Sponsored by the friends and colleagues of Margaret–Ann Armour including the Chemical Education Fund, CSC Inorganic Division, CIC Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division, University of Alberta, Office of Science & Society at McGill University, University of Ottawa, University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, Brock University, and Wilfrid Laurier University. Donations to the Margaret-Ann Armour Award endowment may be made through the Chemical Education Fund.
This award is presented in memory of Dr. Margaret-Ann Armour as a mark of recognition to an early career educator who has made an outstanding contribution in Canada to undergraduate education primarily at the post-secondary level in the chemical sciences, chemical engineering, or chemical technology.
The 2026 awards are now open for submission.
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The 2025 winner of the Margaret-Ann Armour Award for Early Career Chemistry Education is:
Angela Crane, MCIC
Dalhousie University
Angela Crane received her BSc in Chemistry and Applied Mathematics (Honours) from Memorial University followed by a PhD in Materials Chemistry from the University of British Columbia. Her interest in chemical education began long before her time at university, as she was always working towards her goal of becoming an educator. Crane’s first position as a primary instructor began in September 2016 when she joined Dalhousie University as the First Year Program Coordinator of the “Concepts in Chemistry” courses, which sees enrollment of ~1500 students per year in a multi-section, team-taught structure. Within 7 years, Crane was promoted to the rank of University Teaching Fellow – the highest rank for a teaching focused faculty member at Dalhousie – and was awarded 4 separate Dalhousie University-wide Legacy Teaching awards, the Dalhousie Faculty of Science Award for Teaching Excellence and a STLHE D2L Innovation Award for her teaching innovations. Crane believes all students belong in chemistry, and thus her teaching practices are heavily influenced by evidence-based accessible teaching strategies, including Universal Design for Learning, flipped delivery of a large enrollment classrooms, game-based learning and gamification of a course, and what she likes to call a “choose your own adventure” approach to hybrid/flexible learning.