News

We are pleased to announce we will be hosting the 2023 IPR Symposium in person, in E7 in 7303-7363. (For information of where to park please see map).

It will also be offered online for those who are unable to attend in person.(link will be provided closer to the date)

Our industrial speaker this year is Dr. Jason Dockendorff, a former student, who is now working for 3M. Our academic speaker is a former member of the IPR, Mario Gauthier.

We have an exciting line up of student presenters. Our book of abstracts can be access via this link. Click here for the schedule.

To register for this event and for more information please contact Colleen Mechler (cmechler@uwaterloo.ca) or Jean Duhamel (jduhamel@uwaterloo.ca)

CONGRATULATIONS to PROFESSOR and IPR DIRECTOR JEAN DUHAMEL

Congratulations go to Professor and IPR Director, Jean Duhamel, for receiving the 2021 Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division (MSED) Award of the CIC (Chemical Institute of Canada). Well deserved, Jean!

We are happy to announce that since the IPR Symposium originally scheduled on May 6^th had to be cancelled due to Covid-19, and since we do not foresee the possibility of having large gatherings on the UW campus in the Fall term, we have decided to organize a virtual IPR Symposium in the afternoon of Wednesday, September 2^nd, 2020.

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of Prof. Kenneth O’Driscoll on August 4^th, 2020. Prof. O’Driscoll had a very successful career in Chemical Engineering, but he and Prof. Alfred Rudin (1924-2011) are remembered by the IPR community as the two founders of the IPR in 1978.

Due to the corona virus outbreak, the IPR Symposium has been postponed until further notice. Until then, stay safe and practice self-distancing!

IPR member Costas Tzoganakis and University of Waterloo startup Tyromer Inc. are poised to change the way the world handles its scrap tires.

Editor in Chief of Advance Materials, Peter Gregory, submitted a story highlighting Boxin Zhao's paper, "Thermally Active Liquid Crystal Network Gripper Mimicking the Self-Peeling of Gecko Toe Pads", which has quickly become one of the most read articles on the Advanced Science News website.

The IPR is proud to announce that Marzieh Riahinezhad, student member of the IPR, has received the prestigious Chemical Engineering Medal for proficiency in research. For the full story please follow link.

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.