Canadian Chemical News articles from May 2006

Canadian Chemical News archives from May 2006

The CSC at your service: how can the CSC better serve its members and the public? The Society's work toward achieving professional and public credibility.(CHRONIQUEUR INVITE)(Canadian Society for Chemistry)(Column)
May 1, 2006... The March 2006 issue of ACCN addressed the future of chemistry as a discipline and a profession. Chemistry is under pressure. New evidence of this pressure comes from the closing of the department of chemistry at the University of Sussex in the...

The purpose of the Canadian Academies of Science (CAS) is to provide expert and independent assessments of science in the public interest.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The purpose of the Canadian Academies of Science (CAS) is to provide expert and independent assessments of science in the public interest. Peter Nicholson was recently appointed the first president of the CAS. Howard Alper, FCIC, chair of the...

Dow Chemical Canada Inc.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Jeff Johnston has been named president of Dow Chemical Canada Inc. and hydrocarbons business director for Canada. Johnston replaces outgoing Dow Canada president, Ramesh Ramachandran, who was recently named director of strategic planning and...

Todd Lowary.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Todd Lowary, MCIC, was one of six university professors to be awarded a 2006 NSERC Steacie Fellowship. The prize is awarded to outstanding Canadian university scientists or engineers who have obtained their doctorate within the last 12 years,...

Marty DeGroot.(University of Western Ontario )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Marty DeGroot, MCIC, has been selected winner of the 2005 Paul de Mayo Prize. Each year, the award is given to a recent PhD from the department of chemistry at The University of Western Ontario in recognition of achievement in research and...

Elizabeth Gillies.(joins The University of Western Ontario )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Elizabeth Gillies, MCIC, will join the department of chemistry at The University of Western Ontario as an assistant professor this summer. Her research interests are in organic, polymer, and biomaterials chemistry, and her work involves the...

Frank (Hein) Schaper.(University)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... L'Universite de Montreal est fiere d'annoncer la venue, il y a quelques mois, au departement de chimie, en qualite de professeur adjoint, de Frank (Hein) Schaper, MCIC. Schaper a recu son Ph.D. en chimie inorganique de la Universitat Konstanz...

Remodelling math.(designing of a model to control diffusion process)
May 1, 2006... Molecules can diffuse through all kinds of materials, but that diffusion is generally uncontrolled. The solution? Math. Chemists John Dutcher, ACIC, of the University of Guelph and Wankei Wan of The University of Western Ontario are working...

A "pore" excuse for engineering.(study by chemists at the University of Toronto describes a nanoscale material periodic mesoporous organosilica )
May 1, 2006... A new study by chemists and engineers at the University of Toronto describes a nanoscale material they've created that could help satisfy society's never-ending hunger for smaller digital devices and cell phones. It could even lead to new...

Prisma Plastics.(Plastique Alto, Plastique Polyfab, Redwood Plastics, and Warehoused Plastic Sales annoucnce formation of Prisma Plastics International)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Four major domestic plastic companies--Plastique Alto, Plastique Polyfab, Redwood Plastics, and Warehoused Plastic Sales--have announced the formation of Prisma Plastics International. This new strategic alliance provides the opportunity to...

NOVA Chemicals to implement MPI technology.(Nova Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Canada), Model Predictive Intelligence)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... NOVA Chemicals has selected Pavilion Technologies' Model Predictive Intelligence (MPI) technology as a key component of its manufacturing excellence program. The company-wide agreement is the result of a successful pilot at NOVA Chemicals'...

KPMG international cost study--Canada No. 1.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... KMPG has released the findings of its latest comparison of international business costs. This is a biennia] study that looks at the costs of establishing a new business in various countries around the world, and for various industry sectors...

Canada lags behind on renewable fuels.(Canadian Renewable Fuels Association releases new study )
May 1, 2006... The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association released a new study by the research firm FO Licht that shows Canada lags behind the world leaders in renewable fuels production and consumption. "This report should be a wake-up call for Canada," said...

Environment Canada requests data on hazardous substances.(Canada. Environment Canada)
May 1, 2006... Environment Canada published a notice on March 4, 2006 in the Canada Gazette, Part I, pursuant to paragraph 71(1) (a) and (b) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA 1999). The notice requires companies that manufactured or...

Manitoba launches ethanol fuel outlet.(Manitoba Mineral Resources Ltd.)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Government fleets in Manitoba will be filling up with lower emission ethanol fuel as a result of a joint program of the federal and provincial governments. The sustainable transportation project was recently launched to demonstrate the...

Panic in the pantry: a few thoughts on carcinogenicity.
May 1, 2006... Pop the bag into the microwave and in two minutes you can be stuffing handfuls of greasy popcorn into your mouth--along with a dose of perfluorochemicals. Consumers may be quite willing to put up with messy hands when they eat popcorn, but they...

Countering the hydrocarbon threat: sources and remediation of Canada's groundwater contamination.
May 1, 2006... Groundwater is an essential freshwater resource in Canada. It is defined as water that is stored in the interstitial spaces of soils and rock. Typically, groundwater flows at very slow rates on the order of cm/yr to m/yr but can provide useful...

The distant early warning line cleanup project: site remediation in Canada's North.
May 1, 2006... What is it like to work as an environmental scientist in a remote location? The Environmental Sciences Group (ESG), located at the Royal Military College in Kingston, ON, led by Ken Reimer, FCIC, continues to be involved in one of the most...

