Pipe Cleaner
PETROCHEMISTRY
An oilfield worker from BP Exploration first noticed the acrid smell while driving near the...
Read More >>Roland Andersson farewell message
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
After 19 years (1998-2017), Roland Andersson, FCIC, will be stepping down as executive director of the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) on December 31, 2017. Here he reflects on his time at the CIC and highlights team-based achievements.
Read More >>Ontario’s new Chief Science Officer member of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
University of Toronto researcher and Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering member Molly Shoichet has become the first Chief Science Officer to the Ontario government.
Read More >>CSChE welcomes new president Donna Jean Kilpatrick
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Donna Jean Kilpatrick was welcomed as Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering (CSChE) President, taking on the role following the CSChE Annual General Meeting in Edmonton, AB on October 24, 2017.
Read More >>MUN students take the excitement of chemistry to Inuit community
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
During the week of Thanksgiving, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) students Chaim Andersen and Yu-Ru Lee, together with professor of chemistry Geoffrey Rayner-Canham, FCIC, took the MUN Grenfell Campus Chemistry...
Read More >>Toronto local section hosts Polly Arnold for 2017 E Gordon Young lectures
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
On October 28, 2017, the Toronto CIC Local Section had the pleasure of working with the Women in Chemistry Toronto group in hosting Professor Polly L. Arnold from the University...
Read More >>Winners of the CSChE2017 Student Competitions
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
We are please to announce the winners of the student competitions from the 67th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE 2017): Graduate Student Poster Competition, 3-Minute Elevator Pitch Comeptition, Hatch Plant Design Competition, Robert G. Auld Student Competition and Reg Friesen Student Paper Competition. Congratulations to all participants for very strong entries in each of the competitions!
Read More >>Professional Development Course: Design of Experiments
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
The Design of Experiments course offered by the Chemical Institute of Canada through CI360 was full of such useful information and techniques that I would recommend it to anyone in any field. The two-day course left each participant with more knowledge and an excitement to use statistics in their workplace.
Read More >>Assessing the aging of aerosols
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
Our planet’s lower atmosphere is one very busy place, chemically speaking, as climate researchers have discovered. They are developing a new appreciation of complex processes such as cloud formation and radiative forcing, which determines how much light from the sun can reach the earth’s surface and how much heat can escape.
Read More >>CIC announces new executive director (Ian Jobe)
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Dr. Ian Jobe, MCIC, has been appointed as the new executive director of the CIC and its constituent societies (CSC, CSChE, CSCT). Ian’s almost thirty years of experience in the chemistry and chemical science industry, background and experience in R&D and technology and non-profit leadership, governance, and management made him the best candidate to lead the CIC national office team. Ian will officially begin as the CIC executive director on January 2, 2018.
Read More >>Royal Society of Canada 2017 award winners include chemists Chen and Lautens
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has announced its 2017 award winners which includes chemists Zhongwei Chen and Mark Lautens. The RSC has also named its new Fellows (including Dennis Hall, Mario Leclerc, Stephen Loeb, Milica Radisic, Laurel Schafer, Frank Wania and Jiujun Zhang) and members of The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (including Joule Bergerson, Frank Gu and Ute Kothe).
Read More >>The future is microscopic
BIOCHEMISTRY
Watch any New York City cop drama, from Law & Order to Blue Bloods, and you will see what filmmakers call an “establishing” shot.
Read More >>Hold your nose
BIOCHEMISTRY
Humanity’s use of essential oils goes back thousands of years, with natural agents such as frankincense playing...
Read More >>Revealing the knotty roots of natural products
NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY
Naturally occurring complex molecules make attractive research targets, especially if they have some compelling property like antibiotic behaviour. University of British Columbia chemistry professor Katherine Ryan...
Read More >>Rubbing a venerable polymer the right way
POLYMERS
Rubber polymers have been capturing the attention of chemists and the wider public since at least 1770, when pioneering chemist Joseph Priestley coined the term for a material that could remove lead pencil marks from paper.
Read More >>Is diesel’s dirty reputation for pollution undeserved?
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
Which is cleaner, diesel or gasoline? It’s a complex question. While diesel emits more greenhouse gases per gallon, it is also more energy dense and can result in greater fuel economy, lowering emissions...
Read More >>A teaching moment
EDUCATION
College and university professors need to collaborate with high school teachers to better prepare students for post-secondary education. First off, let me say how absolutely fabulous it was to receive...
Read More >>Molecular architect
EDUCATION
Samantha Smith of the University of Toronto is devising new catalysts and ligands to enhance the creation of chemicals in industry and the pharmaceutical sector. Samantha Smith sees many similarities...
Read More >>Dangerous chemicals lurk in holistic medicine
CHEMFUSION
Divide some laboratory rabbits into three groups. Feed one group normal rabbit chow, the second group a high-cholesterol diet and the third a high-cholesterol diet supplemented with 0.2 percent curcumin....
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