Group News

When your Board of Trustees last met on 16 November 2011, the key priority was to agree the rolling business plan for 2012-14 and the budget to implement this.

Water use to grow and process biomass feedstocks for fuels has recently emerged as an important controversy. In a world where several countries already face water stress – and where over 70% of global freshwater use takes place in the agricultural sector – bioenergy development might present considerable challenges, from the perspective of water quantity as well as water quality.

The SCI Electrochemical Technology Group presented the Castner Medal on 4 August 2011 to Professor Emeritus Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, from the School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia.

If SCI members from around the world are visiting Melbourne, they can be sure of a warm welcome

The Australia Group is sad to report the passing of its Secretary/Treasurer, John Fowler, on January 20th 2011 after prolonged illness. He was 79.

Stephanie Burns, CEO and Chairman of Dow Corning and new Honorary President of SCI, talks about her experience leading a corporation where innovation is paramount. She also discusses SCI's role in driving knowledge transference in the chemical industry, CSR initiatives and innovative ideas for the future of SCI involving community engagement and mentoring of young scientists.

SCI is always happy to welcome new volunteers and members to the Society.

On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 September 2008, SCI ran two ‘workshop and best practice sharing’ events, open to all Treasurers, Secretaries and Chairs of Regional Interest (RIG) and Technical Interest Groups (TIG).

The main aim of SCI is to bring members together and an online forum can help us do this through the web.

On Monday, 28 September 2009, SCI will be hosting a one-day ‘Volunteer Workshop and Best Practice’ day for the Honorary Chairmen, Secretaries and Treasurers of all its UK-based Interest Groups.

The 2009 SCI Plant of the Year Award was won by VEOLIA Environmental Services for its Woodlawn Bioreactor.

Kay Latham's talk in the Hartung youth lecture series, ‘Synchrotron: making the light fantastic’, was extremely topical as the Victorian government is building Australia’s first and only synchrotron in Melbourne.