University of Victoria civil engineering Professor Heather Buckley led a team that has won an international award for its contribution to resolving one of the leading challenges surrounding...
Read More >>Kazim Agha loved life in the laboratory, but he vividly recalls how difficult it was to begin thinking outside of this setting. That became necessary in 2002, just as he was completing his PhD...
Read More >>The ancient alchemists might have marveled at the season premiere of CBC television’s Dragon’s Den in September, when a University of Saskatchewan...
Read More >>Decades after the lithium-oxygen (Li-O2) battery was first conceived, this design continues to capture the imagination of investigators who anticipate that it might yet improve energy density..
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Read More >>Gender issues in chemistry are obtaining an unprecedented profile in academic and industry circles, thanks in large part to the work of women in chemistry organizations across the country. These activities have accelerated dramatically with the creation...
Read More >>Among the major variables supporting the science around climate change is the amount of carbon that is stored in the world’s soil. Predictions about the state of our environment regularly hinge...
Read More >>Duncan Hunter, now a professor emeritus in Western University’s Department of Chemistry, easily recalls the day in the late 1980s that he and his laboratory team were batting around ideas for improving the performance of a radioactive...
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Read More >>For Trudy Lionel, who recently retired after a successful and satisfying career in the chemical sciences, the most promising way to augment that experience has been the prospect of helping others start their own career in the field.
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Read More >>The prospect of losing a tooth is never pleasant, but modern dentistry continues to make the problem more manageable. Over the last decade the field has been transformed by implant technology, which inserts a replacement tooth...
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