Energy tops agenda at CSChE Conference

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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, ...

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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...

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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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National Chemistry Week slimes Ottawa

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The Chemical Institute of Canada Ottawa Section celebrated last October’s National Chemistry Week by making slime for attendees to the Canada Science and Technology Museum. More than 100 parents and...

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Grapevine

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Gregory Jerkiewicz, professor of chemistry at Queen’s University and Editor-in-Chief of Electrocatalysis, has been appointed to the Advisory Board of FC Cubic, the Fuel Cell Cutting-Edge Research Center Technology Research Association. FC Cubic is supported

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Grapevine

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After six years at Université de Sherbrooke, Eli Zysman-Colman was appointed this past July to a prestigious EaStCHEM Research fellowship at the University of St. Andrews at St. Andrews, Fife.

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Oil spill lesson

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The Chemical Institute of Canada Edmonton Section hosted an evening with Merv Fingas, whose lecture, “Ocean Oil-Spill: The Deepwater Horizon Blowout – Chemistry and Lessons” enlightened an audience of graduate...

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Two CIC board members elected to IUPAC

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Russell Boyd, FCIC, a Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) past chair and professor of chemistry at Dalhousie University in Halifax, has been elected to a two-year term on the board of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)...

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