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Chemical Engineering PhD students Hadi Izadi, Katherine Stewart, and Professor Alexander Penlidis, explain how dry adhesion works in a recent pioneering article in J. Roy. Soc. Interface. For more details, please check:

"How does dry adhesion work?"

Congratulations to three of our Graduate Students:

Adam Westbrook and Eric Blondeel for receiving the Murray Moo-Young Award.

Michael Pyne for receiving the Park and Veva Reilly Chemical Engineering Medal for Proficiency in Research.

The first edition of the Chemical Engineering newsletter “The DISTILLATE” has been posted on the website, and announced via e-mail to all Chemical Engineering Alumni.  It is presented in what’s referred to as “Flipping Book” format, where the publication functions as an "open book" whereby the reader can simply flip the pa

Prof. Hector Budman has been awarded the  2014 D.G. Fisher Award that is presented to a Canadian resident by the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Suncor Energy Foundation and Shell Canada Limited for major contributions in the field of systems and control engineering.

Professor Marc Aucoin's student Eric Blondeel (PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering) and Moufeed Kaddoura (4A Microbiology) venture is revolutionizing the practice of allergy testing with a non-invasive skin patch for simple safe and certain allergy detection.  The standard allergy test attempts to cause an allergic reaction in a patient by piercing known allergens through the skin with needles.

Tyromer Inc., a University of Waterloo start-up founded by Chemical Engineering professor Costas Tzoganakis, has just won one of the top 50 entrepreneurial awards (screened from more than 2800 companies from 27 countries) at TiEcon 2014 in San Jose, CA.

PhD student Drew Higgins has been named the recipient of the 2013 Electrochemical Society (ECS) Canadian Section Student Award for his research on nanostructured fuel cell and battery electrode materials, carried out under the supervision of Prof. Zhongwei Chen.