Guest speaker Can Li from the Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy will present a talk on "Homogeneous Catalysis in Heterogeneous Nanoreactors".
On Tuesday, May 15th 2012, Professor Guillaume Wantz from Bordeaux Institute of Technology, France, will deliver a lecture titled "Organic Photovoltaic Research at Bordeaux University: A Focus on Advanced Materials for Efficient and Stable Solar Cells". This lecture is free and open to the public!
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Guest speaker Ahmad Ismail from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia will speak on the topic of "Refinery Produced Wastewater Treatment Using Submerged Ultrafiltration Membranes."
On Tuesday, April 17th, 2012, Professor Mark W. Matsen from UK's University of Reading, will deliver a lecture titled "Ultra-low friction between surfaces coated with polyelectrolyte brushes". This lecture is free and open to the public!
On Tuesday, April 3, the University of Waterloo's Baja SAE design team unveiled their 2012 all-terrain vehicle in Engineering's Student Design Centre. Designed over the Spring and Fall 2011 school terms and constructed between January and March, the car will take part in a competition in Portland, Oregon, from May 2-5, 2012.
Dr. Hamid Firooz (winner of the Park Reilly Medal) will present his research on "Surface Tension and Adsorption Kinetics of Volatile Organic Amphiphiles in Aqueous Solution".
Guest speaker - Dr. Timothy Bender (University of Toronto) will speak on the topic of "Crystal Engineering of Boronsubphthalocyanine for Organic Electronic Applications".
On Thursday, April 12th, 2012, Professor Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy from the University of Miami, will deliver a lecture titled "Chemistry in a Nanocapsule: Controlling excited state processes through confinement and weak interactions". This lecture is free and open to the public!
For the second year in a row three of the four graduate students to win the university's exceptional teaching award are from Waterloo Engineering. Arash Shahi of civil and environmental engineering, Andrea Murphy, of the School of Architecture, and Hamed Shateri of mechanical and mechatronics engineering will receive the Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student at spring convocation in June. The other winner is Keith Delaney of earth and environmental sciences. [DB article]