| 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 18 | Workshop |
Negotiating and Communication Styles. Dr. Darlene Hnatchuk (CAPS McGill). 12:00-14:00. OM 428. |
| June 19 |
Student seminar |
Interrupted Melanogenesis: A Short, Bio-Inspired Entry into Highly Functionalized Indoles. Ohhyeon Kwon (Lumb group). 12:00-13:00. Ruttan Room. |
| June 12 | Workshop |
Professionalism in the work place. CAPS McGill. 12:00-13:30. Ruttan Room. |
| May 17 | Summer School |
Day 2: Graphics workshop (Prof. Audrey Moores), 9:00-11:30: closed session for trainees. Green Entrepreneurship workshop (Dr. John Warner, Warner-Babcock Institute), 13:00-16:00: open to all. OM 217. 3MT Student Competition (OM 217), 16:15-17:15: open to all. OM 217. |
| May 16 | Summer School | Day 1: Career paths for Chemists. 9:00-16:00. OM 217. Closed session for trainees. |
| May 11 | Workshop |
Prof. Audrey Moores. 3MT Final Practice Session. 10:00-12:00. Ruttan Room. |
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April 27 |
Student seminar |
Julie Ducharme (Auclair group). Investigation of Cytochrome P450 3A4 Cooperativity via Bioconjugation of Natural Ligands. 12:00-13:00. Ruttan room. |
| April 13 |
Workshop |
Prof. Audrey Moores. 3MT Practice Session II. 13:30-15:30. P&P 109B. |
| March 16 | Workshop |
Prof. Audrey Moores. 3MT Practice Session I. 10:00-12:00. Ruttan Room. |
| March 9 | Workshop | Jan Bottomer (CAPS, McGill). Time Management for Students. 11:30-13:30. Ruttan Room. |
| March 1 | Student seminar |
Arshath Abdul Rahim (Ghoshal group). Detection and characterization of metal nanoparticles in biosolids from municipal wastewater treatment plants. 12:45-13:45. OM 428. |
| February 10 |
Annual Interdisciplinary Case Competition |
Keynote lectures by Howie Honeyman (CEO of FWT; formerly CTO GreenCentre; SVP of R&D and Applications at Natrix Separations; and Principal Scientist at E-Ink) and Adrian Horotan (Safer Made). 13:00-15:00. Seminars and student competition. Bronfman Building: room 422. |
| January 26 | Student seminar | Zoe Hearne (Li group). Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Conjugated Dienals. 12:00-13:00. Ruttan Room. |
| January 18 |
Workshop |
Media Training. McGill Media Relations. 9:30-12:30. Service Point pavillion: room MS-74.
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| 2016 | ||
| November 28 | Workshop | Dr. Leigh Loots. Data Visualization: Effectively communicating your findings through images. 10:00-12:00. Research Commons (Redpath-McLellan library). |
| November 14 |
Seminar |
Tim Lougheed. Media Training: Science journalism and becoming a better communicator. 14:00-16:00. Ruttan room. |
| November 7 |
Instrumentation training |
Nathalie Bourgeoys (Agilent). GC Lunch & Learn. 10:00-12:00. Ruttan room. |
| October 30 | Outreach |
McGill Open House. Chemistry demonstrations all day long by CREATE trainees. Oct. 30: 10:00-16:00, Otto Maass (main lobby and labs). |
| September 19 | Seminar |
Dr. Mike Ward (Editor, Chem. Mater.). Challenges in Scientific Publication and Communication in a Twitter World . 12:00-14:30, Ruttan room. |
| September 8 | Student seminar |
Patrick Julien (Friscic group). Developing Greener Approaches to Metal-Organic Materials. Sept. 8: 12:00-13:00, Ruttan room. |
| August 31 | Seminar |
Nathalie Bourgeoys (Agilent). Lunch & Learn: Selecting the best column for your analysis. 11:00-13:00, Ruttan room. |
| August 18 |
Seminar |
Dr. Mahmood Sabahi. IP and Patents. 10:30-12:30, Ruttan room. |
| July 13 | Seminar |
Dr. Maxwell Leung (National Center for Computational Toxicology, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 13:30. McIntyre Medical Bldg., room 1345. |
| June 21 |
HPLC training |
Paul Poupart (Agilent). 9:00-16:00. Lumb and Li labs. |
| May 11 |
CREATE summer school: Day 3 |
Professors Li (Green Synthesis), Moores (Nanotechnology), Friscic (Mechanochemistry) and Jessop (Queens University: Supercritical fluids) 8:30-11:00 and 13:00-16:00. OM 217. 3MT student competition: OM 217. |
| May 10 |
CREATE summer school: Day 2 |
Professors Voutchkova and Kostal (GWU). Toxicology workshop. 8:30-13:00, 14:45-16:30. OM 217. Prof. Vanderwal (University of California, Irvine). Seminar: Title TBD. 13:00-14:30. OM 10. |
| May 9 | CREATE summer school: Day 1 | Prof. Bhavik Bakshi (Ohio State University). LCIA workshop. 8:30-16:30. OM 217. Co-sponsored with TISED.
