Chemistry clicks for the latest Lionel scholar
This year’s winner of the Lionel High School Scholarship proudly flaunts her passion for chemistry and all that it implies. “I have been a science nerd since the dawn of...
Read More >>Meeting a viral challenge
Laboratories around the world are racing to understand COVID-19, the potentially lethal virus that has upended everything from our personal lifestyles to the underpinnings of the global economy. Such work...
Read More >>Stepping out of science and into something less comfortable
Patience is an undeniable virtue in science, and not just in matters confined to the laboratory. Alison Thompson, MCIC and winner of the 2020 Clara Benson Award, recently offered an...
Read More >>Innovating along a linear path
It has been a decade since the world grappled with the challenge posed by Canada’s aging nuclear reactor, the NRU, which at one point was producing almost half of the...
Read More >>Celebrating the rainbow
The indefatigable scientist Richard Feynman once defended the subjectivity of beauty by pointing out that if our eyes were receptive to a different part of the electromagnetic spectrum, the only...
Read More >>Meeting a critical need in a supercritical way
It has been almost a decade since Gisele Azimi was pursuing post-doctoral work at MIT, where she realized just how dependent our technology was becoming on rare earth elements, which...
Read More >>Teaming up in the trenches of on-line teaching
COMMUNITY NEWS
Post-secondary chemistry instructors across the country have generally reconciled themselves to teaching in on-line settings for the foreseeable future and most of them are preparing to deliver all kinds of...
Read More >>Getting maple syrup to show its true colours
RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Gold may be among the most distinctive colours in nature, but the element shows a very different character at smaller scales. At sizes of less than 100 nanometers, they absorb...
Read More >>Canada Research Chair-holder honoured by CSChE
RECOGNITION
Ajay Dalai, FCIC, a Distinguished Professor in the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, is the 2020 recipient of the R. S. Jane Memorial Award. This annual...
Read More >>Taking stock of a working group that has worked
COMMUNITY NEWS
Although the current COVID crisis means CCCE is not taking place in Winnipeg this month, The Canadian Society for Chemistry’s Working Group on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (WIDE) continues to...
Read More >>Nano-scale innovation makes an outsized impact
COMMUNITY NEWS
The same technology that safeguards the authenticity of the bills in our purses and wallets has provided a new medium for creative visual expression, thanks to an innovative collaboration between...
Read More >>Meet the National Office Team: Tiffany Noel
CIC MEMBERS
What do you do at the CIC? Most of my time is devoted to the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, where I am the first point of contact for new...
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