Is hockey the greatest sport on earth? Few Canadians would disagree. In terms of speed and intensity, hockey is unmatched by any other game. It is also the consummate team sport. A win is impossible unless every player works together, each athlete giving — as the cliché goes — 110 percent.
Read More >>Judy Fairburn, the executive adviser of Alberta-based Cenovus Energy Inc., offered a surprising perspective of the petroleum industry at the 65th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, held October 4-7 at the Calgary Telus Convention Centre.
Read More >>The fall semester started off with a bang at Queen’s University. In the midst of orientation week, the Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association (CEGSA), in conjunction with the Queen’s Department of Chemical Engineering and the Canadian Society...
Read More >>Last month, David Leblanc made a kind of pilgrimage to Oak Ridge, Tenn. to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a very special moment in nuclear history. From 1965 until 1969,...
Read More >>Strategically wedged between the many lanes of the Trans-Canada Highway and Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport at the west end of the island of Montreal, the Saint-Laurent Campus of Technoparc...
Read More >>Dan Bizzotto of the University of British Columbia has been selected as the winner of the 2015 Prix Jacques Tacussel from the International Society for Electrochemistry, in recognition of his contribution to the development of in situ electrochemical fluorescence microscopy...
Read More >>The Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) has announced its 2015 award winners. Official presentations took place at the 65th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Calgary held this past October. Details about the winners’ research are available at...
Read More >>This past September marked a busy month for Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) student activities. Following a poster competition and trivia night, career development leader Amy Reckling set off on a two-week tour in late September to meet with students enrolled...
Read More >>An increasingly important role of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) is the accreditation of undergraduate chemistry degree programs. National accreditation is awarded by the CSC only to those programs that meet the rigorous high standards of education and...
Read More >>The Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) has successfully turned the Process Safety Management Standard (PSM) it developed three years ago into the Canadian Standards Association’s first national standard.
Read More >>However much it sounds like science fiction, we can envision the day when clinicians will be able to synthesize replacements for almost any part of our bodies using hardware little more complex than an ink jet printer. Already this technology can be used to...
Read More >>The colour of our food is important not only from an aesthetic perspective but an evolutionary one. Psychologists have theorized that human adaptation and survival are due in part to...
Read More >>Mopping up a diesel fuel spill is never easy, especially at the world’s most northerly habitation on Ellesmere Island, where spring, summer and fall are over in about eight weeks and the ground remains frozen the rest of the year. Nevertheless, members...
Read More >>Paul Chirak, a Princeton University researcher specializing in catalysts for new methods of chemical synthesis, has turned to GreenCentre Canada for help in commercializing products he has been developing. GreenCentre, an organization based in Kingston, Ont., ...
Read More >>Just as bad ingredients can make for an unsatisfying and perhaps downright unpleasant meal, bad chemical probes can lead to incorrect or misleading scientific outcomes. University of Toronto biochemist Aled Edwards is a staunch advocate of this perspective,...
Read More >>“Protons do a lot,” says Mark Daymond, pointing to a container of hydrogen the size of a coffee thermos that will feed protons into an accelerator the size of a school bus. These protons, Daymond says, will do even more by making it possible...
Read More >>David Strangway has been a prominent and influential voice in science policy Canada for more than four decades. A former president of three universities: Toronto, UBC and Quest in Squamish,...
Read More >>When chemical engineering students graduate, they face a career dilemma other recent grads would kill for. Should they go into oil refining or biotechnology? Pharmaceuticals, nuclear energy or the food industry? Process development or project management? Whether they’re investigating toxins in our oceans or researching polymers in space, for new chemical engineers looking for employment the sky is literally the limit.
Read More >>In 1996 I joined the Canadian Chemical Producers Association, now the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC). That was the best career decision I ever made for me and for my family. During the past 19 years I have been fortunate to work with industry leaders who were dedicated to the development of a sustainable chemistry industry in Canada and to our global leadership in Responsible Care (RC).
Read More >>Well, it’s finally over — for now. The 2015 federal election results are in with a new majority Liberal government. What does it all mean for the future of science...
Read More >>Next year marks an important anniversary in chemical history. In 1916, Gilbert Lewis published his seminal paper on chemical bonding, “The Atom and the Molecule,” from which were born Lewis...
Read More >>We share our body with up to a thousand varieties of bacteria. They live in our mouth, our skin and mostly in our digestive tract. They total some 100 trillion...
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