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...
Read More >>Sophie Lavieri, a Simon Fraser University senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and director of SFU’s Science in Action outreach program, was named one of Canada’s 10 most influential...
Read More >>More than 1,000 researchers, academics, students and industry representatives came together for the 64th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in the spectacular setting of Niagara Falls October 19-22. The theme of the conference was “Advanced Materials, Energy, and Sustainability.”
Read More >>The Industrial Chemistry Conference, presented by the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC), the Canadian Society for Chemical Technology (CSCT) and the Association of the Chemical Profession of Alberta (ACPA) debuted in Edmonton Nov. 12-14.
Read More >>The Quebec Centre for Functional Materials (CQMF) held its 7th Annual Conference in Shawinigan, Que. this past November.
Read More >>IndigoKids at the Toronto Eaton Centre was the place to be Oct. 19 for a little bit of chemistry magic to celebrate National Chemistry Week. he hands-on activities, sponsored by the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC), included a demonstration of fruit batteries, where galvanized nails...
Read More >>Drew Bennett, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo, is this year’s winner of the $20,000 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Chemistry.
Read More >>The Chemical Institute of Canada wishes to extend its condolences to the families of Philip Ashbaugh of Burlington, Ont., Richard (Dick) Ford, FCIC, of Parry Sound, Ont. and Martin B. Hocking, FCIC, of Victoria.
Read More >>About 1,000 people, including many primary grade school students, flocked to Malvern Town Centre in Scarborough, Ont. Oct. 25 to explore the fun and fascinating side of chemistry...
Read More >>The Second Battle of Ypres by Richard Jack was commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials Fund to commemorate the first major action of Canadian troops at the Western Front during...
Read More >>Few modern companies have roots reaching back to the Renaissance. Merck, the oldest pharmaceutical company in the world, is one of them. The company was created in 1668 by German...
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