Dear Colleagues, We are looking for your help in identifying Early Career Chemists to represent Canada (and the CSC) at the 2nd Commonwealth Chemistry Congress in Trinidad and Tobago from May 23-25, 2023. As you will see from the link, the Congress is structured around six key UN Sustainable Development Goals and is unique in...
Read More >>Nida Sajid counts herself lucky to have landed a job during the pandemic – and even luckier to find one that offers a wide range of opportunities for newly minted chemical engineers. Sajid, who graduated from Ryerson with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering in 2020, works as an Associate-in-Training with Montreal-based IPEX Group of Companies....
Read More >>Doug Ruthven’s was a professor of chemical engineering at the University of New Brunswick from 1966 to 1995 and at the University of Maine from 1995 to 2018. One of the leading pioneers in adsorption science and engineering, Ruthven passed away on September 23 at the age of 82.
Read More >>Pudupadi (Sundar) Sundararajan had an unrivalled knowledge of polymer chemistry, an impressive scientific pedigree and an unwavering commitment to helping students find free food.
Read More >>Leah Martin-Visscher is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at The King’s University, Edmonton and the 2021 winner of the Margaret-Ann Armour Award for Early Career Chemistry Education. Her research with undergraduates explores the use of bacteriophages and antimicrobial peptides for food preservation. CIC News recently asked Martin-Visscher to share some insights from the classroom.
Read More >>Mark Workentin, FCIC, is a professor of chemistry at Western University who is lauded for his entertaining and rigorous organic chemistry classes. He is a multi award-winning university teacher with honours including the OCUFA Excellence in Teaching Award and Western’s Pleva and Marilyn Robinson Awards. CIC NEWS recently asked Workentin to share some insights from his years behind the lectern. (Although he says he rarely stands at the lectern).
Read More >>In the early 1980s, China sent a select group of 100 graduate students to study abroad – the first to leave the country since the Cultural Revolution. Ninety-seven young men and three young women, including the late Suning Wang, FCIC, made that ground-breaking journey. A whip-smart,...
Read More >>The Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering’s (CSChE) Systems & Control Subject Division will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams at 3pm EST (noon PST) on November 5. Dial-in phone numbers are also available for audio participation. All division members or CSChE Stats & Control community adherents (i.e. you forgot to...
Read More >>What do you do at the CIC? Most of my time is devoted to the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, where I am the first point of contact for new content. I go through submissions and review them in detail, looking for things like formatting changes that might have to be done. Depending on what...
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