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Roland Andersson
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Author: Roland Andersson

Celebrating a chemistry conference centenary

EDITORIAL
BY: Roland Andersson

A “Celebration of Chemistry” is a most appropriate theme for the 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2017) taking place in Toronto May 28-June 1, 2017. This landmark event...

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Recognition of “chemist” as a profession growing

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
BY: Roland Andersson

On June 1 at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Vancouver, the provincial chemistry associations of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia created a new national...

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Networking opens the door to new career opportunities

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
BY: Roland Andersson

Just before turning 30, after working for two chemical manufacturing companies, I was headhunted and offered a tremendous job opportunity with a large salary increase and company car. I did...

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Our National Museum of Science and Technology deserves a new home

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
BY: Roland Andersson

This past August, the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa welcomed its 20 millionth visitor. Quite a milestone and one made all the more remarkable considering that the museum...

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Chemical outreach through conversation — not ad campaigns

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
BY: Roland Andersson

We might never be able to get the general public to fully understand and appreciate the chemical sectors and professions — and in my personal opinion we should not waste...

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Is stiffer competition for research dollars a good thing for Canada?

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
BY: Roland Andersson

After the March 2013 federal budget, our chemical sciences and engineering community seemed to be staying mum on what the academic research community had received. Perhaps the changes made by...

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If academia is your path, think outside the university

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
BY: Roland Andersson

The cover of the January 21 issue of Maclean’s, which promised to explain “why so many smart, educated, ambitious young people have no future” was enough to make any university...

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