Chemclub held its annual networking event on Thursday, March 12 this year, beginning with a booth session in the Davenport Atrium where students met meet representatives from various organisations, including the CIC, the Acceleration Consortium, and U of T's Centre for Entrepreneurship.
The booth session was followed by a career panel where students heard industry professionals share their wisdom and insights into their career. A social networking session came next, with students and pros mingling at the Sin and Redemption Pub on McCaul Street.
Panelists for this year's networking event included:
- Darren Anderson, PhD, Co-founder and CEO of Vive Crop Protection
- Hugo Bohórquez, PhD, senior research scientist, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- Kareem Abdur-Rashid, MSc, Founder and COO, Kare Chemical Technologies
- Sharon Chen, PhD, Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada
- Nina-Francesca Farac, PhD, Project Drawdown
- Patricia Folkins, PHD, Smarter & Bigger LP, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
ChemClub is a student organization that seeks to represent the interests of chemistry graduate students at the University of Toronto. In addition to hosting social, arts & cultural, and professional development events throughout the year, they maintain a list of chemistry tutors and operate the ChemClub store located in the Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories building, serving as a one-stop shop for undergraduate lab materials.