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News and Annoucements

Graduate Research Days / Industry Open House is Approaching!

We are still looking for current grad students to help us out with GRD/IOH on Friday, February 19. There's still time to become a volunteer! Simply visit http://www.chem-eng.utoronto.ca/volunteering-for-grd-and-ioh/ and fill out the form by Tuesday, February 16. One of our CEGSA co-chairs will then contact you with more details.

Molly Shoichet Elected Foreign Member of NAE

University Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME) has been elected as a Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Read full story.

New CRCs

This week seven researchers from across U of T’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have received significant federal support for their research with new or renewed Canada Research Chairs. Among this group of seven are Professors Cathy Chin and Elodie Passeport. Read full story.

Women Shaping the Future of Engineering

Yesterday, in celebration of the first International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Faculty posted a story on eight U of T Engineering professors — all appointed in recent years — that are creating innovative solutions in bioengineering, sustainability, communications and enabling technologies. The story included profiles on two ChemE professors, Gisele Azimi and Elodie Passeport. Read full story.

February 12, 2016

Volume 33, Issue 6

In this issue:

Grad Office
Research Publications
Events

Grad Office

How to Become and Outstanding Graduate Student Seminar

*Mandatory seminars for MASc and PhD Students who started in September 2015 or January 2016.

Topic: Strategies and Tools for Research Management
Presenter: Prof. A. McGuigan
Date: Wednesday, February 17
Seminar will be held at 12:30pm
Location: WB342

PhD Reading Committee Meeting – Po Hsiang Wang

Date of Meeting: Thursday, February 18
Start Time: 3pm
Location (Building and Room): TBA
Reading Committee Membership
Supervisor: Prof. E. A. Edwards; Chair: Prof. E. Master; Other Member: Prof. A. Yakunin

PhD Reading Committee Meeting – Dylan Valleau

Date of Meeting: Friday, February 19
Start Time: 3pm
Location (Building and Room): BA8227
Reading Committee Membership
Supervisor: Prof. A. Savchenko; Chair: Prof. A. Yakunin; Other Member: Prof. A. Ensminger (Molecular Genetics )

Research Publications

Bitterfeld amber is not Baltic amber: Three geochemical tests and further constraints on the botanical affinities of succinate
Wolfe, A.P., McKellar, R.C., Tappert, R., Sodhi, R.N.S., Muehlenbachs, K.
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 2016, 225 pp. 21 - 32.

Effects of thermal pre-treatment and ore dryness on the recovery of lanthanides from ion-adsorption clays
Moldoveanu, G.A., Papangelakis, V.G.
Hydrometallurgy 2015, 158 pp. 180 - 185.

Ferric sulfate leaching of pyrrhotite tailings between 30 to 55 °C
Samadifard, N., Devine, C.E., Edwards, E., Mahadevan, K., Papangelakis, V.G.
Minerals 2015, Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 801-814.

Charge carrier mobility of siliconized liquid triarylamine organic semiconductors by time-of-flight spectroscopy
Plint, T.G., Kamino, B.A., Bender, T.P.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2015 , 119 ( 4 ) pp. 1676 - 1682.

Events

Click here for the Chem Eng Calendar

Thursday, February 18, 2016 to Saturday, February 20, 2016 - Graduate Research Days (GRD), Poster Session on Friday, February 19, 9:45am-12:30pm, Great Hall, Hart House.

Friday, February 19, 2016 - Industry Open House (IOH), 9am-1pm, East Common Room and Great Hall, Hart House

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - LLE, Research in an Industrial Catalysis World: A Lifelong Adventure, Stuart Soled, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co., 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - LLE, Bioconversion of Methane by Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria, Mary Lidstrom, University of Washington, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - LLE, 2015 AEESP Distinguished Lecturer, The Interplay Between Chemicals and Microbiomes; An Environmental Biotechnology Perspective, Nancy Love, University of Michigan, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - LLE, Making the Environment Part of the Next Generation of Urban Water Infrastructure, David Sedlak, University of California, Berkeley, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - LLE, Thermodynamics in Cryobiology: How Math Can Save Knees, Janet Elliott, University of Alberta, 12:30-2pm, WB116

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