Canadian Chemical News articles from October 2003

Canadian Chemical News archives from October 2003

Hot off the press: CIC introduces new book and course on laboratory health and safety.(Guest Column)
October 1, 2003... "We all share responsibility for safe and ethical research, chemical processing and analysis." The chemical field and profession are built on a foundation of trust with society. An integral part of that trust is the safe operation of...

Jeff Dahn, David Jakeman, and Alison Thompson, MCIC, have received grants from the Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Trust (NSRIT) Fund.(Government)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Jeff Dahn, David Jakeman, and Alison Thompson, MCIC, have received grants from the Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Trust (NSRIT) Fund. Established by the provincial government in 2001, the NSRIT matches funding from the Canada Foundation...

Donald Arnold.(Industry)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... The Canadian Journal of Chemistry has published an issue (Volume 81, Number 6, June 2003) dedicated to Donald Arnold, FCIC, for his contributions to chemistry. The significance is marked by the fact that only two such honorary issues are...

Doug MacLaren.(Industry)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Doug MacLaren, MCIC successfully defended his PhD defence entitled, 'Investigations of Reversible Thermochromic Mixtures' at Dalhousie University and is beginning a research position at Imperial Oil Sarnia this fall.

C. Geraldine Bazuin.(University)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... L'Universite de Montreal est fiere d'annoncer la venue du Pr. C. Geraldine Bazuin, FICC, au Departement de chimie. Bazuin a obtenu son PhD de l'Universite McGill sous la direction du Pr. Adi Eisenberg en 1984 et a effectue des etudes...

Robert Emery Prud'homme.(University)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... L'Universite de Montreal est fiere d'annoncer la nomination du Pr. Robert Emery Prud'homme, FICC, comme directeur du Departement de chimie. Prud'homme a recu son PhD de la University of Massachusetts (Amherst) sous la direction du Pr. Richard...

Margaret-Ann Armour.(Distinction)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Margaret-Ann Armour, FCIC, of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, BC was awarded the ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences. The award was sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. and will be...

Maarten Postema.(Distinction)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Maarten Postema was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the ACS Carbohydrate Division.

Rene Roy.(Distinction)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Rene Roy, won the Melville L. Wolfrom Award from the Carbohydrate Division of the ACS.

Obituaries.(Personals)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 1, 2003... Baderuddin K. Afghan, FCIC Robert David Charbonneau, MCIC W.E. Johnson, MCIC William Kozicki, FCIC Arthur Labrie, FCIC Maurice Youssef, MCIC Everett Percival Linton, FCIC, passed away on August 14, 2003 at age 96. A...

Environmental emergency regulations.
October 1, 2003... On September 10, 2003 Environment Canada announced new regulations requiring commercial and industrial facilities who own or control listed dangerous substances above the specified threshold quantities to prepare and implement environmental...

Imports of hazardous wastes decline--again!(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... The movement of hazardous waste in and out of Canada declined for the third consecutive year. Imports of hazardous wastes and hazardous recyclable material totaled 423,067 tonnes, down from 500,000 tonnes for the previous year. Imports of...

Canada's first [H.sub.2]O occupational standards.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... The Canadian Council for Human Resources in the Environment Industry (CCHREI) is developing Canada's first national occupational standards for water and wastewater operators. Funded by Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), CCHREI has begun...

CPR's Chemical Shipper Safety Awards.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) announced that 17 chemical shippers in Canada and the U.S. have been awarded the railway's Chemical Shipper Safety Award for their outstanding safety performance in 2002. The award is presented to businesses that...

New rules for transporting dangerous goods.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... The Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG) Clear Language regulations have come into force. The regulations can be viewed at www.tc.gc.ca/tdg/clear/tofc.htm. Transport Canada also has a telephone hotline for those TDG Clear Language regulation...

Online chemistry database.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has launched an online chemistry database called Science IP. It proposes to meet the needs of information professionals and others in the patenting and research and development communities who do not presently...

Safety in numbers.(Chemputing)
October 1, 2003... With the new global positioning gadgets, we can pinpoint any location on earth within a few metres, but what happens in the real world when others try to find us? You worked late and decided to order in a pizza. You cracked open a cool one in...

Fish odour syndrome.(Chemfusion)
October 1, 2003... What an awful, putrid odour it was! The physician had never smelled anything like it. In the small examination room the stench coming from the man's arm was virtually intolerable. Amazingly, the arm looked normal except for an inflamed finger....

Meet the CIC chair: CIC executive director, Roland Andersson, MCIC, puts a few questions to the new CIC chair, Richard J. Puddephatt, FCIC.(Interview)
October 1, 2003... You have experienced many changes in the chemistry profession and field over your career. What are the most significant changes in research chemistry over the past several decades? "The most obvious changes in the mechanics of doing...