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| April 25 |
Student seminar |
Mikel Landry (Moores-Barrett group). Illuminating catalysis: Photo reduction and oxidation of carbonyl compounds with silver nanocubes. 12:00-13:00. Ruttan Room. |
| April 14 |
Workshop |
Dr. Audrey Moores. Three minutes to present your research (part II). 13:00-15:00. P&P 109B. |
| April 13 |
Worskhop |
Dr. Leigh Loots (McGill). Crafting Effective Scientific Abstracts. The McGill Writing Center. 11:00-13:30. McLellan Library. |
| March 7 |
Student seminar |
Hanno Erythropel (Nicell group). Evaluation of maleate, fumarate and succinate diesters as potential green plasticizers. 14:30-15:30. OM 428.
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| March 1 | Workshop | Prof. Audrey Moores. 3 Minutes to Present Your Research. 10:30-12:00. Ruttan Room. |
| February 8 | Student seminar |
Mehrnoosh Azodi (Ghoshal group). Dissolution and re-formation of Ag NPs in municipal wastewater media. 12:00-13:00. OM 428. |
| January 26 | Seminar |
Paul Anastas (Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University). Q&A on Green Chemistry and Beyond. 11:00-12:00. OM 36. |
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January 22-23 |
Annual case competition |
Heather MacLean (University of Toronto) and Amy Cannon (Beyond Benign). Seminars and student competition. Bronfman Building. |
| January 21 | Seminar |
Amy Cannon (Beyond Benign). Green Chemistry Education. 14:00-15:30. Ruttan Room. |
| January 14 | Student seminar |
Laure Kayser (Arndsten group). New Multicomponent Polymerization Approaches to Conjugated Polyheterocycles and Poly(1,3-Dipoles). 12:00-13:00. OM 428. |
| 2015 | ||
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December 10 |
Student seminar |
Ramjee Kandel (Jessop group). Synthesis and Coordination of Amidine- and Phosphaamidine- Metal Complexes. 12:00-13:00. OM 428. |
| November 20 | Site visit |
Yacine Boumghar, Director. CEPROCQ facility, Montreal. 14:30-16:00. |
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November 19 |
Student seminar |
Amir Nosrat (Maguire group). The Evolution of Climate Risk. 12:00-13:00. OM 428. |
| November 11 |
Seminar |
Michelle Hooth (NIH). The U.S. National Toxicology Program’s Evolving Strategies for Evaluating Substances of Public Health Concern. 14:30-16:00. OM 217. |
| October 22 | Student seminar | Dan O'Reilly (Damha group). Lighting up RNA Synthesis: Looking for Greener Pastures. OM 428. 12:00-13:00. |
| October 21 | Seminar |
Roger Zampini (VP), Rubens Verni (Product Manager, Mining) and Ian Turpin (Sustainability Manager), Quadra. Green Chemistry Initiatives at Quadra Chemicals. Ruttan room. 9:30-11:00 |
| October 15 | Workshop | Mettler Toledo. EasyMax and ReactIR. OM 340. 9:30-17:00 |
| September 24 | Workshop | Tina Cerulli. Project Management Essentials. MNI, De Grandpré Room. 11:00-14:00 |
| September 22 |
Seminar |
Pedro Alvarez (Rice University). Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment. Macdonald Engineering Building 267. 9:30-11:00. |
| September 17 | Student seminar | Paolo Schiavini (Auclair group). Development of P450 mutants for biocatalytic applications. 12:00-13:00. OM428. |
| August 17 | Student seminar | Zoe Hearne (Li group) and Luis Carlos de la Garza Becerra (Moores group). Internships 101. 12:00-13:00. OM 428. |
| June 4 | Student seminar | Jevgenijs Tjutrins (Arndtsen group). Palladium-Catalyzed Carbonylative functionalization of heterocyclic compounds. 14:00-15:00. OM 428. |
| June 1 | Workshop | Ma'n Zawati, McGill Centre of Genomics and Policy. Research Ethics. 12:00-14:00. OM428. |
| May 28 | Seminar | Mark Andrews (McGill). How to Navigate the World of Start-Ups. 15:00-16:00. OM 10. |
| May 28 | Student seminar | Md Abu Affan (Jessop group). Catalytic Formylation of Primary/Secondary Amine with CO2 and H2 using a Non-Precious Metal Complexes. 14:00-15:00. OM 428. |
