Queen’s Chemical Engineering and the Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association (CEGSA) will be hosting the 1st annual Queen’s Chemical Engineering Research Day on Sept. 11 in Kingston, Ont. Graduate and undergraduate students will have the opportunity to participate in a poster competition for...
Read More >>Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) members Nicolas Abatzoglou, Gregory Evans, Robert Magee, Vladimiros Papangelakis, Federico Rosei, Michael V. Sefton, FCIC, and Huining Xiao were awarded Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) Fellowships in June. Fellows of the academy are elected by their peers...
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.
Read More >>When Canadian Liquid Air Company Limited ran this ad in Chemistry in Canada in 1951, its founding firm, Air Liquide of France, was one year shy of its 50th anniversary....
Read More >>This past May, green chemistry enthusiasts and supporters gathered at the University of Toronto for the Green Chemistry Applied in Industry Symposium. The conference, which was organized entirely by students, brought in 14 high-profile speakers...
Read More >>This past April, the Canada Council for the Arts announced the recipients of the 2015 Killam Program. This included six Killam Research Fellowships, three of which went to chemists. The fellowship is valued at $840,000, which will be distributed...
Read More >>This year’s winner of the Chemical Institute of Canada Beaumier Award for High School/Cégep Chemistry Teachers is Yvonne Clifford of Jacob Hespeler Secondary School in Cambridge, Ont. The national award is sponsored by the CIC’s Beaumier Churcott Fund and recognizes...
Read More >>Don Mutton, FCIC, (right), of the Chemical Institute of Canada’s Hawkesbury Local Section presents the CIC trophy for Best Project to Jeremy Malette and Samantha Peets from St. Joseph’s Secondary School in Cornwall, Ont. Their project, “UPOD: The Sixth Sense”...
Read More >>This past April, the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC) released its Responsible Care Performance: Delivering on our Commitments in Toronto at Chemistry 2015, the Canadian industry’s premier safety and sustainability conference. ...
Read More >>The Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS) 13th annual conference took place this past May at McGill University. About 220 participants attended the conference and 49 posters were shown. Speakers included Zhenan Bao of Stanford University...
Read More >>Spectrochemical analysis, which is an integral instrument in many university and industrial chemistry laboratories, rests — like so many modern-day innovations — upon the shoulders of giants. The giant, in...
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