The 2018 Montreal Medal winner is chemical engineer Robert B. Magee, chair of the board of The Woodbridge Group, a Canadian-owned multinational manufacturing company with 61 facilities in 17 countries. The Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) Montreal Medal is presented as a mark of distinction...
Read More >>The lively and often random interactions of a conference setting can be life-altering for many students, who can gain unique insights and contacts that set the course of their careers. The CIC Chemical Education Fund (CEF), a registered charity that promotes events in the chemical sciences, chemical engineering,...
Read More >>Teams of students from the Western University Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering spent the day presenting their final-year projects to panels of judges from Sarnia-Lambton industries and organizations at the 13th annual Capstone Design
Read More >>Tony Ciarla, vice president of the Canadian Society for Chemical Technology and executive vice president of Alberta-based KLS Earthworks & Environmental, recently spoke with CIC's marketing manager Bernadette Lockyer.
Read More >>The National Crystal Growing Competition continues to be a popular event of National Chemistry Week each year. In 2017, high school and Cégep students grew crystals made of aluminum potassium sulfate (alum). The winners have been announced - congratulations to the winners and to all who participated this year!
Read More >>It is always great news when your paper is accepted for publication, but how can you ensure that people are actually going to find your article? Here are 7 tips on search engine optimization (SEO) to help your research reach its audience, brought to you by the CIC journal Can. J. Chem. Eng.
Read More >>The Inorganic Chemistry Division is pleased to announce the 2018 winners of the awards for graduate and undergraduate research in inorganic chemistry: Gwen Bailey and Leea Stott, respectively.
Read More >>The CIC recently implemented a new online membership renewal system. Despite best efforts, this has proven challenging to both the CIC and its members. We are currently addressing all issues and personally assisting members with their renewals.
Read More >>ACCN (L’Actualité chimique canadienne) the Canadian Chemical News will shift to an online format in 2018 to bring you more stories from the Canadian chemical community more often.
Read More >>After 19 years (1998-2017), Roland Andersson, FCIC, will be stepping down as executive director of the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) on December 31, 2017. Here he reflects on his time at the CIC and highlights team-based achievements.
Read More >>Donna Jean Kilpatrick was welcomed as Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering (CSChE) President, taking on the role following the CSChE Annual General Meeting in Edmonton, AB on October 24, 2017.
Read More >>During the week of Thanksgiving, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) students Chaim Andersen and Yu-Ru Lee, together with professor of chemistry Geoffrey Rayner-Canham, FCIC, took the MUN Grenfell Campus Chemistry...
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