| May 25 | Workshop | Audrey Moores. Using social media: making the most of what’s out there. 12:00-14:00. Ruttan Room. |
| May 11 | Seminar | U.S. Science Policy. Keri Moss, Senior Policy Associate of the American Chemical Society’s Office of Public Affairs. 10:30-12:00, Burnside: room 426. |
| April 16 | Student seminar | The development of selective, catalytic aerobic oxidations of phenols for applications in synthesis. Zheng Huang (Lumb group). 14:30-15:30. Ruttan Room. |
| April 13 | Seminar | POSTPONED. Conchita Jimenez-Gonzalez, GSK Chemical Engineering and Sustainability Leader. GlaxoSmithKline: Green Chemistry Tools and Efforts 12:30-14:30. Ruttan Room. |
| April 8 | Workshop | McGill Toastmasters Club. Speak Up! Enhance Your Natural Speak-Ability. 17:00-19:00. Ruttan Room. |
| March 25 | Seminar | Tim Malloy (UCLA). Regulatory Frameworks: The Prevention, Substitution and Precautionary Principles: Conflict and Comity in Chemical Policy. 13:00-16:00. Bronfman 360. |
| March 24 | Workshop | Intellectual Property. CIPO. March 24, 11:00-13:00, Macdonald Engineering Building room 267. |
| March 16 | Student seminar | Igor Huskic (Friscic group). Title: TBD. March 19, 14:00-15:00. Ruttan Room. |
| March 4 | Tour | McGill's Hazardous Waste Management Facility. Christian Bouchard. 13:30-14:30, McIntyre Medical Bldg. |
| March 2 | Workshop | The Pharmaceutical Industry: An Introduction, followed by a recruiting session. Gilead. 13:00-16:00. Ruttan Room. |
| February 16 | Workshop | POSTPONED (date TBD). Tricks of the Trade: Crafting Grant Applications for Success. Prof. R. Bruce Lennox (McGill). 12:00-13:30. Ruttan Room. |
| February 9 | Student seminar | Xijie Dai, Li group. Iridium-Catalyzed Direct Alcohol Deoxygenation. 12:00-13:00. OM 428. |
| January 21 | Seminar | Regulatory Frameworks: Responsible Care. Bob Masterson, VP (Responsible Care) at the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada. Jan. 21, 2015. 17:30-19:00. Bronfman Building, Room 001. jacqueline.farrell [at] mcgill.ca (Registration required). |
| January 16-17 | Workshop | Drs. Robin Rogers (Canada Excellence Research Chair in Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals at McGill University) and Eric Beckman (Co-Director of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh). Sustainable Innovation through Green Chemistry Workshop and Case Competition. Keynote lectures: Jan. 16, 13:00-15:00, Bronfman Building, Room 422. Workshop and case competition for students: Jan. 16, 13:00-18:00 and Jan. 17, 10:00-17:30. Desautels. jacqueline.farrell [at] mcgill.ca (Registration required). |
| January 15 | Seminar | Eric Beckman, Co-Director of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh. Starting Your Own Business. 12:00-13:30. Ruttan Room. jacqueline.farrell [at] mcgill.ca (Registration required). |
| 2014 | ||
| December 17 | Instrumentation workshop | Mettler Toledo. Recent Advances in Process Optimization Technologies: FBRM, PVM, EasySampler, ReactIR, EasyMax and OptiMax. 9:30-12:30. OM 328 and lab 440 |
| December 8 | Student seminar | Mary Bateman, Moores group. Copper coated iron microparticles: magnetically retrievable and low-leaching heterogeneous catalysts for the azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition. 12:30-13:30. Ruttan Room. |
| November 17 | Student seminar | Arash Amirkhany, Maguire group. What goes around comes around: the translation of chemical risks into business risks. 12:00-13:00. OM 428. |
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November 11 |
Workshop |
Job Skills: Negotiating Salary, Benefits, and Compensation. Darlene Hnatchuk (CaPS McGill). 10:00-11:30. Arts 160. jacqueline.farrell [at] mcgill.ca (Registration required.) |
