On January 27th, 2024, WICTO hosted our second annual WICTO Symposium: Connecting Through Chemistry in the Earth Sciences Building at the University of Toronto campus. More than 150 undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs from chemistry and STEM departments from across Toronto part...
On November 19th, 2022, WICTO hosted its inaugural professional development symposium titled “Connecting Through Chemistry” in Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories. More than 70 participants, including undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs from the Chemistry department across all three camp...
On November 17th, 2022, WICTO had the great pleasure of hosting Prof. Ashlee Howarth from Concordia University as part of WICTO’s Seminar Series. Her talk highlighted her group’s research on rare-earth metal-organic frameworks and their potential applications in pollution remediation, catalysis,...
IUPAC’s Global Women’s Breakfast was held on February 16th this year. IUPAC hosts this breakfast annually to celebrate women in science, inspire younger generations, support the professional development of women in science, and to build a global network to close the gender gap in science. WICTO has...
This summer, our co-chair, Navina, attended a talk at CCCE by Michael Godfrey from the University of Windsor titled “Clear but cloudy skies: An investigation of the climate for LGBTQ2S+ students in science”. The speaker discussed results from a survey about campus culture. Many respondents shared th...