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A Waterloo Engineering researcher has received an E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for his work in developing new materials that make batteries and fuel cells smaller, lighter and longer lasting.

Garry Rempel, University of Waterloo Chemical Engineering professor, was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada. He received his Order of Canada from his Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston in a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on February 12, 2016.

The 2015-2016 Murray Moo-Young Biotechnology Scholarship has been awarded to two Chemical Engineering students: Brandon Seo, a MASc student who is being supervised by Professor Ting Tsui, and Adam Westbrook, a PhD student who is being supervised by Professor Perry Chou.

The Murray Moo-Young Biotechnology Scholarship was established in 1982 with a donation by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Murray Moo-Young to encourage research of bioprocessing strategies in industrial biomanufacturing and environmental bioremediation.

We are pleased to introduce Professor Evelyn Yim to the Department of Chemical Engineering. Her research interests include nanofabrication technologies and stem cell culture. Evelyn’s work on stem cells, nanofabrication and biomaterials supports the advancement of healthcare technologies to repair, replace or regenerate damaged tissue and organ structures.

Grand River Hospital (GRH) has formally activated its halogenated drug recovery (HDR) system, developed through a research initiative lead by Bill Anderson, professor of chemical engineering, and Class 1 Inc. of Cambridge. This new technology will help battle climate change as it captures waste anesthetic gases exhaled by patients undergoing surgery.

Marzieh Riahinezhad (PhD, Chemical Engineering, September 2015) received the international and extremely prestigious “Best Dissertation of the Year ADIPEC Award” in excellence in energy (November 2015). Marzieh’s PhD thesis was selected by an international scientific panel of 26 judges in the oil and gas industry as one of the top three best dissertations of 2015 in energy, worldwide.

Professor Michael Tam's article Schlumberger-Celluforce-Waterloo Design Competition on the use of Cellulose Nanocrystal (CNC) in the Iron Warrior

Alison Scott (BASc ‘13, MASc ‘15, Waterloo), a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the 2015 J. Alan George Leadership Award. This entrance award is offered to female PhD students who demonstrate outstanding leadership.

Professor Alexander Penlidis and graduate student Hadi Izadi (PhD 2014), started working on PhD project with the idea to fabricate "dry adhesives" mimicking the way geckos' feet can stick to surfaces. 

Research that Really Sticks

Institute for Polymer Research