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Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:00 pm - Friday, November 27, 2020 1:15 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Women Entrepreneurship Week (WEW) Speakers Series

Women's Entrepreneurship WeekThe Conrad School is hosting a Speakers' Series as part of the annual Women Entrepreneurship Week 2020 global awareness and celebration.

Join us virtually on any of the following dates and times:

Tuesday, November 24th, between 12:00 p.m. and 12:45 p.m.
Thursday, November 26th, between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Friday, November 27th, between 12:30 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Aiping Yu awarded NSERC’s Steacie Memorial Fellowship

The Department of Chemical Engineering’s Aiping Yu has been awarded a prestigious 2020 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship.

Each year, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) recognizes six highly promising early-stage researchers in the natural sciences and engineering with an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, in recognition of their efforts and to enhance their research capacity so that they can become leaders in their field and inspire others.

Ken O'Driscoll working in the Polymer Synthesis Lab, in the early eighties.
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Remembering Ken O’Driscoll, department chair and inspirational professor

Professor Emeritus Ken O’Driscoll passed away on August 4, 2020, at the age of 89.

O’Driscoll was an internationally respected polymer science researcher, a talented teacher, and a kind and inspirational mentor who worked in the Department of Chemical Engineering between 1970 and 1992. His research in polymerization kinetics and polymer synthesis and characterization influenced many products we know and still use today, including hydrophilic contact lenses (also known as ‘soft contact lenses’), which he developed in 1971.

Hult Prize 2021 Challenge, food for good
Thursday, October 29, 2020 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Hult Prize Waterloo 2021 Kick-Off

Hult Prize 2021 ChallengeGet ready for Hult 2021! It’s been a unique year so far but that doesn’t stop us from bringing you the Hult Prize, a social entrepreneurship competition which challenges student teams around the globe to develop sustainable social ventures to address the world's most pressing issues—with a global grand prize of $1 million USD! Please register to join us at our Kick-Off event.

Thursday, November 12, 2020 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Park and Veva Reilly Distinguished Webinar | Design of Polymeric Materials: Novel Functionalized Polymers for Enhanced Oil Recovery and Gas Sorption Applications, by Professor Alison Scott

Please join us to hear a webinar by Professor Alison Scott (PhD ‘19), winner of the 2020 Park and Veva Reilly ChE Medal for Proficiency in Research. She will discuss her work on a general framework for the design of polymeric materials, which maximizes experimental resources and optimizes the resulting polymer product’s suitability for its intended application. Professor Scott will discuss two distinct (yet related) case studies to demonstrate that the framework can be useful in many industries and applications and for any type of polymeric material.