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Let’s Talk Science Coordinator nominated for CBC’s Canada’s Champions of Change

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Cathy Orlando-Mathur, Let’s Talk Science Coordinator at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, has recently been nominated for CBC’s Canada’s Champions of Change contest for her community volunteerism and climate change activism.

The contest encourages third parties to nominate volunteers who make an exceptional impact in their community, in Canada or on the planet. The top 10 finalists will be chosen by an independent panel of community volunteers and leaders, and the national and international winners will receive $25,000 from Manulife Financial to donate to their charities of choice.

Nominator Christine Penner Polle, Red Lake, Ontario, says this of Cathy: “Cathy is unstinting in her commitment to alerting her community, and her country, about the dangers of climate change while there is still time to make a difference. She makes the connections between climate change and how we live, including the food we eat, the way we get around, and the kind of communities we live in, and she devotes time and energy to various local groups promoting sustainability. Cathy cares passionately about the future that her daughters, and all children will inherit.”

To read the rest of Cathy’s nomination, click here.

Let’s Talk Science activity featured in Journal of Chemical Education

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A chemistry activity developed by Let’s Talk Science volunteers at Dalhousie University was recently featured on the September 2010 cover of the Journal of Chemical Education.

Yuen-ying Carpenter, Heather Phillips and Michael Jakubinek submitted an article to the journal that describes how an undergraduate iodine clock reaction experiment could be easily modified to make it exciting and accessible for Grade 9 students.

To read the synopsis of the article, and to see the cover image, click here.

Volunteer recongized with National CIHR-Synapse Award

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Natalie Andrews, a 23-year-old Master's student at the University of Ottawa and Let's Talk Science volunteer, has recently been recognized with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Synapse Award for her interactive cancer lab tour for high school students at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Cancer Centre.

Natalie was recognized earlier this year with the Let's Talk Science CIHR-Synapse Award open only to Let's Talk Science volunteers. To read the story, click here.