Kick Start Your Career is an annual event organised by the Liverpool and North West Group to enable students of chemistry, chemical engineering and related subjects to meet successful business and industry personnel from the area and talk about careers.
'What’s In My Stuff?' , by Dr Hywel Jones, taking place later in the year on 13 October 2012, looks at consumer tech in a totally new way.
The annual student prize-giving event took place on 10 November 2011 at the Portico Library in Central Manchester.
The Liverpool and North West Group and the Catalyst Science Discovery Centre jointly organised a public lecture that aimed to raise the profile of science in society.
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 International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF) is regarded the highlight of the ferroelectrics calendar, and was this year combined with the International Symposium on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy on Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials (PFM).
Leverhulme Travel Bursar Dixit Parmar sent this report from the 42nd National Organic Symposium held in Princeton, New Jersey in June 2011.
This year's Hurter Lecture, organised by the Liverpool and North West Group, was presented by Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE entitled 'The chemistry of consciousness – a neuroscientist's view of a philosopher's problem'.
On Thursday, 3 February 2011, over 150 students from universities in Liverpool, Bangor, Manchester and other North West educational establishments came to the Chemistry Department at the University of Manchester, to attend 'Kick-start your career'
Dr Rhodes joined SCI in 2007 and has worked for British Steel and the Atomic Energy Authority.
Dr Mike Pitts currently works for Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network, managing activities in sustainability and biobased products.
The Liverpool and North West careers event continues to go from strength to strength with over 150 students attending this year's Kickstart Your Career.
The SCI Fine Chemicals Group held its 21st annual 'Graduate Symposia for Novel Organic Chemistry', in early 2010, giving final year PhD students the opportunity to present their latest research.
Seligman Fellow Eliana Fissore is currently in North Wales working on a project in the Centre for Water Soluble Polymers at Glyndwr University under the supervision of Prof Peter A Williams.
Richardson bursar Ei Leen Chan reports from the Netherlands
The SCI College of Scholars held its second regional presentations meeting at Manchester University in a joint event with their Chemical Engineering Deptartment and the SCI Liverpool & North West Regional Interest Group.
Roger Perry, managing director of Brotherton Esseco Ltd in Wakefield, has won the 2010 Chemistry for Industry Award.
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.
Sue talks about her experiences with teaching science to boys and girls, and particularly about her efforts to encourage girls into the field.
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 University of Huddersfield hosted a lecture and open discussion that aimed to provide the audience with a detailed overview of genetically modified crops.
The 15th Joint Annual Conference of The Society of Chemical Industry - Chinese UK Group (SCI-CS) and The Chinese Society of Chemical Science and Technology in the UK (CSCST-UK), was held at the University of Liverpool’s Department of Chemistry.
Lighting a bunsen burner sparked Rekekah's love of chemistry
The workshop was held in conjunction with Chemicals Northwest and the Royal Society of Chemistry at the Liverpool Innovation Park and was delivered by Will Sudworth of InspiringOutcomes.
This talk gave a stimulating and provocative look at claims that humans did not in fact go to the moon, and that the whole momentous occasion was actually manufactured at a huge film studio in the United States
Inspiring the next generation of scientists was a major theme that came through when SCI members came together at the inaugural Members' Forum last November
On 6 March 2008, the Liverpool and North West Regional Group held their prestigious Leverhulme Lecture at the chemistry department of the University of Liverpool
The Catalyst Saturday Science Club for young people aged 11 - 16 meets on the second Saturday of each month in Widnes, Cheshire
The event took place at the Portico Library and Gallery in Mosley Street, central Manchester on Thursday, 15 November 2008
Intellectual Property (IP) is one of the major outputs of all R&D organisations, and yet for most scientists it remains an area shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding
Energy from Waste was held at Lancaster Environment Centre on 18 June 2009, and organised by the Environment and Process Engineering Groups
Dr Malcolm Faers, SCI’s Colloid and Surface Chemistry Group Secretary and formulation scientist at Bayer CropScience, is currently involved in an exciting new research project, funded by the EU and led by the University of Manchester, which will encourage the transfer of ideas and knowledge between top scientists around the world.
Dr Caroline Cordery is to receive the 2005 Lampitt Medal, it was announced by the SCI Awards Committee.
Dr John Beacham has been awarded the Lampitt Medal by the Society. The medal was presented by Sandy Gray, who has since been elected chair of SCI’s board of trustees, at a celebratory reception and dinner held in Warrington, Cheshire, UK in June 2007.
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