When Mary Kang landed an environmental policy fellowship at Princeton University in 2012, she decided to model methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells. It didn’t take long to discover a major roadblock. “I couldn’t find any data. And you need data for modelling,” recalls Kang, now a civil engineering professor at McGill University.
Read More >>Environmental contaminants can have different effects on women and men. The International Pollutants Elimination Network recently connected the dots between sex, gender, and chemicals with its report about the distinct effects of chemicals on women. It found women are disproportionally impacted by exposure to chemicals and have less access to participation in decision making.
Read More >>We compiled a collection featuring the top downloaded papers that were published in 2020, aptly named 2020 in Review: Most Downloaded Articles. It includes articles from our Established Leaders and Experimental Methods Special Series and features authors from University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Polytechnique Montréal, University of Ottawa, University of Calgary, University of British Columbia, and McGill University, among others. Have a look and see if any of the titles catch your eye.
Read More >>The unique structure in my ChemiSTEAM image – analogous to a rose – highlights the imperfections in a MOF. Contrary to the expected smooth outcome, the crystallization process gave rise to textured MOF layers that correlate to an irregular morphology which can be appreciated in many ways, as there can be key findings to take away from it.
Read More >>In 2020 David Schlachter, a chemical engineering graduate student at Polytechnique Montréal, attended the Canadian Science Policy Conference on behalf of the CIC. At the conference David attended a panel discussion on the social contract between science and the public, and he has shared the highlights of this panel discussion.
Read More >>It wasn’t until I was troubleshooting my research, knee deep in my PhD, that I realized it was because of how much fun I was having playing and creating in the lab. Chemistry was my medium.
Read More >>Catalyst (noun): an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action. ‘Catalyst for change’ is such a well-worn phrase that it has lost much of its descriptive power. But in the case of a new materials research centre in Mississauga, it is apt on so many levels that it’s hard to avoid.
Read More >>In 1971, U.S. researchers published a proof-of-concept showing how a cyclotron could produce the world’s most commonly used medical isotope. For the next four decades, the paper sat on a shelf. In 2009, University of British Columbia radiologist Dr. François Bénard dusted it off and thought, ‘Why not try to develop that technology?’
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