Canadian Chemical News articles from April 2006

Canadian Chemical News archives from April 2006

Innovation for all: the discovery of new medicines has far-reaching benefits.(GUEST COLUMN / CHRONIQUEUR INVITE)
April 1, 2006... The Wright brothers' historic maiden flight lasted only 12 seconds and travelled 120 feet. Of course, aeronautic research didn't end there. There have been hundreds if not thousands of incremental advances, and now jet travel and transatlantic...

Jean Belanger.(Industry)(Canadian Green Chemistry Medal)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The Canadian Green Chemistry Medal recognizes the outstanding contributions of an individual to the promotion and development of green chemistry internationally as well as in Canada. Jean Belanger, OC, HFCIC, received the award for 2005 on...

Ding-Yu Peng.(Industry)(Donald L. Katz Award)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Ding-Yu Peng, FCIC, of the University of Saskatchewan's department of chemical engineering has been named the 2006 recipient of the Donald L. Katz Award by the Gas Processors Association. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in gas...

Dow Chemical Company.(Industry)(appointment of Jeff Wooster )(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The Dow Chemical Company has named Jeff Wooster to the position of senior value chain manager, food and specialty packaging for plastics. Wooster is widely recognized in the food industry for his contributions to the development of new...

King's University College.(University)(appointment of Peter Mahaffy)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The King's University College in Edmonton, AB, is pleased to announce that Peter Mahaffy, FCIC, professor of chemistry, has been appointed as the new chair (2006-2009) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Committee...

Suzanne Fortier, FCIC, president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) awarded the 2005 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering to David Dolphin, FCIC.(Government)(2005 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Suzanne Fortier, FCIC, president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) awarded the 2005 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering to David Dolphin, FCIC. The prize is widely recognized as the...

Twenty-one outstanding Canadian researchers have been awarded a total of more than $1.5 million in the 39th annual competition for Killam Research Fellowships, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.(Government)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Twenty-one outstanding Canadian researchers have been awarded a total of more than $1.5 million in the 39th annual competition for Killam Research Fellowships, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. Among Canada's most distinguished...

Thomas Hu.(Distinction)(Paprican Douglas Atack Award for Best Mechanical Pulping Paper)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Thomas Hu, MCIC, and his co-author from The University of British Columbia, won the Paprican Douglas Atack Award for Best Mechanical Pulping Paper. Their winning paper was entitled, "A New Class of Bleaching Agents for Mechanical Pulps."

Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences.(Distinction)
April 1, 2006... Mary Anne White, FCIC, of Dalhousie University has been appointed to the Advisory Board for the NRC's Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences in Ottawa, ON.

Flipping the molecular switch.
April 1, 2006... Biosensors--tiny devices that can detect biological molecules--built with specially engineered DNA strands may one day advance scientists' ability to detect a wide variety of unwanted components, including metabolites, toxins, and food...

Canada's first private Brownfields fund launched.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... A $100 million private equity venture has been dedicated to cleaning up contaminated real estate. The Kilmer Brownfield Equity Fund is Canada's first brownfield fund, courtesy of Kenneth Tanenbaum, whose family has been involved in Canadian...

A checkup for chocolate.(Advanced Food and Materials Network )(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Advanced Food and Materials Network (ADMNet) researchers at the University of New Brunswick's MRI Centre and University of Guelph food science professor Alejandro Marangoni are using MRI in a non-medical use to study the structure of chocolate...

Canada's most powerful NMR spectrometer.(Nuclear Magnetic Resonance)
April 1, 2006... Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is widely used in chemistry for structural analysis. Performance of NMR spectrometers greatly depends on homogeneity and strength of the magnetic field. The early NMR spectrometers operated at...

Canada to build new nuclear reactors ahead of U.S.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... New nuclear reactors will likely be started in Canada before the U.S., according to Patrick Tighe, vice-president markets and business development at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL). Tighe told the Platt's energy conference in Washington...

