CIC Chair’s and CSC President’s Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, Jun. 5
6 – 7:30 PM CT
Pan Am Room
The formal awards presentation will be conducted with award winners and their sponsors. Conference delegates are welcome to join this special celebration.
CIC Chair’s and CSC President’s Awards Reception
Wednesday, Jun. 5
7:30 – 9 PM CT
Delta Hotel, Delta C
This is an opportunity for the award winners, sponsors, and guests to mingle and celebrate with each other in a relaxed reception setting. Food will be provided during the reception. Tickets can be purchased for $130+ tax and 3% surcharge during registration or by contacting mlockman@cheminst.ca

Gregory Jerkiewicz, FCIC
Queen's University

Daniela Loock, FCIC
University of Victoria

Stephanie MacQuarrie, FCIC
Cape Breton University

Lisa Rosenberg, FCIC
University of Victoria

Monday, Jun. 3, 2:40 – 3:20 PM CT – Meeting Room 15
(CE) Chemistry Education General Session

Keshwaree Vima Babooram
University of Alberta
Plenary Session:
Wednesday, Jun. 5, 11:30 – 12:30 PM CT – Hall D
Tuning Reactivity with the Periodic Table: Pentadentate Ligand Designs for Small Molecule Activation

Warren Piers, FCIC
University of Calgary
Monday, Jun. 3, 2 – 2:40 PM CT – Room 24E East
(IN) Advances in Main Group Chemistry

Douglas Stephan, FCIC
University of Toronto
Wednesday, Jun. 5, 4:40 – 5:20 PM CT – Meeting Room 2
(EN) Organic Contaminants in the Environment

Hui Peng, MCIC
University of Toronto
Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2 – 2:40 PM CT- Meeting Room 7
(MS) Polymers for Sustainability

Elizabeth Gillies , MCIC
The University of Western Ontario
Tuesday, Jun. 4, 2 – 2:40 PM CT – Meeting Room 7
(MS) Polymers for Sustainability

Uttandaraman Sundararaj, FCIC
University of Calgary
Thursday, Jun. 6, 11:50 – 12:30 PM CT – Meeting Room 17
(EN) Selenium and Other Metals and Metalloids in the Environment

Diane Beauchemin, MCIC
Queen's University
Monday, Jun. 3, 2 – 2:40 PM CT – Meeting Room 15
(CE) Chemistry Education General Session

Shannon Accettone, MCIC
Trent University
Plenary Session:
Thursday, Jun. 6, 9:40 – 10:40 AM CT – Hall D
Building Bridges, Opening Doors: The Symbiosis of Community Service and Research

Steven Holdcroft, FCIC
Simon Fraser University

Thursday, Jun. 6, 10:50 – 11:30 AM CT – Room 2F East
(MT) Emerging Materials Investigators (invitation only)

Dwight Seferos
University of Toronto
Monday, Jun. 3, 2 – 2:40 PM CT – Meeting Room 1
(OR) From Theory to Impact: Triumphs and Breakthroughs in Physical Organic Chemistry

Derek A. Pratt, MCIC
University of Ottawa
Tuesday, Jun. 4, 9:40 – 10:20 AM CT – Meeting Room 3
(BM, OR) Natural Product Biosynthesis, Enzymology, and Protein Engineering

Roger Linington, MCIC
Simon Fraser University
Tuesday, Jun. 4, 4:40 – 5:20 PM CT – Room 2H East
(BM, PTC) Biomolecular Dynamics – Experimental and Computational Advances

Dominic Lauzon
Université de Montréal
Wednesday, Jun. 5, 9:40 – 10:20 AM CT – Meeting Room 4
(AN, PTC, SS) Diverse Applications of Electrochemistry

Jason Hsu
Wilfrid Laurier University
Monday, Jun. 3, 9:40 – 10:20 AM CT – Meeting Room 11
(BM, IN, OR) From Materials to Medicines: New Innovations in Fluorine Chemistry

Jennifer Love, FCIC
University of Calgary
Monday, Jun. 3, 8 – 8:40 AM CT – Meeting Room 17
(EN) Chemistry of Indoor and Outdoor Atmospheres

Jennifer Murphy, MCIC
University of Toronto
Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2 – 2:40 PM CT – Meeting Room 3
(BM, OR) Nucleic Acids

Hanadi Sleiman, MCIC
McGill University
Tuesday, Jun. 4, 8:20 – 9:00 AM CT – Meeting Room 13
(AN) Analytical Chemistry General Symposium

Yolanda Hedberg, MCIC
The University of Western Ontario
Monday, Jun. 3, 2:40 – 3:20 PM CT – Meeting Room 12 (EDI)
Breaking the Barriers and Biases in Sciences: From Systemic to Scientific

Katherine Elvira
University of Victoria
Monday, Jun. 3, 2 – 2:40 PM CT – Meeting Room 12
(EDI) Breaking the Barriers and Biases in Sciences: From Systemic to Scientific

Erin M. McConnell
Carleton University
Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2:20 – 3:00 PM CT – Meeting Room 15
(CE) Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Lucia Myongwon Lee, MCC
Queen's University
Monday, Jun. 3, 9:40 – 10:20 AM CT – Meeting Room 15
(CE, EDI) Alternative Approaches to Traditional Content Delivery and Assessment Design in Chemistry Education

Nicholas J. Roberts, MCIC
University of Victoria
Wednesday, Jun. 5, 11 – 11:40 AM CT – Meeting Room 9
(IN, MT, PTC) Modern Spectroscopic Approaches for Deciphering Complex Phenomena

Yunjie Xu
University of Alberta
Thursday, Jun. 6, 2 – 2:40 PM CT – Room 2H East
(OR) New Strategies in Synthesis and Catalytic Methods

Stephen Newman, MCIC
University of Ottawa
Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2 – 2:40 PM CT – Meeting Room 1
(PTC) Physical, Theoretical, Computational Chemistry General Session

Makhsud Saidaminov, MCIC
University of Victoria
Thursday, Jun. 6, 8:40 – 9:20 AM CT – Meeting Room 3
(BM, OR) Nucleic Acids

John Cameron Cole Whitney
McMaster University
Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2 – 2:40 PM CT – Room 2H East
(OR) New Strategies in Synthesis and Catalytic Methods

Shawn Collins, MCIC
Université de Montréal
Thursday, Jun. 6, 3:40 – 4:20 PM CT – Meeting Room 12 (AN)
Advanced Microfluidics and Miniaturized systems for Small Scale and Portable Analysis

Aaron Wheeler, MCIC
University of Toronto
Monday, Jun. 3, 2 – 2:40 PM CT – Meeting Room 7
(CE, IN, MT) Coordination Polymers, MOFs, and Supramolecular Inorganic Chemistry

Daniel B. Leznoff, FCIC
Simon Fraser University
Tuesday, Jun. 4, 8:40 – 9:20 AM CT – Meeting Room 9
(IN, MT) The Meeting Place of Structure, Reactivity and Property

Rodney D. L. Smith, MCIC
University of Waterloo
Thursday, Jun. 6, 8 – 8:40 AM CT – Meeting Room 1
(PTC) Physical, Theoretical, Computational Chemistry General Session

Tao Zeng, MCIC
York University
Monday, Jun. 3, 8 – 8:40 AM CT – Meeting Room 13
(AN) Analytical Chemistry General Symposium

Michael Serpe, MCIC
University of Alberta
Thursday, Jun. 6, 11:50 – 12:30 PM CT – Meeting Room 7
(MS) Engineered Polymers and Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

Arghya Paul, MCIC
The University of Western Ontario