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Top Canadian chemists were honoured at the annual Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) awards ceremony Feb. 17 at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

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Chemistry of Baking video takes the cake in YouTube contest

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The Chemical Institute of Canada’s (CIC) fourth annual “It’s Chemistry, Eh?!” YouTube contest for high school students saw Evangeline McLaren Devenyi, a Grade 12 student at Northern Secondary School in Toronto, take first place and a cash prize of $500 for her entry, The Chemistry of Baking.

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International Year of Soils

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The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2015 the International Year of Soils. The goal is to enhance awareness of the important role that soils play in human life, especially as populations increase and global demand for food and fuel rises.

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Mark Lautens, FCIC, of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto was named an Officerof the Order of Canada for his contributions to organic chemistry. Christophe Guy of...

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Creating crystals for cachet

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The Chemical Institute of Canada’s National Crystal Growing Competition is a popular annual contest that tests high school students’ ability to grow the best quality, largest and heaviest single crystal. Schools across Canada were provided with materials and instructions this past September and the blue crystals, made from copper (II) sulfate pentahydrate, were submitted for national judging in November.

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Mixer cultivates new connections

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| (L-R) Nazanin Mobrhan-Shafiee, Iain McKenzie, Madhvi Ramnial and John Canal networked after the BC Academic-Industry Mixer II presentation. The Chemical Institute of Canada’s Vancouver CIC Local Section, in partnership...

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