Microwaved Coal
ENERGY
Stick a chunk of lignite in your home microwave and you’ll find that it doesn’t even warm up: coal is transparent to microwave radiation. But you might also notice that...
Read More >>Visiting McGill University professor lectures on silk
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Mark Cronin-Golomb, a visiting professor at McGill University’s Fonds de recherché Nature et technologies (FQRNT) Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS)...
Read More >>Grapevine
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Geoff Rayner-Canham, FCIC, of Memorial University and Tina Overton of the University of Hull, United Kingdom, authored the newly published Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry, 6th edition. The textbook includes a correlation of...
Read More >>Students sparkle at crystal awards
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Canadian high school students and teachers, including some international entries, competed last fall in the Chemical Institute of Canada’s annual National Crystal Growing Competition to create the best quality, largest...
Read More >>2013 It’s Chemistry, Eh?! contest winners announced
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The 2013 It’s Chemistry Eh?! YouTube contest was an overwhelming success with 22 entries from high school students across Canada. The videos embraced such chemistry topics as the benefits of chemistry...
Read More >>Canadian Journal of Chemistry announces new Best Paper Award
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The monthly Canadian Journal of Chemistry (CJC) is announcing a new Best Paper Award to recognize the top submission published by a scientist residing in Canada.
Read More >>Prix du Québec for chemistry professor
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James Wuest (left) of the Université de Montréal Department of Chemistry received the Prix du Québec Marie-Victorin Award from...
Read More >>Then and Now
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On going concerns about Syria’s use of chemical weapons against its own civilians and Canada’s role in detecting and destroying the vast arsenal have renewed public interest...
Read More >>Alfred and Isabel Bader to receive Queen’s Alumni Achievement Award
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The highest honour that can be bestowed upon Queen’s University grads — the Alumni Achievement Award — will be presented to philanthropist couple, chemist Alfred Bader, HFCIC, and his wife....
Read More >>Energy tops agenda at CSChE Conference
CONFERENCES
More than 900 researchers, academics, students and governement and industry representatives descended upon New Brunswick last October for the 63rd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, held in picturesque Fredericton. The conference theme, “Resources, Environment, Energy,” addressed the critical issues facing chemical engineers today in Canada and around the world. Symposia included the latest advances in forest biorefinery, nanotechnology, ...
Read More >>Centennial celebration at U of S
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The University of Saskatchewan Department of Chemistry celebrated 100 years of graduates during last October’s National Chemistry Week in Saskatoon. The event included a tribute to alumnus Henry Taube’s 1983...
Read More >>Access to science journals reinstated
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have entered into an agreement that will provide access to chemistry journals at Canadian universities without a download-based...
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