Making connections in Quebec
CONFERENCES
The 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition took place in Quebec City at the beginning of June. It was an opportunity for more than 2,500 CIC members to explore the...
Read More >>Recognizing the best
CIC MEMBERS
The CIC has a long tradition of showcasing the talent this country produces in the chemical sciences, as a review of this year’s award winners will confirm. The list includes...
Read More >>Meet the National Office team: Ki-Youn Kim
CIC MEMBERS
What do you do at the CIC? I am the office’s Community Development Coordinator, which means I wear many different hats. Sometimes you will find me working with our members...
Read More >>Battling “buddy”
CHEMISTRY FOR SOCIETY
As if collecting the sap of maple trees and transforming it into syrup were not challenging enough, sugar bush operators can find all their hard work ruined in its final stages by an off-flavour that goes by the ironic name of “buddy”. Although the suspected cause is some organic constituent absorbed by sap as it makes its way through the inner recesses of the tree, this problem has remained unexplained and unpredictable.
Read More >>Meet the National Office team: Hamish McPherson
CIC MEMBERS
What do you do at CIC? I am the Communications Coordinator. Among other things, I’m the one who assembles the bi-weekly newsletter that arrives in every member’s inbox. I also...
Read More >>Trash becomes treasure for green chemistry group
CIC MEMBERS
Several dozen chemists and their colleagues spent a couple of hours one Saturday this fall cleaning up a west end park in Toronto as part of what can only be...
Read More >>Canada to host the World’s Leading Computational and Theoretical Chemists in 2020
RESEARCH & INNOVATION
The 12th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC 2020) will be held August 16-21, 2020 in Vancouver. The event will mark the latest stage...
Read More >>A showcase for solutions
CONFERENCES
Students could be seen squirming in their seats while Shafiq Jaffer, MCIC, listed the world’s woes. As Vice-President of Corporate Science and Technology Projects in North America for the French...
Read More >>NSERC introduces new research funding options
CAREERS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
This year’s Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Halifax features a professional development session that will introduce participants to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s new Alliance Grants program. The...
Read More >>Take a quick conference overview
CONFERENCES
CIC graphic designer extraordinaire Krista Leroux has made it easy for you to navigate the busy itinerary of the upcoming Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, which takes place in Halifax from October 20-23.
Read More >>Guts and glory
CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH
Emma Allen-Vercoe touts her motto as “My microbes told me to do it”. The phrase captures the essence of her work as a professor in the University of Guelph’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, where she has spent more than a decade exploring the daunting biochemical frontier that makes up the human gut. This all too familiar part of our anatomy — which most of us would prefer to think of as a simple black box that turns food into feces — harbours an anaerobic environment known as the microbiome.
Read More >>Pursuing policy
CIC MEMBERS
Thomas Baker, FCIC, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Catalysis Science for Energy Applications at the University of Ottawa, recently became a faculty affiliate with the university’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP). This position will allow him to participate in ISSP governance meetings, where he can contribute to setting priorities for this multi-disciplinary academic body’s work on teaching, research, and outreach.
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