Following the break, Nola Etkin, MCIC, from the University of Prince Edward Island presented the results of her recent endeavors in 'New Amino Acid-Derived Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization' Introducing a quite different aspect of catalysis research, Steve Bearne, MCIC, from the department of biochemistry at Dalhousie University ended the session with his lecture, 'Enzyme Catalysis: Thermodynamics of Transition State Stabilization', in which he described his work on the enzyme
mandelate racemase.