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Pouyan Sardashti Borealis Award 2014

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Congratulations to Gregory Lui for receiving the AECOM Graduate Scholarship ($5000) in Water Research from the Water Institute! He is one of five graduate students at the University of Waterloo to receive an annual scholarship for water-related research. Gregory is a PhD student whose research involves synthesizing novel photocatalytic materials that can be used in renewable waste-water remediation and hydrogen fuel production.

Congratulations to the uwDNA team for their Bronze Medal at the 2014 BIOMOD competition held at Harvard University.

Congratulations to the UW iGEM team for their Gold Medal and Best Model Prize  at the 2014 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The fourth-year design project group and start-up company Suncayr has been awarded the international runners-up prize in the James Dyson award competition. Their product is a color changing marker pen, full of UV responsive ink, that the user draws on their skin. When UV light hits the ink, it changes color – letting the user know that they need to reapply their sunscreen. They are the highest achieving Canadian entrant in history of this competition.

Drew Higgins, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the Grand Prize for the 2014 Dr. Bernard S. Baker Student Researcher Award for Fuel Cell Research. The purpose of this award is to encourage and recognize exceptional student research relating to fuel cell technologies.

The Sandford Fleming Foundation Award Winners 2013/2014 have been awarded to Adelle Vickery, Chemical Engineering and Debbie Xinyu Wu, Nano Technology Engineering.

Free Public Lecture and Expert Panel - The Science Behind Ebola

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?"

Professor M. Aucoin's PhD student, Eric Blondeel has won an award for the Velocity Venture Fund.

Eric Blondeel's company ExVivo Labs just won the $25k pitch award for the Velocity Venture Fund.

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