Canadian Chemical News articles from November 2008

Canadian Chemical News archives from November 2008

The importance of biotechnology.(GUEST COLUMN/CHRONIQUEUR INVITE)
November 1, 2008... Canadians' support of biotechnology, and their recognition of the technology's ability to help answer some of the most pressing challenges facing the world, is strong. After years of working toward greater acceptance of the technology, recent...

Importance of association.(LETTERS/LETTRES)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2008... DEAR EDITOR, I'm glad that some discussion has been started in the area of professional associations. A point that I was trying to make is that there should have been one Canadian professional association of Chemists and not a...

Genetic mutation responsible for Labrador retriever ailment.(NEWS/NOUVELLES)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A genetic mutation responsible for exercise induced collapse (EIC) syndrome in Labrador retriever dogs has been identified by a research team from the University of Saskatchewan's Western College of Veterinary...

Dow Chemical received award for GreenChill contribution.(NEWS/NOUVELLES)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dow Chemical has received an award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its support of the GreenChill program. GreenChill is an alliance of grocery stores and the refrigeration industry which is intended...

German chemo-technical manufacturer opens headquarters in Kitchener.(NEWS/NOUVELLES)(Weicon Inc. )(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Weicon Inc. has opened up its North American headquarters in Kitchener, ON. Weicon is a German manufacturer and distributor of chemo-technical products and specialty tools. This is Weicon's second international office. It currently runs a...

QuestAir and Terasen Gas partner for clean energy.(NEWS/NOUVELLES)
November 1, 2008... QuestAir Technologies Inc., a developer of proprietary gas purification systems, and Terasen Gas Inc., a supplier of natural gas and propane will be working jointly on projects to produce supplies of biomethane from organic waste. This dean...

Ontario's plan paying off.(NEWS/NOUVELLES)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ontario's Innovation Agenda was set up to attract world-class talent to the province and make it the best place in the world to conduct leading-edge research. The initial commitment from the province was to invest $3...

iCo Therapeutics provides results.(NEWS/NOUVELLES)
November 1, 2008... iCo Therapeutics Inc., a Vancouver-based company focused on redosing or reformulating drugs with clinical history for new or expanded indications, announced a series of positive experiments involving the systemic bioavalibility of amphotericin...

Chemtrade plant to open late 2008.(NEWS/NOUVELLES)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund, which provides industrial chemicals and services to customers around the world, announced that its regen/sulphuric acid plant in Beaumont, TX, can expect to be back online by late 2008. The plant was recently...

Ontario government supporting alternative energy research.(NEWS/NOUVELLES)
November 1, 2008... The government of Ontario has invested approximately $5 million to support research in the cleantech sector. Cleantech is a sector which focuses on environmental solutions with economic potential Two projects that will be receiving funding...

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded.(NEWS/NOUVELLES)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded jointly to three chemists "for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein, GFP." The three chemists receiving the award are Osamu Shimomura of the...

DuPont Co.(INDUSTRIAL Briefs)
November 1, 2008... DuPont Co. has named Ellen Kullman its chief executive officer. Kullman, 52, will take over January 1 from Charles Holliday who is retiring after 10 years with DuPont. Kullman has been responsible for four of DuPont's five segments and has been...

Canaire Inc.(INDUSTRIAL Briefs)(appointment of Guy Bujold )(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Canaire Inc. announces the appointment of Guy Bujold as its president and chief executive officer, effective October 1, 2008. Bujold's career includes many senior executive positions in the Government of Canada, among them, the president of the...

iCo Therapeutics Inc.(INDUSTRIAL Briefs)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... iCo Therapeutics Inc. reports interim results from its ongoing iCo-007 clinical trial. The Phase 1, open-label, dose escalation study is evaluating the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of a single intravitreal injection of iCo-007 in...

Ferus Inc.(INDUSTRIAL Briefs)
November 1, 2008... Ferus Inc. a company providing a dedicated supply of cryogenic fluids as well as the logistical services to deliver those products, announced that it is building a state-of-the-art carbon dioxide liquefaction plant in Fort Saskatchewan, AB. The...

Labtronics Inc.(INDUSTRIAL Briefs)
November 1, 2008... Labtronics Inc. announced the release of Nexxis SDK, a software development kit that supports third party applications with Nexxis Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) for routine analyses. This will simplify the process of integration between...

Engineering Institute of Canada.(INDUSTRIAL Briefs)
November 1, 2008... Marc A. Rosen has been appointed president of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). Rosen served as founding dean of UOIT's Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science from 2002-2008. He was EIC president-elect from 2006-2008 and was a...

Ontario Centre for Engineering and Public Policy.(INDUSTRIAL Briefs)(appointment of Donald Wallace )(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Donald Wallace has been named the executive director of the new Ontario Centre for Engineering and Public Policy. The creation of the centre was approved by the Professional Engineers Ontario council in June 2008 to better serve and protect the...

Enerkem Inc.(INDUSTRIAL Briefs)
November 1, 2008... Enerkem Inc. has announced the appointment of two new vice-presidents. Denis Arguin, has been appointed vice-president, engineering and implementation. He was director of process technology at Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTI) in Pennsylvania....

