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Success in science means communicating the value of your research outside academic boundaries; failing to do so from the outset can have disastrous consequences.
Hundreds of people decked out in white lab coats and black mourning garb protested the "death of
evidence" in a mock funeral procession to Parliament Hill last July in response to government cuts to
research programs.
By Tim Lougheed
By day you can find Rui Resendes at the Kingston, Ont. headquarters of GreenCentre Canada, located in a research park just a few kilometres from the campus of Queen’s University. There he is executive director of a commercialization enterprise dedicated to sustainable chemistry. The work reflects his varied professional background, which includes stints as an industrial chemist as well as an entrepreneur....
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