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November 6 |
Workshop |
Professional and Business Etiquette — Unspoken Rules for Success: networking, business and professional communication, dining etiquette. Niem Tu Huynh (CaPS McGill). 12:00-14:00. de Grandpré room, MNI. jacqueline.farrell [at] mcgill.ca (Registration required.) |
| October 20 | Student seminar | Anna Albertson, Lumb group. An efficient, biomimetic approach to lignan natural products via oxidative cyclobutane fragmentation. 12:00-13:00. OM 428. |
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October 2 |
Workshop |
How to Talk So the Media Will Listen. Oct. 2, 9:30-12:30. McGill Media Services, Prof. Tim Kennedy, and invited journalists. With the CREATE in Neuroengineering. 9:30-12:30. Burnside 107. jacqueline.farrell [at] mcgill.ca (Registration required). |
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September 22 |
Workshop |
Intellectual Property and You. Hugh Mansfield; Lawyer and Patent Agent, Goudreau Gage Dubuc. 13:00-16:00. P&P 109B. jacqueline.farrell [at] mcgill.ca (Registration required). |
| September 8 | Student seminar | Sai Chandrasekar, Ghoshal group. Enhanced reductive dechlorination of trichloroethylene by sulfidated nanoscale zero valent iron. 12:00-13:00. OM 428. |
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August 25 |
Workshop |
How to Start McGill’s Own Student-Led Green Chemistry Initiative. Laura Reyes, University of Toronto. 12:30-14:30. Ruttan Room. jacqueline.farrell [at] mcgill.ca (Registration required). |
| August 21 | Student seminar | Davin Tan, Friscic group. Medicine balls and smashing crystals: Mechanochemical synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant sulfonyl -ureas, -thioureas and –guanidines. 12:00-13:00. Ruttan Room. |
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June 16 |
Workshop |
What is Leadership? Campus Life & Engagement. 11:00-12:00. Brown Building, room 5001. |
| June 9 | Student seminar | Jack Cheong, Auclair group. Expanding the Organic Toolbox: Asymmetric C-H Oxidation and C=C Epoxidation by P450 enzymes. 12:00-13:00. Otto Maass 428. |
| May 23 | Seminar | How to Publish Your Research in High-Impact Journals. With the Royal Society of Chemistry. May 23, 15:00-16:00. Ruttan Room. |
| May 19 | Conference | CEMWOQ: Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario and Quebec. May 19, 9:00-18:00. Room 217 for talks; poster session in the General Chemistry Lab. |
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May 12 |
Workshop |
POSTPONED: TBA. How to Talk to the Media and Not Get Misquoted. Carole Graveline and Jacquie Rourke (McGill Media Relations), with invited journalists. May 12, 9:30-16:00. Burnside 105. |
| May 5 | Student seminar | Boran Xu, Arndtsen group. A Tyrosinase-Based, TEMPO-Free Approach to Highly Active Copper Catalysts for the Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols. 12:00-13:00. Otto Maass 428. |
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April 30 |
Workshop |
Facilitation Skills workshop: Leading Effective Discussions. Campus Life & Engagement. 10:00-16:30. Education Building. |
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April 28 |
Workshop |
Writing workshop: Polishing Poster Presentations. Chris Corkery, Barrett Group. 9:30-11:30. McIntyre Medical Building, room 208/9. |
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April 23 |
Workshop |
Making Connections: How to Network at Conferences with CREATE Green Chemistry and CREATE Neuroengineering. Presented by Susan Molnar of CAPS McGill. 11:00-12:00. Otto Maass 428. |
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April 14 |
Seminar |
Student seminar: Simon Girard, Li group. Dehydrogenative Aromatisation: New Synthetic Methodologies for Functionalized Arenes. 12:00-13:00. Otto Maass 428. |
