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• 1st Place in Catalysis Category: Boyu Li, "Kinetic Performance of Iron Doped Ceria Catalyst for Soot Oxidation” (supervised by Prof. E. Croiset)
• 1st Place in Macromolecular Science Category: Yun-Seok Jun, “Highly Conductive and Interconnected Graphene Foam Based Polymer Composite” (supervised by Prof. A. Yu)
• 2nd Place in Macromolecular Science Category:

For the 4^th year in a row, the team earned Gold Standing at the competition. This year they brought home the Best Poster prize!”

Paul Chen, a PhD candidate supervised by Prof. Frank Gu, has been awarded a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.  His research involves the application of gold nano-particles for detection and identification of pathogens that cause infectious disease.

The Reaxys PhD Prize recognizes young chemists conducting original and innovative research in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry. New Scientist Live,  

Prof. Zhongwei Chen has received $3 million in funding to further his work into greener, cheaper, more energy-efficient silicon-based batteries.

Chemical Engineering Drew Higgins, PhD wins the Canada's Distinguished Dissertation Award 2016 in the category of Engineering/Medical Science/Natural Science.

University of Waterloo chemical engineering professor Zhongwei Chen is one of the new cohort of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. The RSC has named the incoming 80 members of The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists on Sep 13^th, 2016. Those named to the College represent the emerging generation of scholarly, scientific and artistic leadership in Canada.