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The Queen Strikes Again!

Professor Milica Radisic will be presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal on February 28, 2013. She is the fifth member of our Department to be recognized with this honour. The four other members are: Levente Diosady, Don Mackay, Jane Phillips and Molly Shoichet.

February 5, 2013

Volume 30, Issue 4

In this issue:

Grad Office
Notices
Chem Eng Events

Grad Office

Deadlines

February 8: Application deadline for Chem Eng Departmental Graduate Awards
February 15: Application deadline for the Scotiabank Ecoliving Award and the Weston Travel Award for Doctoral Students
February 25: Final date to drop full-year or Winter session graduate (1000-level) courses without academic penalty
March 10: Final date to drop full-year or Winter session '500-level' courses without academic penalty
March 20: OGS application deadline for Visa Students
March 22: OGS application deadline for Domestic (Canadian Citizen and Permanent Resident) Students

Ph.D Reading Committee Meetings

Ph.D. Reading Committee Meeting – Z. Wang
Date of Meeting: Friday, February 8, 2013 in WB115 at 10:00 am
Research Topic: SURFACTANT-COATED IRON NANOPARTICLE SUSPENSIONS
Committee: Chair: Prof. R. Newman; Supervisor: Prof. E. J. Acosta; Other Member(s): Prof. B. Sleep

Ph.D. Reading Committee Meeting – S. Hussain
Date of Meeting: Thursday, February 7, 2013 in BA2110B at 3:00 pm
Research Topic: NATURAL-FIBRE REINFORCED POLYURETHANE FOAM
Committee: Chair: Prof. N. Yan; Supervisor: Prof. M. T. Kortschot; Other Member(s): Prof. G. Hibbard, Prof. Chandra Veer Singh

Ph.D. Reading Committee Meeting – B. Bradley
Date of Meeting: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 in WB115 at 2:00 pm
Research Topic: A SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND OPERATION RESEARCH APPROACH TO OPTIMIZING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ALLOCATION FOR LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF MEDICAL OXYGEN FOR CHILDHOOD PNEUMONIA IN THE GAMBIA
Committee: Chair: Prof. Y-L. Cheng (acting Chair); Supervisor: Prof. J. Stein; Other Member(s): Prof. T. Chan, Prof. J. Orbinski, Prof. J. Paradi

Notices

Announcements

CEGSA Chinese New Year Lunch
On Friday, February 8, CEGSA will be serving a delicious all-you-can-eat lunch in the Grad Common Room (WB247) from 12-2pm! Join them in celebrating the Year of the Snake for only $2/person! Also, save February 15 in your calendars. CEGSA will be hosting a Fiesta Night on that day. More details to follow.

Acting Chair
Graeme Norval will serve as Acting Chair this afternoon and all day February 6.

CEEA Conference: Call for Papers
The students Program in this year's Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Conference is very ambitious! Graduate and undergraduate students who submit abstracts on engineering education (deadline February 14) will receive registration discounts and be considered for award prizes. Please help spread the word. For more info, click here.

Chem Eng Events

Click here for the Chem Eng Calendar

February 6, 2013 - LLE: Tim Jones, The University of Warwick, Organic Thin Film Solar Cells, WB116 12:30-2pm

March 6, 2013 - LLE: James Rawlins, The University of Southern Mississippi, Bio Mass Utilization for Advanced Materials, WB116, 12:30-2pm

March 13, 2013 - LLE: Charles Haynes, University of British Columbia, Enhanced Technologies for Cancer Diagnostics Utilizing Sugar and Base-Modified Nucleic Acid Analogs, WB116 12:30-2pm

March 22, 2013 - 28th Annual Chemical Engineering Dinner: 89 Chestnut Street Residence, 6-10pm. Register online before March 4, 2013.

March 27, 2013 - LLE: Joachim Kohn, Rutgers University, Biomaterials Discovery: Combinatorial Methods, Rapid Collection and Computational Modeling, WB116 12:30-2pm

April 3, 2013 - LLE: David Graves, University of California at Berkeley, Biomedical Applications of Ambient Gas Plasma: The Confluence of Redox Biology and Plasma Science, WB116, 12:30-2pm

April 10, 2013 - LLE: R. Paul Singh, University of California at Davis, Human Stomach: The Ultimate Food Processor, WB116, 12:30-2pm

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