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 >>The 29th annual Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC) was hosted by the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna this past May. More than 50 undergraduate students from Western...
Read More >>Science and industry celebrated their accomplishments at the CIC/SCI Canada Business Innovation Seminar and Awards Dinner. Photo credit: Krista Leroux The CIC/SCI Canada Business Innovation Seminar and Awards Dinner held...
Read More >>Top Canadian chemists were honoured at the annual Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) awards ceremony Feb. 17 at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
Read More >>The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) annual awards, recognizing the work of outstanding Canadian scientists and engineers...
Read More >>A new book by about oilsands extraction has been released by Murray Gray, FCIC, of the University of Alberta and Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar.
Read More >>The 43rd Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC) took place this past March at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Read More >>Dr. Michael Paleologou, Group Leader of FPInnovations in Québec, was named winner of the Research and Development Technical Award and William H. Aiken Prize by TAPPI’s...
Read More >>In 1901, Thomas Leopold Willson, Canadian inventor of the calcium carbide manufacturing process, created the Shawinigan Carbide Company. The facility was located near Shawinigan Falls, Que., benefitting from the surplus...
Read More >>The Chemical Institute of Canada’s National Crystal Growing Competition is a popular annual contest that tests high school students’ ability to grow the best quality, largest and heaviest single crystal. Schools across Canada were provided with materials and instructions this past September and the blue crystals, made from copper (II) sulfate pentahydrate, were submitted for national judging in November.
Read More >>| (L-R) Nazanin Mobrhan-Shafiee, Iain McKenzie, Madhvi Ramnial and John Canal networked after the BC Academic-Industry Mixer II presentation. The Chemical Institute of Canada’s Vancouver CIC Local Section, in partnership...
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