Industry representatives, academic researchers and students attended the first annual, one-day Industrial Chemistry and Engineering Conference this past Nov. 2 in Toronto. Held at the International Plaza Hotel, the meeting offered delegates the chance to learn...
Read More >>Last October was a busy month for Matthew Lukeman, chemistry professor at Acadia University, who championed the Chemical Institute of Canada’s Maritime Local Section’s inaugural “CIC Chemistry Bus.” Inspired by the CIC Edmonton Local Section’s “Café CIC,”...
Read More >>As part of its ongoing advocacy initiatives, the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) submits an annual Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (FINA). CIC, through executive director Roland Andersson, also maintains an active membership...
Read More >>Judy Fairburn, the executive adviser of Alberta-based Cenovus Energy Inc., offered a surprising perspective of the petroleum industry at the 65th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, held October 4-7 at the Calgary Telus Convention Centre.
Read More >>The fall semester started off with a bang at Queen’s University. In the midst of orientation week, the Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association (CEGSA), in conjunction with the Queen’s Department of Chemical Engineering and the Canadian Society...
Read More >>Dan Bizzotto of the University of British Columbia has been selected as the winner of the 2015 Prix Jacques Tacussel from the International Society for Electrochemistry, in recognition of his contribution to the development of in situ electrochemical fluorescence microscopy...
Read More >>The Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) has announced its 2015 award winners. Official presentations took place at the 65th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Calgary held this past October. Details about the winners’ research are available at...
Read More >>This past September marked a busy month for Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) student activities. Following a poster competition and trivia night, career development leader Amy Reckling set off on a two-week tour in late September to meet with students enrolled...
Read More >>An increasingly important role of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) is the accreditation of undergraduate chemistry degree programs. National accreditation is awarded by the CSC only to those programs that meet the rigorous high standards of education and...
Read More >>The colour of our food is important not only from an aesthetic perspective but an evolutionary one. Psychologists have theorized that human adaptation and survival are due in part to...
Read More >>Canadian high school students brought home two silver medals and two bronze medals from the 47th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), held July 20-29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Read More >>The 40th Annual Science Atlantic/CIC Chemistry Conference (ChemCon) was held this past May at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fredericton. More than 100 undergraduate and graduate chemistry students from the Atlantic provinces came together to learn about student research and to share their work.
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