The University of Manitoba, together with the Undergraduate Chemistry Club is pleased to be hosting the 2011 Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC), acknowledging the 25th anniversary of this event. This is especially significant, as 2011 has been designated the International Year of Chemistry by UNESCO and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
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Phil Hultin, a professor of chemistry at the University of Manitoba, explains how road salt, which is essentially table salt, melts ice.
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For more information contact Sean Moore, public affairs, University of Manitoba, 204-474-7963 (sean_moore@umanitoba.ca).

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Chemistry professor Phil Hultin is available to speak about the chemical properties and biological effects of Malathion, a chemical used to curb mosquito populations.
He can be reached at 204-474-9814 (hultin@cc.umanitoba.ca).
For more information please contact Sean Moore, public affairs, University of Manitoba, at 204-474-7963 (sean_moore@umanitoba.ca).

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In this edition of Campus Cast, University of Manitoba physiologist Kevin Campbell explains how he and his team were able to ‘resurrect’ authentic woolly mammoth hemoglobin - the blood protein responsible for delivering oxygen from the lungs to the tissues.Campus Cast is semi-weekly podcast produced by the University of Manitoba that allows researchers to talk […]

 

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Researchers at the University of Manitoba have received $1.2 million, over three years, to develop components that could be used to create a clean, “green,” renewable fuel-generating system.
Michael Freund and Torsten Hegmann, chemistry, and Douglas Thomson, electrical and computer engineering, are part of an international collaboration with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) working to […]

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