After receiving positive feedback during first round of STEM-Pals, UCalgary CIDE is back with the second round of STEM-Pals, a pen-pal/mentorship program to link middle school students in Calgary with University students who are passionate about STEM.Our main goal with this project is to inspire students to explore future careers in STEM/discuss higher education and overcoming obstacles. We will be matching volunteers from the UofC with Calgarian middle school students. Once paired with a student, volunteers in this program will write a 6 letters (emails) to their matches and receive 6 in responses. This would run over the span of six months i.e. from November till the month of Apri. We will match students with volunteers using an interest-based method, to ensure that students and volunteers share some common ground and can make the most out of their partnership.#EDI #Mentorship #Diversitymatters #change #Scienceforeveryone #DEI #Inclusivity

Hi everyone, there will be another STEM Together session Thursday, November 4th at 10 am. We are very excited to have Laura Rojas from the Department of Pediatrics in the Cumming School of Medicine and Leonie O'Sullivan from the Department of Chemistry presenting. As a reminder,  STEM Together is an informal event where students and postdocs get the opportunity to present their work at a high level, using just one PowerPoint slide in 3 minutes. Hope to see you there! 

#research #STEM #zoom

Happy to announce that we are officially linked to CIC - Student Chapter website. More information can be found over here - https://www.cheminst.ca/communities/students/student-chapters/

UCalgary CIDE members got the opportunity to exchange ideas during Grad Fair organized by Graduate Students’ Association at the University of Calgary! We are thrilled to welcome new comers to our University! #EDI #EquityandDiversity #Inclusion #Gradfair #Gradlife

Our August STEM Together was very successful with an amazing presentation. Be sure to keep an eye out for the next STEM Together!

We would like to thank Royal Society Chemistry (RSC) Inclusion & Diversity Fund for their funding support towards during our presentation for “Forming EDI Allies in the Chemistry Community” symposium organized by CWIC at IUPAC/Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE).

Our abstract for an oral talk on "Building EDI connections for lifelong learning" has been accepted for IUPAC-CCCE ! we will be presenting a poster at "Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry" (https://ewochem.org/) Conference, 2021.

Virtual Event FAQ IUPAC | CCCE 2021 will be a fully virtual event, please check the website for the program and more details!

(https://www.cheminst.ca/conference/ccce2021/)

Stem Together is an informal event where students get the opportunity to give a 3 minute presentation of their work using one PowerPoint slide. If you would like to sign up to be a speaker at our next event, please feel free to add your name to this google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mfZIn0Kjg4EY9na0dwQHfe2BX16CKSSRfp1Zz7dXqvo/edit?usp=sharing

Join us for a friendly science talk in CHEM TOGETHER. 

Here is the link to feedback on IUPAC Global Women’s Breakfast (GWB) organized this year by various Chapters of CWIC. It is written by our Chair (Milanpreet Kaur) for the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC). 

https://www.cheminst.ca/magazine/article/cwic-celebrated-the-iupac-global-womens-breakfast/