CPI plant start-ups strong for 2006.(chemical processing industry)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Plans are in the works for the start-up of 33 grassroots plants in the chemical processing industry (CPI) in the U.S. and Canada during 2006. This will be an increase of 18 percent over the reported start-ups in 2005, according to research by...

Partnership in pulp and paper research.(Paprican, the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada and IPEF, the Institute of Forest Research and Studies of Brazil partnership)
April 1, 2006... Paprican, the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada, and IPEF, the Institute of Forest Research and Studies of Brazil, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to build a partnership in pulp and paper research. The purpose of this MOU...

L'Ordre des chimistes du Quebec choisit l'UQAM.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... L'Universite du Quebec a Montreal (L'UQAM) et l'Ordre des chimistes du Quebec ont signe un premier protocole d'entente visant le developpement de la strategie de formation continue des membres de l'Ordre. Cet evenement s'est deroule en...

Performance of the Chemical industry in 2005.
April 1, 2006... Year-end data for 2005 is now available from Statistics Canada. The data below relates to shipments, imports, and exports expressed in dollar values. Dollar value data for selected chemical industry groupings are shown. More detailed data can...

Dow signs global charter and endorses ICCA.(International Council of Chemical Associations)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The Dow Chemical Company recently recommitted its support to Responsible Care[TM] when Dow's president, CEO, and chair-elect signed the Responsible Care global charter, a document that considers the evolving challenges for the chemical...

CFI earns national governance award.(Canada Foundation for Innovation)(Conference Board of Canada/Spencer Stuart 2006 National Awards)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has won the prestigious Conference Board of Canada/Spencer Stuart 2006 National Awards in governance in the Public Sector category. These awards celebrate bold and innovative solutions to governance...

Antibiotic resistance.(CHEMFUSION)(Column)
April 1, 2006... By and large, drugs don't cure disease. They may lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, alleviate pain, restore hormone levels, of help control diabetes, but they don't solve the underlying problem. Except for antibiotics! If the diagnosis...

New drug discovery--beyond the bench-top.(Patent protection)(Column)
April 1, 2006... New drug discovery does not stop at the laboratory bench. Although basic research may discover thousands of potentially useful medicinal compounds, very few compounds actually make it to market. According to the results of studies published in...

Othomolecular medicine: could medicinal chemistry be applied in an unconventional way to ease the suffering of schizophrenics?(Column)
April 1, 2006... There was no successful treatment for schizophrenia in 1950. An admission to any mental hospital in Canada was a life sentence, with no time off for good behaviour. I was director of Psychiatric Research in Saskatchewan, where we had about...

Mimicking a good gene defect: drug therapy designed to make quitting smoking easier.(Editorial)
April 1, 2006... You're a smoker, but your partner isn't and never has bee. Why? And why is it so hard for you to quit when your friend did it without as much trouble? Some of it probably has to do with CYP2A6. When nicotine from a cigarette enters the...

Throwing the wrench with perfect aim: Annick Gauthier has a passion for disease biochemistry.(Biography)
April 1, 2006... As a child growing up in the small town of Pincourt, QC, Annick Gauthier knew two forces would guide her life--she was fascinated by how the body works, particularly diseases, and she wanted to help people. At first she thought she'd be a...

The economic impact of a flu pandemic: H5N1 concerns hold wide-ranging implications--and a surprising number of opportunities.(Column)
April 1, 2006... It is impossible these days to open a newspaper or magazine without seeing a story about the arrival of avian flu in a new country, or reports of additional outbreaks in chickens or another human death due to the organism. As the current strain...

Where light and matter meet: have you considered the seemingly endless applications of photochemistry?(Column)
April 1, 2006... Photochemistry as a chemical process has pretty much been around since the first photons were emitted in the universe, light triggered chemical reactions being the source of life on Earth. A systematic study of photochemical reactions started...

NRCan regulation of explosive precursors.(And in REGULATORY NEWS ...)(Natural Resources Canada Explosive Regulatory Division)
April 1, 2006... Natural Resources Canada Explosive Regulatory Division (NRCan-ERD) is developing new regulations to address security concerns related to access to "restricted components" (i.e., explosive precursor chemicals), which currently include: *...

