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Our work highlighted by the department: Chemical engineers tackle COVID-19

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Some of our COVID-19 RESEARCH: Highlight from CTV News

Congratulations to David for having his work on imaging starch by helium ion microscopy, "Helium ion microscopy of corn starch", accepted in the journal Starch.

Congratulations to Sadru whose work with the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has just been published: Testing the Effect of Faucet Flowrate on Handwashing Efficacy

Congratulations to Sadru whose review on methods for assessing viral inactivation by surfaces, "A Critical Evaluation of Current Protocols for Self-Sterilizing Surfaces Designed to Reduce Viral Nosocomial Infections" has been published in the American Journal of Infection Control

Welcome to Faranak who joined us as a post-doctoral fellow to work on moving the Vero platform to suspension culture!

Congratulations to Megan whose long term collaboration with Professor Ting Tsui has resulted in another publication: "Limitation in controlling the morphology of mammalian Vero cells induced by cell division on asymmetric tungsten-silicon oxide nanocomposite" - in press in Material, an Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) journal.

Congratulations to Scott Boegel, whose MASc thesis "Towards a Chemically Defined Medium for Sf-9 Cell Culture: Micronutrients Reduce Depence on Yeast Extract" has been accepted!

I'm excited to say that I just finished teaching the first offering of Chemical Engineering Design Studio 1 (ChE180) and I had a blast! A big thank you goes out to all of those who helped make this course such a success!