Caution: cosmetics.(CHEMFUSION)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cosmetics are under attack. It's not the first time. Back in 1770, the English Parliament passed an act declaring that marriages could be pronounced null and void if the man had been "led into matrimony by false...

Small but mighty: microbial communities and a 'second wave' of genomics.
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Microbial World Since the 19th century, a great deal of effort in microbiology has been invested in assessing the identity and function of single-celled organisms. Laboratory experiments have revealed the...

Q & A with Christopher J. Wilds, MCIC: Canada research chair in biological chemistry.(Q&A)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... ACCN recently had a chance to talk with Christopher J. Wilds, MCIC, Canada Research Chair in biological chemistry at Concordia University. Wilds' work involves the modifying of DNA to increase the effectiveness of chemotherapeutics in patients...

Saskatchewan: growing beyond agricultural roots.
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To an outside observer, it may seem Saskatchewan has virtually rocketed from the status of a 'have not' province to one of the most vibrant economies in the country. How did a humble, agriculture province rise to...

Photonics: a bright partnership between chemistry and physics.
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Interest and activities in photonics world wide have exploded over the last decade because of its commercial potential, and because of the synergy it inspires between the chemistry and physics communities. Loosely...

Environment Canada considers banning silicones in Canada: cyclic silicones out the door.
November 1, 2008... The Government of Canada is in the process of virtually eliminating cyclic silicones, among other chemical substances. The Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) felt it was important to present its position regarding the government's decision...

Tristram Chivers.(RECOGNITION/RECONNAISSANCE)
November 1, 2008... Tristram Chivers, FCIC, faculty professor and professor emeritus at the University of Calgary has been awarded the ASTech Foundation's Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Science Award. His research benefits Alberta's sour gas and petrochemical...

Royal Society of Canada.(RECOGNITION/RECONNAISSANCE)
November 1, 2008... Wolfgang Jaeger, MCIC of the University of Alberta was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Jaeger has made important contributions to the knowledge of the bond, also known as van der Waals force, between molecules and/or atoms....

Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada.(RECOGNITION/RECONNAISSANCE)
November 1, 2008... Molly Shoichet, MCIC, University of Toronto, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, has been elected to the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada. Election to Fellowship in the Society is the highest academic...

Judith Poe.(RECOGNITION/RECONNAISSANCE)(award for Judith Poe)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Judith Poe, FCIC, of the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto at Mississauga has been awarded two prestigious teaching awards. She is one of the recipients of this year's Presidential Teaching Awards; the...

Janusz Pawliszyn.(RECOGNITION/RECONNAISSANCE)
November 1, 2008... Janusz Pawliszyn, FCIC, has won the 2008 EnCana Principal Award from the Manning Innovation Awards. The award comes with a prize of $100,000. Pawliszyn won the award for his innovations in solid-phase microextraction (SPME), an environmentally...

In memoriam.(RECOGNITION/RECONNAISSANCE)(Obituary)
November 1, 2008... The CIC extends its condolences to the families of: Mark T. Fryer, MCIC Donald John Engel, MCIC F. H. Griffiths, MCIC

CSC Board of Directors nominations (2009-2010)/nominations pour le conseil de direction de la SCC (2009-2010).(RECOGNITION/RECONNAISSANCE)
November 1, 2008... The Nominating Committee, appointed under the terms of CSC By-law Article X-Nominations and Elections, has proposed the candidates listed below for election to the Board of Directors in 2009-2010. According to the provision of By-law Article X,...

Materials Science and Engineering Division Undergraduate Thesis Awards (2007-2008).(RECOGNITION/RECONNAISSANCE)
November 1, 2008... The CSC MSED Undergraduate Thesis Award is given to the student whose thesis describes a project in the field of polymer science and engineering. The student must have made significant and original contributions to the research and the thesis...

Student Chapter Merit Award winners (2008)/Les gagnants des prix du Merite des sections etudiantes (2008).(RECOGNITION/RECONNAISSANCE)(award)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... The Student Chapter Merit Awards are offered as a means of recognizing and encouraging initiative and originality in Student Chapter programming in the areas of chemistry, chemical engineering and chemical technology. Awards are given out in...

Alfred Bader scholarships (2008)/Bourses Alfred-Bader (2008).(RECOGNITION/RECONNAISSANCE)
November 1, 2008... A mark of excellence for achievement in organic chemistry or biochemistry by undergraduate students completing their final year of study in an honours program. BOURSES ALFRED-BADER (2008) Pour souligner l'excellence des realisations en...

Society of Chemical Industry awards.(RECOGNITION/RECONNAISSANCE)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Canada Medal During a successful career in the chemical industry including 25 years with Dow and over 16 years as vice-president, Responsible Care[R], for the Canadian Chemical Producers' Association, CCPA,...

Events/Evenements.(Calendar)
November 1, 2008... Conferences May 26-29, 2009. 2nd Georgian Bay International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry (CanBIC-2009) Parry Sound, ON, www.canbic.ca. May 30-June 5, 2009. 92nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Hamilton, ON,...