EC proposed regulatory provisions for the export and import of non-hazardous waste.(And in REGULATORY NEWS ...)
April 1, 2006... Environment Canada will be drafting proposed regulatory provisions for the export and import of non-hazardous waste. The provisions are intended to protect Canada's environment and the health of Canadians from potential risks posed by the...

In memoriam.(CIC BULLETIN ICC)(Obituary)
April 1, 2006... The CIC extends its condolences to the families of: William A. (Bill) Ayer, FCIC, FRCS, passed away in his sleep on December 2, 2005, at the University of Alberta Hospital. He was born in Middle Sackville, NB, on July 1, 1932 and obtained...

Funding Chemical Education.(CIC BULLETIN ICC)(Chemical Education Fund)
April 1, 2006... The CIC Chemical Education Fund (CEF) is made available from individual member donations and from earnings on trust fund balances accumulated from the generous contributions of the chemical industry over many years. The fund's objective is to...

CSC board nomination.(CSC BULLETIN SCC)(Canadian Society for Chemistry)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... At its November 17, 2005 meeting, the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) board of directors unanimously approved John McIntosh, FCIC, emeritus professor at the University of Windsor, as a nominee to serve for a second three-year term as...

CNC/IUPAC Travel Awards/ Bourses de voyage du CNC/UICPA.(CSC BULLETIN SCC)
April 1, 2006... The Canadian National Committee for IUPAC (CNC/IUPAC) established a program of Travel Awards for young Canadian scientists in 1982. These awards are financed jointly by the Canadian Society for Chemistry's Gendron Fund and by CNC/IUPAC's...

Winners for 2006.(CSC BULLETIN SCC)(Member of the Chemical Institute of Canada)
April 1, 2006... Garry Hanan, MCIC, received his BSc from the University of Winnipeg in 1989 and worked under the supervision of Steve Loeb on ditopic receptors for metal ions. After a year as an exchange student at Auckland University, New Zealand, he returned...

55th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference student Program sponsors.(CSChE BULLETIN SCGCh)
April 1, 2006... Thanks for making it great! The following organizations helped make the CSChE 2005 Conference Student Program a success: Acqua Ristorante e Bar Alice Fazoolis BM0 Financial Group CIC Chemical Education Fund / Fonds pour...

Report of the President Canadian Society for Chemical Technology.(CSCT BULLETIN SCTC)
April 1, 2006... The CSCT ended 2005 on a high note, with increased membership and a healthy financial surplus. Membership at the end of 2005 showed more full-fee memberships than the previous year. Governance and finances The CSCT is on a more sound...

Ottawa local section.(LOCAL SECTION NEWS / NOUVELLES DES SECTIONS LOCALES)
April 1, 2006... Annual General Meeting and Dinner Assemblee annuelle et souper May 10 mai 2006 18:00-22:00 Algonquin College, Woodroffe Campus, Building D edifice D, Algonquin College campus Woodroffe With a special presentation from / Avec une...

Edmonton CIC events.(LOCAL SECTION NEWS / NOUVELLES DES SECTIONS LOCALES)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... David Schinder will be the speaker at the Edmonton CIC's next dinner/lecture event. It will take place at the Faculty Club, University of Alberta, on May 17, 2006. For more information, contact Lucio Gemini at GelminiL@macewan.ca.

Silver medalists honoured.(STUDENT NEWS / NOUVELLES DES ETUDIANTS)
April 1, 2006... The CIC is proud to announce the 2005 Silver Medal winners. The medals are awarded on behalf of each society. CSC Silver Medal Winners The CSC encourages undergraduate students in chemistry and related subjects by offering an award to...

Events/evenements.(Calendar)
April 1, 2006... Canada Conferences May 9-12, 2006. Climate Change Conference, Ottawa, ON, www.ccc2006.ca May 15-17, 2006. EnviroAnalysis 2006--Sixth Biennial Conference on Monitoring and Measurement of the Environment, Toronto, ON,...