Canadian Chemical News articles from January 2001

Canadian Chemical News archives from January 2001

National Facilities.
January 1, 2001... Tristram Chivers The Canadian Light Source and the Canadian Neutron Facility will allow Canada to be a major player in materials research. The increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary research to undertake problems of national and...

PERSONALS.
January 1, 2001... Industry Julia L. Aktik has recently been named as director of quality assurance of Andromed in Montreal, QC. Andromed is a high-tech medical device company, offering significant technological expertise in highly sophisticated medical...

Obituary.
January 1, 2001... Norm Graham, MCIC, another Canadian nuclear pioneer, passed away on November 9, 2000. Born into a farming family near Barrie, ON, he was a graduate of the University of Toronto with a Master's degree in analytical chemistry. He joined...

Howard Alper First Winner of New NSERC Herzberg Medal.
January 1, 2001... Tom Brzustowski, president of NSERC, has announced that the University of Ottawa's Howard Alper, FCIC, is the first winner of the prestigious new Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. The award was presented on...

Union Carbide Celebrates 15-Year Workplace Safety Milestone.
January 1, 2001... The employees at Union Carbide Canada Inc.'s Prentiss Plant celebrated 15 years without a disabling or lost workday injury on October 15, 2000. Union Carbide employs 310 full-time employees at the site and, on October 11, 2000, started...

CFI Announces $6.5 M To Launch Careers of Researchers.
January 1, 2001... David Strangway, president and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced an investment of $6.5 million to provide world-class research facilities for 52 new faculty at Canadian universities. "The CFI investment is...

New Outreach Support for Researchers and Businesses.
January 1, 2001... Using existing funding mechanisms, NSERC and the National Research Council's Industrial. Research Assistance Program (IRAP) have created a new funding initiative for Canadian researchers and small and medium-sized enterprises to stimulate...

Petro-Canada Cuts Emissions Below 1990 Level.
January 1, 2001... Through voluntary action, Petro-Canada reduced its total 1999 greenhouse gas emissions to 4% below the total in 1990, despite a 39% increase in production over the period. The data is contained in the company's annual progress report on...

MMO and Stuart Energy Sign Licence Agreement.
January 1, 2001... Materials and Manufacturing Ontario's investment in professors Steven Thorpe and Donald Kirk, MCIC, at the University of Toronto is now reaping benefits. The researchers and MMO have recently signed a licensing agreement with Stuart Energy to...

Albchern To Build New Chlorate Plant in Manitoba.
January 1, 2001... A recent announcement by Albchem Industries is a good indication that sodium chlorate markets have recovered. The company said that it will build a new plant new Virden, MB. The facility will be the first grassroots plant built in Canada in...

Waste from Office Copiers arid Printers Strengthen Asphalt.
January 1, 2001... Adding waste toner to make highway asphalt more durable earned two University of Texas at Austin engineers a place on the Texas Department of Transportation list of Top 10 Research Findings or Innovations for 2000. Thomas Kennedy,...

Help! Au Secours! My Hard Disk is Full.
January 1, 2001... This month, Silbert reviews Partition Magic. I've just loaded Windows ME on my system. It has a wonderful new feature called Restore to save us when we must face that most-horrible situation when we have just loaded a new program and it...

Booting Into Other Operating Systems.
January 1, 2001... Walker reviews BootMagic, part of the PartitionMagic package. Bundled with Partition magic is BootMagic, a boot manager that allows you to install and operate multiple operating systems within separate partitions of the hard drive. The...

The Cure for All Cancers.
January 1, 2001... The freedom of speech. One of our most sacred rights. Men and women are willing to die for it. Unfortunately, they also die because of it. Let me elaborate. Our word cancer derives from the Latin word for crab. This is understandable, as...

Celebrating Canada's National Facilities.
January 1, 2001... The president of the NRC looks at the value of national research and development facilities for materials research. The National Research Council plays a leading role in the development of an innovative knowledge-based economy in Canada...

The Canadian Neutron Facility.
January 1, 2001... A world-class, multi-purpose laboratory that will allow Canadian researchers to show off their expertise. It is recognized worldwide that neutron beam experiments provide key information that is essential for the development of advanced...

The Canadian Light Source: Progress and Prospects.
January 1, 2001... The Canadian Light Source (CLS), the national synchrotron facility, is currently under construction on the edge of the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon, SK (see Figure 1). Beginning in 2004, approximately 30 very intense beams of...

Evaluating Intellectual Capital - Part I.
January 1, 2001... C.W. (Clem) Bowman, FCIC Abstract Intangible assets in general, and intellectual capital specifically, are now recognized to be at least as important as tangible assets for most organizations. Intellectual capital is not simply the...

Polymers That Conduct Electricity.
January 1, 2001... Twenty years of progress led to the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A as recently reported in this magazine, there is hardly an aspect of our lives that is not touched by synthetic polymers [1]. In the field of optics and electronics, these...

INSTITUTE & SOCIETY ACTIVITIES.
January 1, 2001... CIC Bulletin ICC Garry Rempel Wins Award The Catalysis Award Sponsored by / Parraine par The Canadian Catalysis Foundation The Catalysis Award is presented biennially to an individual who, while resident in Canada, has mode a...