Pandemic pedagogy
EDUCATION
We live in an age of disruption. The sharing economy has likely changed your behaviour around booking hotels, riding in taxis, or ordering food. These massive transformations have been made...
Read More >>Challenging complex problems with complex research
CHEMISTRY FOR ENERGY & THE ENVIRONMENT
In February, Phil De Luna, who directs the National Research Council of Canada’s (NRC) new Materials for Clean Fuels Challenge Program, attended Globe 2020, a business and innovation event dedicated...
Read More >>Debating the current and future state of science communication
CAREERS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
As the ranks of the world’s professional journalists have been decimated over the past few decades, so too has their ability to report the work of science to an audience...
Read More >>Commonwealth Chemistry struts its stuff
CONFERENCES
Chemists from around the commonwealth will be converging on Trinidad and Tobago this spring for the inaugural Commonwealth Chemistry Congress from 18-21 May 2020. The event is being organised by...
Read More >>Open access proves to be as challenging as any scientific problem
EDUCATION
While attending the Canadian Science Policy Conference for CIC last fall, I was introduced to cOAlition S, a European-based open-access publishing initiative that is spearheading a project called Plan S....
Read More >>Meet the National Office team: Krista Leroux
CIC MEMBERS
What do you do at the CIC? I am the CIC’s graphic designer and webmaster. What does a graphic designer do? Well, we make things look fabulous! We do this...
Read More >>Life in chemistry, as told by those living it
CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Few things can change a student’s mind like hearing the voice of experience, especially if the speaker is being brutally honest. For his part, Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie did just...
Read More >>Meet the National Office team: Keith Lapierre
CIC MEMBERS
What do you do at the CIC? I am CIC’s conference program coordinator. As such, I work cohesively (and constantly!) with the conference organizing committees from the Canadian Chemistry Conference...
Read More >>Sampling the Salt Lake smog
CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH
For all of the majestic, mountain-ringed landscape that Utah’s Great Salt Lake region embodies, local residents can encounter a threat to their health each winter as the atmosphere succumbs to...
Read More >>Supporting Women in the Chemical Sciences
CHEMISTRY FOR SOCIETY
The CIC is celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science (February 11th)! We know that many of you in the Canadian chemical sciences community will be hosting or...
Read More >>It’s not hard being green
CHEMISTRY FOR ENERGY & THE ENVIRONMENT
According to Andy Dicks, a Teaching Stream Professor at the University of Toronto, being green isn’t difficult. It’s being smart. Green chemistry is cheaper, principally from the perspective of environmental...
Read More >>Taking a hard look at safety culture in academic laboratories
CHEMISTRY FOR SOCIETY
The celebrated 19th-century German chemist Justus von Liebig famously advised his protegé Augustus Kekulé that it was necessary to ruin one’s health in order to succeed in chemistry. Liebig could...
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