The intergovernmental forum on chemical safety: a unique cooperative approach to international chemicals management.(Articles)
October 1, 2003... The Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety also known as the IFCS or Forum, is a unique, overarching participatory mechanism for cooperation on chemical safety. It was established in 1994 in response to a recommendation from the United...

Safe disposal: converting small quantities of hazardous chemicals to non-toxic products at the lab bench.(Articles)
October 1, 2003... What do I do with it? This question was posed to three of us on the University of Alberta department of chemistry Safety Committee about 20 years ago. The "it" was a piece of lithium ribbon left over after an experiment had been completed....

Taking safety seriously: training programs and corporate commitment protect workers at Imperial Oil's Sarnia Research Centre.(Articles)
October 1, 2003... Safety is serious business at the Imperial Oil Sarnia Research Centre. It has long been recognized that an effective training program firmly entrenched in a corporate safety culture is a key ingredient in creating an accident-free workplace....

The current excitement over watching paint dry: the automotive coatings industry is regulated by a large number of environmental, health and safety regulations to reduce air pollution and worker exposure to coating chemicals. This has created a wealth of challenging research and development opportunities for chemists in the industry.(Articles)
October 1, 2003... The Air We Breathe The scene is all too familiar to many of us. You are making your way into work on a fine summer day and you notice a thick, reddish brown haze that has settled over the city or the countryside. This photochemical smog,...

CNC/IUPAC Travel Award for 2004.(CSC Bulletin SCC)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... 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...

Bryan Henry elected IUPAC vice-president.(CSC Bulletin SCC)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... IUPAC is pleased to announce that Bryan R. Henry, FCIC, professor of chemistry at the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Guelph, was elected IUPAC vice-president and president-elect at the 42nd IUPAC Council Meeting...

Students to be honoured in Toronto.(Local Section News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... The Toronto CIC Local Section Student Awards Night will take place on Friday, October 24 in the Lash Miller Building, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, ON. We shall be assembling in Room 158 at about 6:30 p.m. for a 7:00 p.m....

Kimberly I. Roy, MCIC, is the winner of the 2003 Analytical Chemistry Division Graduate Student Award in Honour of Walter E. Harris.(Division News)
October 1, 2003... Kimberly I. Roy, MCIC, is the winner of the 2003 Analytical Chemistry Division Graduate Student Award in Honour of Walter E. Harris, Kimberly I. Roy, MCIC, from the University of Alberta is the winner of the 2003 Analytical Chemistry Division...

National Chemistry Week 2003 Sponsors (as of September 8, 2003).(Brief Article)(Directory)
October 1, 2003... National Chemistry Week 2003 Sponsors (as of September 8, 2003) Gold BASF Dow Chemical Canada Inc. Merck Frosst Centre for Therapeutic Research Silver Anachemia Science Bayer Inc. Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd....

2003 pestcon winner looks at diazinon.(Students News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Doreen Churchill obtained a BSc (Honours) in environmental chemistry from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1998. Her honours project involved the study of model time release herbicides to reduce pesticide release while maintaining...

CSC 2004 student conference calendar.(Students News)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
October 1, 2003... Southwestern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), Trent University, Peterborough, ON, March 2004 Western Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference, May 2004 ChemCon2004 (CIC-APICS Atlantic Student Chemistry...

Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry.(Students News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry November 7-9, 2003 Banff Park Lodge Banff, AB The Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry (BSOC) 2003 will be held in picturesque Banff in the fall of 2003. This conference aims to highlight graduate...

UVic brilliance shines coast to coast!(Students News)
October 1, 2003... The University of Victoria chemistry department celebrated its 40th birthday in style this May, with a reunion and mini-conference over the Victoria Day long weekend. The weekend got off to a brilliant start on Friday afternoon with the...

Le recipiendaire du prix Brian-T.-Newbold 2003.(Student News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Simon Foucher de Dieppe (N.-B.) est le recipiendaire du prix Brian-T.-Newbold, offert par le departement de chimie et biochimie pour souligner I'excellence d'un projet de recherche realise pendant la 4e annee du BSc. Le departement a cree...

Meeting/Reunions.(Careers)(Calendar)
October 1, 2003... Canada October 24, 2003. Chemistry, Catalyst of the Imaginary, Sherbrooke, QC. E-mailcolloquechimie15e@yahoo.ca; Website: www.15ecolloquedechimie.com. October 25, 2003. The Nature of Engineering: Who we are and who we want...

The anomeric (Edward-Lemieux) effect: Milestones of Canadian Chemistry in the 20th Century: the 1950's.
October 1, 2003... Substituents in cyclohexane favor the less crowded equatorial position over the axial position. This preference extrapolates well to a wide range of other six-membered rings with one notable exception. Electronegative substituents at the C-2...