Bright future
PHOTONIC CHEMISTRY
Through his company Phantin, Cheng Lu, pictured here at a solar farm in Jiangsu province in China, has...
Read More >>Chameleon chemist
EDUCATION
When Jennifer Murphy was growing up in Portugal Cove, NL, her father would take her cod jigging, a uniquely Newfoundland way of fishing that involves throwing a piece of baited line with hooks into the water, then letting it sink. As the line is retrieved, it is tugged...
Read More >>Renaissance man
CLASS DISTINCTION
Université Laval’s Antoine Marceau says that chemical engineering is key to Canada’s economic prosperity. Photo credit: Amélie Marceau When Université Laval chemical engineering student Antoine Marceau was growing up, his friends...
Read More >>Flight risks
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
A herring gull colony is no place for the faint of heart, says Robert Letcher, research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Head of the Environmental and...
Read More >>Common sense chemist
CLASS DISTINCTION
U of T PhD candidate Laura Reyes is committed to communicating the virtues of green chemistry.
Read More >>Mitigation made to measure
PETROCHEMISTRY
On June 21, India launched the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre with 20 satellites aboard, including one made by the Canadian firm GHGSat...
Read More >>Rare student
CLASS DISTINCTION
Jackson Knott nabs the 2015 Award for Undergraduate Research in Inorganic Chemistry from the Canadian Society for Chemistry for his work developing rare earth-containing complexes.
Read More >>Cellulose dreams
POLYMER CHEMISTRY
The tradition of adding straw and other natural fibres to mud to strengthen earthen bricks and reduce their cracking...
Read More >>Under pressure
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
In the mid-1990s, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an in-depth report on how human activity was...
Read More >>Rarefied air
EDUCATION
Particulate matter holds special interest for atmospheric chemist Graydon Snider, who is not only a Dalhousie University postdoctoral fellow but a competitive long-distance runner. Last summer, Dalhousie University’s Graydon Snider...
Read More >>Food for Thought
BIOCHEMISTRY
For most people, pushing the boundaries of culinary experience might mean switching to an Italian Vermentino after years devoted to drinking...
Read More >>Tough Times
CLASS DISTINCTION
Annicia Phu sports a cauliflower ear, a souvenir from her years as a competitive wrestler in high school in Calgary. Jammed fingers and bruises were also commonplace — not only...
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