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Kate Stewart is currently doing her PhD with Professor Penlidis.  She received two awards for her research work at two different conferences.  One was for the best poster (one of three out of over 65 posters) at the prestigious Polymer Reaction Engineering Conference IX in Cancun, Mexico (May 10-15, 2015).  The other was 2^nd place overall (out of 60+ posters) in the poster competition at the Annual AU

Congratulations to this year’s recipient of the Certificate in University Teaching Award, Marzieh Riahinezhad (IPR member and Chemical Engineering student)! Marzieh is a PhD student with Professors Alex Penlidis and Neil McManus.  Follow link for more details. 

Professor Costas Tzoganakis is the recipient of the 2015 Heinz List Award for “Significant Achievements in Polymer Devolatilization and Reactive Processing.”  His research on numerous reactive systems using screw extruders was recognized with this award from the Extrusion Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) during the 2015 Annual Technical Conference (ANTEC) in Orlando, Florida.

Professor Boxin Zhoa, academic member of the IPR, is developing a glue that may one day be used to engineer human tissues and organs.  Read the complete story: Zebra mussel is inspiration for human body super glue.

Pouyan Sardashti (PhD, Chemical Engineering, Feb 2014) receives the prestigious international ‘2014 Borealis Student Innovation Award’.

For more details, see…  Borealis Award

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?"

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Institute for Polymer Research academic member, Prof. James Forrest was recently featured on the University of Waterloo’s website. His latest research discovery involving glassy polymers and nanomaterials was published in the prestigious journal Science. Follow link for the full article.

Institute for Polymer Research member, Professor Boxin Zhao was recently featured on the University of Waterloo's website highlighting his latest Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) collaboration in developing nano-glue for electronics. Follow link for the full article.