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May 2020
CIC News

Issue: May 2020

Canada Research Chair-holder honoured by CSChE

RECOGNITION
BY: Tim Lougheed

Ajay Dalai, FCIC, a Distinguished Professor in the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, is the 2020 recipient of the R. S. Jane Memorial Award. This annual...

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Teaming up in the trenches of on-line teaching

COMMUNITY NEWS
BY: Tim Lougheed

Post-secondary chemistry instructors across the country have generally reconciled themselves to teaching in on-line settings for the foreseeable future and most of them are preparing to deliver all kinds of...

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Getting maple syrup to show its true colours

RESEARCH & INNOVATION
BY: Tim Lougheed

Gold may be among the most distinctive colours in nature, but the element shows a very different character at smaller scales. At sizes of less than 100 nanometers, they absorb...

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Meet the National Office Team: Kyra Van Den Bos

COMMUNITY NEWS

What do you do at the CIC? I am the Managing Editor of The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (Can. J. Chem. Eng.), which is the premier journal of the Canadian Society...

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Taking stock of a working group that has worked

COMMUNITY NEWS
BY: Tim Lougheed

Although the current COVID crisis means CCCE is not taking place in Winnipeg this month, The Canadian Society for Chemistry’s Working Group on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (WIDE) continues to...

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So, now what? The perspectives of a “laboratory-less” chemistry graduate student amid the COVID-19 outbreak

CIC STUDENTS
BY: Juliana Ladeira Vidal

On March 11th of 2020, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic across the world due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Weirdly enough, just like in those horrible...

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Turning difficulty into opportunity

CIC STUDENTS
BY: Alyne Teixeira

Last fall I reflected about the world that PhD students like me are facing, based on the insights of speakers at the Emerging Leaders in Chemical Engineering plenary session. I...

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Can. J. Chem. Eng. Embraces Transparent Peer Review

PUBLICATIONS
BY: Claire Duncan

Have you ever been frustrated by how hidden the process of scientific publishing can be? You know all of the hard work that goes into creating publishable work, but so...

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LOGIC – now virtual!

COMMUNITY NEWS
BY: Josseline Ramos-Figueroa, Simarpreet Singh

The fourth annual Leaders Overcoming Gender Inequality in Chemistry (LOGIC) conference, focused on equity, diversity and inclusion in chemistry, is generally held as an in-person satellite meeting the weekend before...

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