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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Gregory Lui receives the AECOM Graduate Scholarship

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.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Fourth Year Design Group receives international award from the James Dyson Foundation

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.

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Hadi Izadi, Katherine Stewart, and Professor Alexander Penlidis, Pioneering Article on "How dry adhesion works..."

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?"