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 >>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 >>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 >>The Chemical Institute of Canada’s (CIC) fourth annual “It’s Chemistry, Eh?!” YouTube contest for high school students saw Evangeline McLaren Devenyi, a Grade 12 student at Northern Secondary School in Toronto, take first place and a cash prize of $500 for her entry, The Chemistry of Baking.
Read More >>The Chemical Institute of Canada’s Hawkesbury CIC Local Section hosted a dinner and speaker this past January in Hawkesbury, Ont. on “Managing Highway Infrastructure in the Face of Climate Change.”
Read More >>The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2015 the International Year of Soils. The goal is to enhance awareness of the important role that soils play in human life, especially as populations increase and global demand for food and fuel rises.
Read More >>Mark Lautens, FCIC, of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto was named an Officerof the Order of Canada for his contributions to organic chemistry. Christophe Guy of...
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