Biological Sciences Division
Staff Awards & Honors

June 2006

Ellis Appointed to Canadian NMR Advisory Board

Paul Ellis

Laboratory Fellow Paul Ellis has been invited to a 3-year appointment as a member of the International Advisory Board for the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids, a joint facility of the National Research Council Canada and the University of Ottawa. The board meets yearly to review the facility operations and provide comments, suggestions, and recommendations on operations. Dr. Ellis chairs the board; other members are Jean-Paul Amoureux (National Superior School of Chemistry in Lille, France) and Mark Smith (University of Warwick, UK).

Dr. Ellis attended a board meeting June 2 in Ottawa that was held in conjunction with dedication of the NMR Facility's 900-MHz spectrometer, which is the only one in Canada dedicated to the study of solids.