In the early 1980s, China sent a select group of 100 graduate students to study abroad – the first to leave the country since the Cultural Revolution. Ninety-seven young men and three young women, including the late Suning Wang, FCIC, made that ground-breaking journey. A whip-smart,...
Read More >>It’s time to submit your nominations for the 2022 Catalysis Division R. B. Anderson Award. The Catalysis Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada administrates the R. B. Anderson Award...
Read More >>The CIC recently sent Queen’s University PhD chemistry student Bailey Smith to the virtual 2020 Canadian Science Policy Conference. Smith sampled panels on topics ranging from a green recovery to...
Read More >>On November 26th, 2020, the CIC Montreal Chapter hosted their first Online Job Fair. The event brought together close to a hundred people, including young graduates and industry representatives, all...
Read More >>What Does it Mean for Science Communication and Decision-Making? The CIC recently sent Trent University M.Sc. graduate student Josephine C. Esposto to the virtual 2020 Canadian Science Policy Conference. Esposto sat...
Read More >>Is the role of scientists in public policy changing? And should it? The CIC recently sent Wilfrid Laurier University biological and chemical sciences PhD student Carolyn Brown to the virtual...
Read More >>Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and readers for your support throughout 2020! Can you believe it is nearly the end of the year? The editorial team at The Canadian...
Read More >>The Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CCEC) 2020’s special equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) programming brought EDI to the forefront of the conversations happening in the Canadian chemical engineering community. This...
Read More >>What do poultry, chocolate, bananas and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower have in common? They all contain an essential amino acid called tryptophan, which launches a biochemical...
Read More >>With Canada in the midst of a second wave of COVID-19, faculty are breathing a sigh of relief that at least they won’t be asked to navigate a second sudden...
Read More >>Temitayo Urubusi was initially fully intent on working in engineering. After finishing her degree in chemical engineering at Nigeria’s Obafemi Awolowo University, she took an internship as an engineering assistant...
Read More >>How the virus’s chemical signature gives advance warning of the rise and fall of community transmission. As the pandemic’s second wave tightens its grip across the country, researchers, municipalities, and public health agencies are experimenting with a COVID-19 early warning system that tests wastewater for the virus’s unique chemical signature. Swab tests for the coronavirus are expensive and we aren’t capturing enough data for a true picture of how many people are infected, say epidemiologists.
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