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Paul Hayes

Chair & Professor
Office: SA8448
Phone: (403) 329-2313
p.hayes@uleth.ca

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Susan Findlay

Associate Chair & Instructor III
Office: SA8458
(403) 317-5044
susan.lait@uleth.ca

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Heather Weiler

Executive and Administrative Support
Office: SA8464
(403) 329-2301
heather.weiler@uleth.ca

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Borries Demeler

Professor
Office: SA9124
(403) 329-2047
demeler@uleth.ca

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Peter Dibble

Associate Professor
Office: SA8460
(403) 329-2305
dibble@uleth.ca

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John Eng

Instructor III
Office: SA8432
(403) 329-2329
engj@uleth.ca

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Kris Fischer

Instructor II
Office: SA8428
(403) 329-2343
fiscke@uleth.ca

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Michael Gerken

Professor
Office: SA8436
(403) 329-2173
michael.gerken@uleth.ca

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Dylan Girodat

Assistant Professor
Office: SA9122
(403) 332-4368
dylan.girodat@uleth.ca

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Jean-Denys Hamel

Assistant Professor
Office: SA8426
(403) 329-2686
jd.hamel@uleth.ca

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Paul Hazendonk

Associate Professor
Office: SA8440
(403) 329-2657
paul.hazendonk@uleth.ca

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Laura Keffer-Wilkes

Instructor II
Office: SA9112
(403) 332-4544
kefferwilkesl@uleth.ca

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Jackson Knott

Technical Specialist
Office: SA9444
(403) 332-4049
jackson.knott@uleth.ca

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Wayne Lippa

Instructor III
Office: SA8454
(403) 329-2043
lippwk@uleth.ca

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Tony Montina

Instructor II
Office: SA6214
(403) 394-3927
tony.montina@uleth.ca

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Trushar Patel

Associate Dean of Arts & Science

Professor
Office: SA9120
(403) 332-4443
trushar.patel@uleth.ca
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Greg Patenaude

Instructor III
Office: SA8456
(403) 329-2310
greg.patenaude@uleth.ca

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Vineet Rathod

Assistant Professor
Office: SA9118
(403) 332-5274
vineet.rathod@uleth.ca

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Catharine Roussel

Research Associate
Office: SA9410
(403) 329-2306
rouscj@uleth.ca

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Marc Roussel

Marc Roussel

Associate Dean Graduate Studies

Professor
Office: SA9414
(403) 329-2326
roussel@uleth.ca
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Quintin Steynen

Instructor II
Office: SA9232
(403) 329-2210
steyqj@uleth.ca
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Vincent Weiler

MR Facility Technician IV
Office: SA6210
Phone: (403) 332-4526
vince.weiler@uleth.ca

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Stacey Wetmore

Professor
Office: SA9416
(403) 329-2323
stacey.wetmore@uleth.ca

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Jessica Willi

Assistant Professor
Office: SA9114
(403) 329-2349
jessica.willi@uleth.ca

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Ying Zheng

Instructor III
Office: SA8430
(403) 317-2813
ying.zheng@uleth.ca

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Retired Faculty

Rene

René Boeré

Professor Emeritus
Office: SA8444
(403) 329-2045
boere@uleth.ca

René was hired in 1988. His degrees are PhD Univ. of Western Ontario, 1984 and BSc Dalhousie Univ., 1979.  René became a Full Professor in 2000 and served as Dept Chair from 2003 – 2013. He is an Inorganic Chemist with a special interest in Materials Science applications of novel compounds. His background is in synthetic inorganic chemistry, with a strong understanding of structure-determination techniques including vibrational, ESR and multi-nuclear NMR spectroscopy, single-crystal X-ray diffraction and solution electrochemistry. 

René  has held a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC Canada) operating grant continuously for the past thirty-three years. He has over thirty-five years’ experience in lecturing undergraduates at all levels, including general chemistry, inorganic chemistry from second year to fourth year, as well as several courses in other disciplines (organic, physical, analytical and solid-state chemistry.) 

René was the main catalyst for a new Science building and his efforts were rewarded when the new Science building was built. The new building’s teaching and research labs are a huge improvement over the old labs, which had original the fume hoods in them.

In 2024 Dr. Boeré earned Speaker Research Award

Though René is retired from instructing he is still conducting research at the University of Lethbridge.

 

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Steve Mosimann

Steven Mosimann

Steve was an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Lethbridge from 2000-2024.He earned his degrees in Biochemistry, a PhD, 1995 and BSc, 1988 at the Univ. of Alberta while specializing in macromolecular single-crystal X-ray diffraction in the laboratory of Michael James. Following his PhD, he completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Univ. of Alberta, 1996 and the Univ. of British Columbia 1997-1999. 

He joined the UofL in 2000 and was awarded an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Position in 2001. Steve has established and maintained a nationally funded Protein Biophysics Lab studying the atomic resolution structure and function of biologically significant enzymes. 
 

Steve has been an active member of the Canadian Synchrotron User Group participating in multiple provincial and national initiatives leading to the establishment of the first synchrotron beamline stations at the Canadian Light Source (2005; 2008) and the development of the Ph.D. program (Sciences) at the UofL.  

 

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