As we continue to celebrate IYPT2019 and IUPAC100, we are featuring those outstanding members of the Canadian chemistry...
Read More >>The 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE) in Quebec City featured an entire day of sessions devoted to various aspects of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) as they affect people in all walks of their personal and working lives. It marked the third year that this theme has made up a major part of...
Read More >>CIC’s Vancouver section held a two-day workshop at the end of April that considered new ways teaching hands-on skills through a technique called Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning.
Read More >>Paul Smith, Vice President of Xerox Innovation Group and Director of the Xerox Research Centre of Canada, became the Vice-Chair of the Chemical Institute of Canada’s Board of Directors at the organization’s Annual General Meeting in Quebec City on June 6.
Read More >>The Canadian Society for Chemistry elected its 2019-2020 board at the June 6 Annual General Meeting in Quebec City, where the directors re-affirmed their commitment to the organization’s strategic initiatives.
Read More >>The 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Quebec City offered some 2500 participants from government, industry...
Read More >>Many members and non-members ask themselves whether the Canadian Society for Chemistry owns a scientific journal. Well, as it turns out the CSC actually co-owns a rather “high-profile” journal and it is not the one you are thinking of! While we actively promote the Canadian Journal of Chemistry as a viable publishing venue for Canadian...
Read More >>CIC congratulates its members who were among those presented with major awards from NSERC on May 6, 2019 at a ceremony held at the Governor General’s residence. Douglas Stephan, FCIC, a professor in the University of Toronto’s Department of Chemistry, received is the John C. Polanyi Award, which honours an individual or team whose Canadian-based...
Read More >>The Chemical Engineering Graduate Club (CEGC) at the University of Calgary has become the newest CSChE Graduate Student Chapter. The group kicked off its activities at the beginning of the March with a technical talk by Dr. Ruth Cardinaels, an assistant professor from University of Eindhoven in Netherlands. She specializes in the development of multiphasic...
Read More >>The most prominent author of a major report on research funding continues to warn Canadians that they must do more to compete in a world where investments in science and technology essentially drive a country’s standard of living. David Naylor, who chaired the nine-member advisory panel that drafted the 2017 Fundamental Science Review (FSR), places...
Read More >>For the last six years the Chemical Engineering Departments of Polytechnique Montréal and McGill University have mounted an event for professors and students to share ideas and showcase their work. This year Université Laval joined the latest annual Research Day, which was held in March 19-20 at Polytechnique Montréal. The event was sponsored by the...
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