Radioactivité. Le terme peut alarmer, évoquant tout de suite des catastrophes comme celle de Tchernobyl. Or, des substances radioactives, appelées isotopes médicaux, sont utilisées chaque jour dans les hôpitaux pour faire de la radio-imagerie. Selon l’Agence internationale de l’énergie atomique, « 80% des examens d’imagerie médicale diagnostique effectués dans le monde font appel au molybdène-99 (99Mo)...
Read More >>From November 13th to 15th, I was able to attend the Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC) in Ottawa as a CIC News Correspondent. I didn’t know what to expect, but my interest grew as the program was revealed. There were two panels that addressed the topic of open access and open science which, as I learned,...
Read More >>What do you do at the CIC? I am the office’s Community Development Coordinator, which means I wear many different hats. Sometimes you will find me working with our members in student chapters, local sections, and subject divisions, where I am always trying to foster a strong sense of community. When our national conferences get...
Read More >>As if collecting the sap of maple trees and transforming it into syrup were not challenging enough, sugar bush operators can find all their hard work ruined in its final stages by an off-flavour that goes by the ironic name of “buddy”. Although the suspected cause is some organic constituent absorbed by sap as it makes its way through the inner recesses of the tree, this problem has remained unexplained and unpredictable.
Read More >>As we launch our 2020 CIC membership campaign, we are creating a conversation around what membership means and how being a CIC member can help you grow, learn, connect, and recognize in your development as a chemical sciences professional. To give you a sense of what we do at the CIC, here is an update on the exciting initiatives and dialogues we have had over the last year.
Read More >>What do you do at CIC? I am the Communications Coordinator. Among other things, I’m the one who assembles the bi-weekly newsletter that arrives in every member’s inbox. I also handle social media platforms, e-mail campaigns, and sponsorship for our two big conferences, CCCE and CCEC. How has your background led up to this work?...
Read More >>Several dozen chemists and their colleagues spent a couple of hours one Saturday this fall cleaning up a west end park in Toronto as part of what can only be described as a Green Chemistry grassroots movement. The group descended on Trinity Bellwoods, near Dundas and Ossington, where they picked up some 15 kg of...
Read More >>This year, at the 51st International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), 80 countries met in Paris, France from July 21-30, 2019...
Read More >>What does membership mean to you? Belonging, community, integration. These words reflect the essence of membership for the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) with members joining...
Read More >>The 12th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC 2020) will be held August 16-21, 2020 in Vancouver. The event will mark the latest stage in the growth and development of this active group since it was founded as the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists in 1982. First held...
Read More >>Among the highlights of the 69th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, which took place in October in Halifax, was a set of diverse presentations that made up the annual Emerging Leaders in Chemical Engineering plenary session. This prestigious event showcased the perspectives of four leading early-career researchers in 10-minute TED-Talk-style presentations. Each of them offered a vision of the...
Read More >>Students could be seen squirming in their seats while Shafiq Jaffer, MCIC, listed the world’s woes. As Vice-President of Corporate Science and Technology Projects in North America for the French energy giant TOTAL, his career has given him a front-row seat for some of the biggest challenges facing our civilization: climate change, finding energy sources...
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