From the ground up: CCME seeks input on revisions to the National Classification System for Contaminated Sites and its Petroleum Hydrocarbons Canada-Wide Standard.(Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment)
May 1, 2006... The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) is a major intergovernmental forum in Canada for discussion and joint action on environmental issues of national and international concern. Comprised of environment ministers from the...

Think before you drink: antimony contamination from Arctic snow to bottled water.
May 1, 2006... What do bottled waters in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers and Arctic snow have in common? They are both contaminated with antimony (Sb), a potentially toxic heavy metal with no known physiological function. Michael Krachler of the...

Remediate attention: identifying the need for chemistry-based assessment in contaminated sites and their remediation.
May 1, 2006... What makes a site a contaminated site? You won't drive far along any busy highway these days before you come to a boarded up gas station lying derelict by the roadside. Likewise, every city has its "brownfield" district covered with...

Mirror, mirror on the floor--silver nanoparticles find application in adaptive optics.
May 1, 2006... Gazing at one's reflection in a lake has been a popular pastime for individuals from Narcissus to Bambi. To a scientist, of course, water seems an inferior surface to use as a mirror. Since the 1870s, mercury has been a preferred material for...

Clathrate hydrates--icy fuel thawed with antifreeze proteins.(American Chemical Society, National Research Council Canada report study to inhibit clathrate formation)
May 1, 2006... Clathrate hydrates are ice-like inclusion complexes between small, usually gaseous guests and crystalline water hosts. These complexes are most famous for the vast deposits of natural gas hydrate in marine sediments offshore on the continental...

PHAC, CME issue pandemic flu guidance.(Public Health Agency of Canada, Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters )
May 1, 2006... The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has launched a new Web-based resource on pandemic influenza giving a one-stop source of information on pandemic influenza and Canada's preparedness. Public information materials are also available for...

CEPA review.(Canada. Environmental Protection Act)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... In the Speech from the Throne, the government signalled its intention to begin a review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). The act has been in place since 1988, and when it was first implemented, it contained a sunset...

The CIC Fellows 2006.
May 1, 2006... The Fellowship of The Chemical Institute of Canada was created as a senior class of membership to recognize outstanding merit by those who have made, or who are clearly in the course of making, a sustained and major contribution to the science...

The Chemical Institute of Canada 2006 Award winners.(Awards list)
May 1, 2006... The Catalysis Award Le Prix de catalyse Sponsored by / Parraine par The Canadian Catalysis Foundation The Catalysis Award is presented biennially to an individual who, while residing in Canada, has made a distinguished contribution to...

2nd Annual Green Chemistry Award: McGill University hosted the 2nd Annual Green Chemistry Award ceremony in correlation with the Boehringer Ingelheim lecture series.(CIC BULLETIN ICC)
May 1, 2006... The Green Chemistry Award Medal and Certificate was presented to Jean M. Belanger, O.C., HFCIC, by C.J. Li, FCIC, chair of the Canadian Green Chemistry Network (CGCN), on February 28, 2006, at McGill University in Montreal, QC. The ceremony, in...

Upon receiving the Green Chemistry Award.(ethics of green chemistry and engineering, Jean M. Belanger)
May 1, 2006... The following is excerpted from the Green Chemistry Medal acceptance speech given by Jean M. Belanger, O.C., HFCIC, on February 28, 2006 to the Canadian Green Chemistry Network (CGCN). Suddenly, everyone is talking about ethics and ethical...

In memoriam.(Muhammad Fayed, Alex Henderson, Ronald Ironside, James W. MacLean and R. B. Stewart)(Obituary)
May 1, 2006... The CIC extends its condolences to the families of: Muhammad (Mo) Fayed, FCIC Alex Henderson, MCIC Ronald Ironside, FCIC James W. MacLean, MCIC R. B. Stewart, FCIC

Canadian Society for Chemistry 2006 Award winners.(CSC BULLETIN SCC)
May 1, 2006... The Alcan Award Le Prix Alcan Sponsored by / Parraine par Alcan International Limited The Alcan Award is presented to a scientist residing in Canada who has made a distinguished contribution in the field of inorganic chemistry or...

EIC Fellows 2005 and 2006.(Engineering Institute of Canada )
May 1, 2006... Each year since 1963, the council of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) has elected select engineers to their Fellowship. These engineers are recognized for their excellence in engineering and their services to the profession and to...

Chemical technology career forum.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... On March 9, 2006, 76 chemical technology students from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton attended a half-day career forum. This forum was organized by the chemical technology program to inform students about...

Western engineering students compete for cash prizes.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... "Diesel Desulfurization to Meet New Regulations" took one of four cash prizes at the Capstone Design Project Presentation and Competition held at The Research Park, Sarnia-Lambton Campus in Sarnia, ON. Adam Albeldawai, Farouk Dhanidina,...

Events/evenements.
May 1, 2006... Canada Conferences May 15-17, 2006. EnviroAnalysis 2006--Sixth Biennial Conference on Monitoring and Measurement of the Environment, Toronto, ON, www.enviroanalysis.ca May 25-27, 2006. College Chemistry Canada (C3),...

New element hits the chart.(Chemical Institute of Canada)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... OTTAWA -- Students in Audrey Pavelich's Grade 4A class at Crestwood School in Medicine Hat, AB, have discovered a new element, announced the organizers of The Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC)'s Public Understandin9 of Chemistry (PUC)"Name the...