Margaret-Ann Armour

Armour was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 6 September 1939, She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of John Cadogan. ==Career==

In 1979, Armour joined the University of Alberta's Department of Chemistry, where she was one of the few female professors in the university's Faculty of Science. Armour supervised undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory courses. WISEST's efforts have been recognized by various awards, including a Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion (1994), the Royal Society of Canada's McNeil Medal, and Alberta Science and Technology Awards Foundation's Excellence in Science and Technology Public Awareness Prize (1996). Armour served as the assistant chair of the Department of Chemistry (1989–2005) before assuming the role of the University of Alberta's Associate Dean of Science for Diversity in 2005. Armour is the first and only person to serve as the Associate Dean of Science for Diversity in the university. Among her many awards, she has notably been recognized as a 3M Teaching Fellow (1996), one of the 100 Edmontonians of the Century and a Canada 150 ambassador by the Government of Canada in 2017. Armour has previously been recognized in Maclean's Ten Canadians Making a Difference list (2003), in the ''Who's Who of Canadian Women 1999–2000'' book, and twice in Women's Executive Network's Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada. She has received honorary degrees from multiple universities, including the University of British Columbia, the University of Edinburgh, MacEwan University, and Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. The school has since exceeded capacity. In addition, the University of Alberta's Working for Inclusivity in Chemistry group has launched a student-led speaker series in her name (Margaret-Ann Armour Lecture Series). Armour died, aged 79, on 25 May 2019. One day before her death, Armour received an honorary degree from the Concordia University of Edmonton. ==Selected awards==

• University of Alberta's Academic Women's Award (1995) • Maclean's Ten Canadians Making a Difference list (2003) • Women's Executive Network's Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada • American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences (2004) • University of Alberta Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award (2004) • Edmontonian of the Century • Chemical Institute of Canada's Montreal Medal • Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case • Order of Canada (2006) • Canada 150 ambassador by the Government of Canada (2017) ==Selected bibliography==

• Margaret-Ann Armour. Chemical waste management and disposal. Journal of Chemical Education. 1988. • Tadashi Hanaya, Akihiko Miyoshi, Ayashi Noguchi, Heizan Kawamoto, Margaret-Ann Armour, Alan M. Hogg, Hiroshi Yamamoto. A Convenient Synthesis of (2R)-1-Amino-1-Deoxy-1-Phosphinylglycerols. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 1990. • Tadashi Hanaya, Ryuji Okamoto, Yurij V. Prikhod'ko, Margaret-Ann Armour, Alan M. Hogg and Hiroshi Yamamoto . Synthesis of 6-deoxy-6-phenylphosphonoyl-D-fructopyranoses: the first phosphorus-in-the-ring analogues of a ketose. Journal of the Chemical Society. 1993. • Margaret-Ann Armour. Hazardous Laboratory Chemicals Disposal Guide. 2003. Book. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. . • MH Wong, MA Armour, R Naidu, M Man. Persistent toxic substances: Sources, fates and effects. 2012. Review. Reviews on Environmental Health. • Margaret-Ann Armour. Building on Success: Increasing the Percentage of Women Faculty in the Sciences. Proceedings of the 12th CCWESTT conference. 2008 • Madill, Helen M.; Campbell, Rachel G.; Cullen, Dallas M.; Armour, Margaret-Ann; Einsiedel, Albert A.; Ciccocioppo, Anna-Lisa; Sherman, Jody; Stewin, Leonard L.; Varnhagen, Stanley; Montgomerie, T. Craig; Rothwell, Cynthia J.; Coffin, Wendy L.. Developing career commitment in STEM-related fields: myth versus reality. Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Upping the Numbers. Edited by Ronald J. Burke, Mary C. Mattis and Edward Elgar. . Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., Northampton, MA, USA, 2007, p. 210. ==References==