The right chemistry: workshop brings together grad students from different faculties for one common goal

If women are from Venus and men are from Mars, as asserted in the 1992 best-selling book by American author and relationship counselor John Gray, then it might also hold true that chemists are from Saturn, engineers are from Mercury and business people are from Jupiter, so different are their respective worlds.

…“We believe this the first of its kind worldwide in which we take MBA students and graduate students from chemistry and engineering,” said Chemistry professor Audrey Moores, one of the co-organizers of the event along with Steve Maguire, Director of the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management. “Basically we wanted to lock them in a room, shake it, and see what would happen.”

Read full article: McGill Reporter, September 18, 2012