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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Chemical Engineering PhD Student Kate Stewart Receives poster Awards for Two Conferences

Kate Stewart is currently working on her PhD with Professor Penlidis. She received two awards for her research work a two different conferences.  One was for the best poster (one of three out of over 65 posters) at the prestigious Polymer Reaction Engineering Conference IX in Cancun, Mexico (May 10-15, 2015).  The other was 2nd place overall (out of 60+ posters) in the poster competition at the Annual AUTO21 conference in Ottawa, ON (May 26-27, 2015).

Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Biomedical Discusson Group Lecture and Seminar - Department of Chemical Engineering and Co-Sponsored by the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB)

"Mussel Power:  Defining the Essentials for Translation to Technology" by Dr. J. Herbert Waite, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, Departments of Molecular Cell, Developmental Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 11:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar- “Hierarchically Structured Fuel Cell Catalysts: Materials Derived by Sacrificial Support Method (SSM)” by Plamen Atanassov, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

ABSTRACT:  Nano-structured and hierarchically structured materials play a vital role in electrochemical power source technologies: batteries, super capacitors and fuel cells.  They are becoming increasingly important in electrochemical synthesis technologies such as electrolysis, photolysis, CO2 electro-reduction and production of value added chemicals.

Monday, July 13, 2015 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar - “Prussian Blue-Based Adsorbent for Drinking Water Production in Radio Contaminated Area” by Duu-Jong Lee, National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

ABSTRACT:  Radiocesium (Cs) removal from tap waters was an emerging issue after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster, during which a total of approximately 3.3×1016 Bq Cs was released to the environment. Radioactive fallout can lead to contaminated surface water and/or groundwater, eventually will enter drinking water production chain. Radioactivity in drinking water, even at low levels, can be harmful since the radiocesium can be bioaccumulated in body.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Lydia Terisno is the Engineering Alumni Gold Medal - 2015 Winner

The winner for the June 2015 Convocation is Lydia Terisno, a graduate from the Chemical Engineering program with an outstanding academic record.

Lydia has maintained an academic standing of "Excellent" throughout her academic terms and has achieved high grades in some of her courses.  She consistently ranked as one of the top students in her class. Ms Terisno has remained the Dean's Honour list for her entire undergraduate career and will graduate top of her class.