Nomenclature101.com for Francophone students is an online tool developed at the University of Ottawa to fill in a significant learning gap caused by an inability to interpret and use the language of organic chemistry. Students should be able to name and draw simple molecules,
Read More >>The legend of Harry Potter apparated in real life into the Waterloo Summit Centre for the Environment (WSCE) in Huntsville, Ont. on April 29-30. The event was the first annual Harry Potter - Science and Magic! outreach program, organized by Brock..
Read More >>Vancouver delivered mountain ranges, sunshine and ocean breezes as the picturesque complement to the 97th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition...
Read More >>On May 11, the faculties of Science and Applied Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby, British Columbia joined with the Vancouver Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada to celebrate a day of science and astronomy at Science...
Read More >>Athabasca University professor Dietmar Kennepohl explains some of the surprising chemistry behind the pairing of wine and cheese. Photo credit: Lucio Gelmini About 100 people attended the annual Café CIC public lecture...
Read More >>This year, Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) Chair David Fung has made it his mission to visit as many of the local sections as possible during his term. To date,...
Read More >>The Chemical Institute of Canada Toronto Local Section hosted a Brewery Tour and Sponsor Appreciation Night last December at the Mill Street Brew Hall in the city’s historic Distillery District....
Read More >>The Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) and Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) have announced the award winners for 2014. Official presentations take place at the 97th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Vancouver, June 1-5 and the 64th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Niagara Falls, Ont., Oct. 19–22. Details about the winners’ research are available at www.cheminst.ca/awards.
Read More >>This year’s winner of the 2014 Chemical Institute of Canada medal is Douglas W. Stephan, FCIC, of the University of Toronto. Stephan’s research targets innovative new technologies for the efficient production of desirable chemical products. His group develops new transition metal-based catalysts for hydrogenation, polymerization
Read More >>The highest honour that can be bestowed upon Queen’s University grads — the Alumni Achievement Award — will be presented to philanthropist couple, chemist Alfred Bader, HFCIC, and his wife....
Read More >>Mark Cronin-Golomb, a visiting professor at McGill University’s Fonds de recherché Nature et technologies (FQRNT) Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS)...
Read More >>Geoff Rayner-Canham, FCIC, of Memorial University and Tina Overton of the University of Hull, United Kingdom, authored the newly published Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry, 6th edition. The textbook includes a correlation of...
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