Conferences
Waving the Green Flag
The Waving the Green Flag symposium was hosted at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2024) in Winnipeg, June 2-6. This year participants experienced a series of interactive, exploratory-based activities focused on emerging methods in sustainable chemistry, inorganic catalysis, measures of sustainability, and green chemistry education.
Through a lens of gamification and accessibility the symposium challenged the expectations of traditional symposia (posters and presentation), to empower participants to engage in conversations centering on critical reflection and thinking about how we can better understand the chemistry through a multi-faceted view of sustainability and synthesis.
Organizers: Marissa L. Clapson (UPEI), Emma Davy (UBC), Connor Durfy (Western), Greg Bannard (UWindsor), Jasmine Hong (McGill), Gagan Daliaho (McGill), Shauna Schechtel (Queens), Julia Pitsiaeli (UBC).
Societal Impacts of Inorganic Chemistry
Hosted at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2023) in Vancouver, the Societal Impacts of Inorganic Chemistry symposium focused on creating interactive, inquiry-based activities to introduce participants to concepts of sustainability, life cycle analysis, and green catalyst development.
Participants throughout the session utilized green chemistry principles to solve puzzles, brainstormed new catalyst motifs, and developed a network of like-minded researchers.
Organizers: Marissa L. Clapson (UWindsor), Shauna Schechtel (Queens), Emma Davy (UBC), Sabrina Scott (UBC), and Connor Durfy (Western).
Conference News
Ali Nasoudi presents his work on carboxylic acid esterification leveraging silanes in the secondary coordination sphere at ChemCon 2024.
Connor Durfy wins Best Chemistry Education Poster award at CSC 2023 for his work on developing interactive conference symposium Societal Impacts of Inorganic Chemistry.
Shauna Schechtel presents her work with ChemEscape developing inquiry driven escape-room activities for online classrooms in general and organic chemistry.
The Team kicks off the Societal Impacts of Inorganic Chemistry interactive symposium at CSC 2023. From left to right, Shauna Schechtel, Connor Durfy, and Sabrina Scott. Not pictured, Dr. Emma Davy.
Dr. Marissa Clapson presents her postdoctoral research with the Drover Group at CSC 2023 focused on three-coordinate nickel dimers of vinyl and allylphosphine.
Dr. Marissa Clapson win the Rigaku Oral Presentation Award the the 2022 IDW conference for her postdoctoral research on cooperative nitrile coordination using nickel and a boron-containing secondary coordination sphere.
Julia Pitsiaeli and Connor Durfy enthusiastically present their work with the Waving the Green Flag Symposium during the Chemistry Education Poster Session at CSC 2024.