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April 7 |
Training Day |
Waters: Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) hands-on training. 9:00-4:00. Otto Maass 440. |
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March 27 |
Workshop |
Professional and Business Etiquette — Unspoken Rules for Success: networking, business and professional communication, dining etiquette. Darlene Hnatchuk (CaPS McGill). 9:45-11:15. Ruttan Room: Otto Maass. |
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March 24 |
Seminar |
Student seminar: Isla Milne, Maguire group. |
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March 13 |
Lunch & Learn |
The Drivers of Green Chemistry. Kira Matus (London School of Economics). 12:45-14:00. Thompson House. jacqueline.farrell [at] mcgill.ca (Registration required). |
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March 6 |
Workshop |
Intellectual Property: Christian Cawthorn (Partner, Patent Agent from Norton Rose Fulbright Canada) and the McGill Patent Protection Office. 13:00-16:00. Ruttan Room: Otto Maass. |
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February 17 |
Seminar |
Student seminar: Stoyan Rangelov, Nicell group. |
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January 23 |
Workshop |
POSTPONED. Making Connections: How to Network at Conferences with CREATE Green Chemistry and CREATE Neuroengineering. Presented by Linda Cicuta of CAPS McGill. 12:00 to 14:00. de Grandpré meeting room, MNI. Lunch is included. |
| 2013 | ||
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December 5 |
Webinar |
ACS webinar: Alternative Assessments: Strategies for Sustainable Product Development. Question period with Dr. Audrey Moores. 14:00-15:00. Pulp & Paper 113. |
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December 9 |
Seminar |
Student seminar: Kenneth Esguerra, Lumb group. |
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November 25 |
Seminar |
Student seminar: Monika Rak, Moores group. |
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October 21 |
Seminar | Student seminar: Marie Barnes; Jessop group (Queen's University) |
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September 23 |
Seminar | Student seminar: Sourjya Bhattacharjee; Ghoshal group. |
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September 13-14, Bronfman Building |
Workshop/seminars | Sustainable Innovation Through Green Chemistry Workshop and Case Competition, and lectures by David Constable and Lynn Leger. |
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September 5-6 |
Workshop | 2nd Canada-China Green Chemistry and Catalysis Workshop |
| June 26 | Seminar | Student Seminar Cristina_Mottillo Friscic group |
| June 12 | Workshop | Micro GC_training_day Agilent |
| June 11 | Workshop | Perkin Elmer_Lunch and Learn Series |
| May 31 | Workshop | Self-Assembly in the Solid State as a Route to Greener Chemical Processes |
| May 28 | Seminar | Endocrine Disruption Seminar |
| May 24 | Workshop | Interdisciplinary Teaching Initiatives |
| May 22 | Seminar | Student Seminar: Danielle Vlaho |
| April 22 | Seminar | Student Seminar: Vanja Polic |
| March 27 | Workshop | CAT systems H*E*L |
| March 25 | Seminar | Student Seminar: Jeffrey Quesnel |
| February 25 | Seminar | Student Seminar: Nick Uhlig |
| February 19 | Workshop | Intellectual Property |
| February 15 | Workshop | Mettler Toledo: ReactIR and EasyMax State-of-the-Art Technologies for Organic Synthetic Research |
| 2012 | ||
| December 6 | ACS Webinar | J. Zimmerman: Rational Design of Safer Chemicals |
| November 5 | Seminar | Dr Scialli: Hazard vs Risk: REACH as a case study |
| September 7-8 | Workshop | Sustainable innovation through Green Chemistry: an interdisciplinary student workshop |
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