CIC
Award for Chemical Education
The Chemical Education
Award, formerly the Union Carbide Award
recognizes a person who has made outstanding contributions in Canada
in education at any level in the field of chemistry or chemical
engineering. The award is sponsored by The Chemical Education Trust
Fund of The Chemical Institute of Canada |
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Ron Martin, FCIC
Department of Chemistry
University of Western Onatario |
| Ronald Martin was born in Quebec City. He
completed his BSc and MSc at St. Francis Xavier University in 1963 and 1965
respectively followed by a PhD at the University of Western Ontario, 1969.
After a Post-Doctoral position at the University of Southampton, he returned
to Western in 1970. He has served on the executive of the Chemical Education
and Environmental Divisions of the CIC and has received numerous teaching
awards . He has been active in initiatives in university teaching including
the establishment of the Graduate Environmental Chemistry Program at the
University of Western Ontario. He carries out an active research program
with nearly sixty papers in peer-reviewed journals with an emphasis on
innovative interdisciplinary research including cooperative programs with
Surface Science Western and the Universities of Auckland, Heidelberg and
South Australia. The most recent research using Synchrotron Radiation
Analysis has been carried out jointly with the Biology and Anthropology
Departments at the University of Western Ontario; this work will be assisted
by the new Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatoon. He was
appointed Adjunct Research Professor at the Ian Wark Research Institute,
University of South Australia (2004). Future work will include the
development of interdisciplinary graduate courses with departments such as
anthropology while continuing synchrotron based research on metals in the
rhizosphere and human teeth. |
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Award for Chemistry Teaching in Community and Technical Colleges
(formerly the NOVA Chemicals Award)
The Award for
Chemistry Teaching in Community and Technical Colleges is presented to
an outstanding teacher in the area of chemistry,
biochemistry, chemical engineering technology or chemical technology
at community or technical colleges.
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Not offered in 2005 |
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Lanxess Inc.
Award for High School Chemistry Teachers
(formerly the Bayer Award for High School Chemistry Teachers) The Lanxess
Inc. Awards recognize excellence in the teaching of chemistry at the
secondary school level.
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Not offered in 2005 |
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The
Clara Benson Award
The Clara Benson Award is for
a distinguished contribution to chemistry by a woman.
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Sponsored by
Canadian Council of University Chemistry Chairs (CCUCC)
Mary
Fairhurst, FCIC
Analytical Sciences, R&D
Dow Chemical Canada Inc.
Fort Saskatchewan, AB |
Mary Fairhurst was born in Montreal and received her
BSc. Honours Chemistry from Marianopolis College. She taught
chemistry as a CUSO volunteer in Ghana for
two years before beginning graduate studies at the University of
Alberta. Her graduate work in analytical
chemistry was focused on the use of NMR
spectroscopy to study the solution chemistry and kinetics of
metal-amino acid complexes. Fairhurst
spent one year as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the Trace Analysis
Research Institute at Dalhousie University in Halifax. She joined
Dow Chemical Canada as an analytical
chemist and has worked at Dow’s Fort
Saskatchewan location for more than 23 years. Mary’s career at Dow
has covered a variety of areas, including analytical method
development and process research along with a few assignments in
Dow’s production laboratories. Her current position as R&D Resource
Leader involves leading the Analytical Sciences laboratory at Fort
Saskatchewan and representing R&D on the Fort Saskatchewan Site
Leadership team.
Fairhurst has held various executive
positions in the Edmonton Local Section of the CIC and served as
Treasurer for the 1992 CSC conference in Edmonton. In addition,
she has been involved in numerous
scientific review and assessment committees for CFI (Canada
Foundation for Innovation) and ASRA (Alberta Science and Research
Authority). She has also served on both
the Alumni Council and the Senate of the University of Alberta and
is an active supporter of the WISEST program. |
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Reg Friesen Award
Awarded annually to the best paper presented by graduate or
undergraduate students at the education sessions at both the annual
CSC and CSChE conferences. This award is sponsored by the CIC
Chemical Education Division.
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For more
information on CSC winners, please refer to the regional conference web sites.
2005 CSChE winners
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CSC Undergraduate Student
Poster Competition
An award for student posters on undergraduate
research in any branch of chemistry. Submissions report on research
to which a student has made a substantial contribution as an undergraduate.
Sponsored by the Canadian Society for Chemistry and organized by the
CIC Chemical Education Division at the annual Canadian Society for
Chemistry Conference.
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Student Awards |
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