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Delegates pose at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) held in Philadelphia in August. Barbara Albert, president of the German Chemical Society (left), CSC President Cathleen Crudden, and Lesley Yellowlees, president of the U.K.’s Royal Society of Chemistry.
Roland Andersson, CIC executive director (left), Madeleine Jacobs, ACS executive director, and Nobuyuki Kawashima, executive director of the Chemical Society of Japan.
Things to know
The CSC made recommendations to NSERC in September on behalf of Canada’s chemists for how to restructure the Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grant Program after its funding was reduced by more than half during the last federal budget. The submission was based on the results of a survey conducted by the CSC and can be viewed at www.cheminst.ca/advocacy.
National Chemistry Week begins on October 13 and runs until October 21. Contact your Local Section or visit www.cheminst.ca/outreach to find events in your area.
Save the date
October 10–12, 2012
Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioenergy
Vancouver, B.C.
www.bio.org/events
October 14–17, 2012
62nd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE 2012)
Vancouver, B.C.
www.csche2012.ca
October 26, 2012
24e Colloque des étudiants et étudiantes de 1er cycle en chemie
Sherbrooke, Que.
pages.usherbrooke.ca/colloque-chimie/
November 9-12, 2012
Quebec Ontario Minisymposium in Synthetic and Bioorganic Chemistry Windsor, Ont.
www.uwindsor.ca/qomsboc
May 26-30, 2013
96th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2013) Québec, Que.
www.csc2013.ca
May 27–29, 2013
3rd Climate Change Technology Conference
Montreal, Que.
www.cctc2013.ca
June 15–19, 2013
World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing
Montreal, Que.
www.bio.org/events
August 18-23, 2013
9th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE9) Coex, Seoul, Korea
www.wcce9.org
October 20-23, 2013
63rd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE2013) Fredericton, N.B.
www.csche2013.ca
Grapevine
Elizabeth Edwards, (Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto), Bruce Lennox and Chao-Jun Li (both, Chemistry, McGill University), Andrew J. Roger, (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University), Tsun-Kong Sham, (Chemistry, Western University), Hans J. Vogel, (Biological Sciences, University of Calgary) and Gerard D. Wright, (Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University) were all named fellows of the Royal Society of Canada in September.
John Paul Pezacki of the National Research Council's Biomolecular Sensing and Imaging
group won the Royal Society of Canada’s Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry in September.
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