Dr. Pye.

Graduate Student, U South Florida (R. Larsen)
currently enjoying motherhood in Slovenia

Thomas Enright

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
FT 05/01-08/01 S-SEEP; NSERC Metal-water via ECPs
PT 09/01-04/02 FW-SEEP SN2 reactions of triazenes
FT 05/02-08/02 S-FGSR; KV; NSERC
PT 09/02-03/03 FW-SEEP
FT 05/03-08/03 NSERC USRA; FGSR
PT 10/03-03/04 FW-SEEP

CP: Nice hat! Fill' er up, regular!
Medicine, Queens U. (Kingston)

Sandra Black

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
PT 01/02-04/02 NSERC bromozinc(II)
FT 05/02-08/02 SEEP; NSERC WT1
FT 09/02-04/03 WT2-3 Department Technician
FT 05/03-08/03 WT4 SEEP; NSED COOP

CP: You're using HOW many gigabytes?
SB: Giggle, giggle.
Engineering, Dalhousie U.

Madelaine Tomney

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
PT 09/01-04/02 SEEP; NSERC metal + water ONIOM
FT 05/02-08/02 HRDC; NSERC metal + water ECP

MT: Let's go get a coffee!
MT: Let's go to the beach!
PRA International (monitoring drug trials)

Julie Glister

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
FT 05/00-08/00 SEEP; NSERC (KV) triazenes
FT 04/02-08/02 DFO-YI domoic acid

JG: This is the last conference I'm going to.
CC: I wouldn't sit there, Liz.
Atlantic Purification Systems

Margaretha Michels

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
FT 05/00-08/00 SRG; DSDF phosphoric acid
PT 09/00-04/01 SEEP hydrogen and dihydrogen phosphate
FT 05/01-08/01 SRG; NSERC
FT 04/02-03/03 NRCan-YI; DSDF gas hydrates

CP: Can you train XXX?
MM: Chris, check your spelling!
?

Mahesh Gunasekara

When? MMYY $$$$$ What?
FT 05/01-08/01 NSED COOP WT1; NSERC aquabismuth(III)
FT 09/01-12/01 NSED COOP WT2; DSDF heavy metals
FT 01/02-04/02 NSED COOP WT3; NSERC

MG: Whoooo-ooooh.....livin' on a prayer.....
Victory Arms Pub, Halifax


Funding abbreviations:
SEEP - Student Employment Experience Program, SMU.
SRG - Senate Research Grant, SMU.
DSDF - Dean of Science Development Fund, SMU.
AVPDF - Academic Vice President Development Fund, SMU.
NSERC (XX) - NSERC Operating Grant of XX
NSED COOP - Nova Scotia Economic Development Cooperative Employment Program
OPG - Ontario Power Generation
DFO-YI - Department of Fisheries and Oceans - Youth Internship
NRCan-YI - Department of Natural Resources - Youth Internship