Conference Menu

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

Lisa Rosenberg, FCIC

University of Victoria

CIC Award Lectures

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

CSC Award Lectures

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

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