Student merit award winners
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This year’s Canadian Society for Chemistry Merit Award winners are: 1st place, the University of Toronto at Mississauga and honourable mention...
Read More >>Happy half century!
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The Constituent Societies of the CIC congratulate their members who are celebrating 50-years of membership in 2013: Hanspeter Alder; Howard Alper; John Apsimon; Ronald Brown; Dennis Davies; Peter Grindrod; Ross...
Read More >>Hitting the road with Attraction chimique
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For the second year in a row, Attraction chimique has received a grant of $5,000 from the CIC’s Chemical...
Read More >>After 40 years, ChemEd comes home
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This summer, ChemEd 2013 — North America’s largest gathering of chemistry educators — will return
Read More >>Errors & Omissions insurance available for professional chemists
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Accepting responsibility for one's work is a central tenet of being a professional — in practical application this means taking financial responsibility should there...
Read More >>The ‘ole cola trick draws a crowd
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Charles Lucy, a professor in the chemistry department at the University of Alberta, prepares to do a Diet-Coke-and- Mentos demonstration as part of an evening event organized by the Edmonton...
Read More >>A good mix for innovation
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Laurence Meadows of Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that funds internships and fellowships to encourage innovation, presents at a Vancouver Local Section event in...
Read More >>Glycan capture technique sheds light on cell surface proteins
BIOCHEMISTRY
A new technique for capturing glycosylated proteins, developed by a researcher at Simon Fraser University, has provided fresh insight into the relationship between the structure and function of these biomolecules,...
Read More >>CIC/SCI Canada award winners announced
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See this year’s winners of the CIC/SCI Canada awards
Read More >>Building public understanding with ‘molecular lego’
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Deoxyribonucleic acid, the blueprint of evolution, is arguably the world’s most famous molecule. But as McGill University’s Hanadi Sleiman explained to Toronto audiences last fall, the possible applications of DNA...
Read More >>Deep blue
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Copper (II) sulfate was the medium of choice for the 2012...
Read More >>ACCN goes to Parliament Hill
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All of Canada’s 308 federal Members of Parliament are now being provided with...
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