“Chemistry is a booming field of new discoveries. New chemicals are being discovered or engineered to meet the needs of the medical and pharmaceutical industries”, says Rajesh Sunasee, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Cape Breton University. This comes as a bit of a surprise to me. I had guessed that chemistry arrived at the summit of its development with the advent of the Periodic Table. “I am both a passionate teacher and a researcher”, explains Sunasee, who is spending