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Congratulations to recent NE grads, Alisha Bhanji, Holden Beggs, Fernando Pena Cantu, Zhenle Cao and Ishan Mishra, for their runner-up prize in the Canadian leg of the James Dyson Award competition for student inventors.

With this win, the team moves on to the International level of competition for the prestigious award.

A biotechnology company co-founded by a Nanotechnology Engineering alumnus has been awarded almost $300,000 in government funding to develop a portable diagnostic test for COVID-19.

Nicoya, a Kitchener-based provider of advanced analytical instruments for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, grew out of a Capstone Design project by nanotechnology engineering student Ryan Denomme (BASc ’10, MASc ’12).