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Announcements
 Welcome Larry Louisy
This month Larry Louisy joined our Department as our new Deskside Support Technician. Larry is alumnus from U of T with expensive IT experience in the financial sector. He is excited to be back at U of T and to work alongside everyone in the Department. Larry can be reached at larry.louisy@utoronto.ca or 416-978-1144. Feel free to pop by WB260 to welcome Larry. The IT Office hosts office hours from 11am to 12pm, Monday through Friday.
Acting Chair
Prof. Tim Bender will serve as Acting Chair from Tuesday, March 5 to Tuesday, March 12 (inclusive).
Artificial lung cancer tissue could help find new drug treatments
A 3D hydrogel created by researchers in University Professor Molly Shoichet’s lab is helping University of Ottawa researchers to quickly screen hundreds of potential drugs for their ability to fight highly invasive cancers. Read more.
Water conference early-bird registration closes TODAY!
U of T Engineering is a proud sponsor of the 9th International Young Water Professionals Conference, which builds on eight previous successful events around the world: UK, Netherlands, Singapore, USA, Australia, Hungary, Taiwan, and South Africa. The conference's multi-disciplinary program aims to empower and assist young professionals in their careers by providing them with excellent networking opportunities that will help them develop professionally and gain recognition for their contributions. Early-bird registration is now open and closes TODAY. Register now to save!
Free OUP Lunch and Learn on Fri, Mar 8
IPO will be hosting a free OSAGE University Partners (OUP) Lunch and Learn on Friday, March 8 from 11:30am to 1pm. The session will take place in Suite 150 of 100 College Street. OUP is the largest investor in deep technology companies coming out of university research. Their members are top universities across the US and Canada and beyond; U of T is a member. Kirsten Leute will be speaking on fair and reasonable IP access terms based on her 20 years experience at Stanford’s tech transfer office. David Dorsey will be speaking about what a university-based start up needs to demonstrate to become investible by OUP. To register, visit uoftstartup.eventbrite.ca
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March 1, 2019
Volume 36, Issue 7
In this issue:
Grad Office
Chem Eng Events
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Poster competition: abstract deadline is TODAY!
MASc/PhD students, the deadline to submit an abstract for the poster competition (part of the 3rd annual ChemE Exhibition) is on TODAY! To submit, visit https://chem-eng.utoronto.ca/call-for-abstracts-2019/ at your earliest convenience.
Departmental Graduate Awards
Various awards are listed on the Departmental Graduate Awards page. Please check the page for upcoming deadlines.
PhD Qualifying Examination – Jose L. Cadavid Cardenas
Date of Meeting: Tuesday, March 5
Start Time: 12pm
Location (Building and Room): WB215
PhD Qualification Examination Committee Membership:
Chair: Prof. M. Shoichet
Supervisor: Prof. A. McGuigan
Other Member(s): Prof. R. Mahadevan, Prof. B. Wouters (Medical Biophysics
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - LLE: Ian Gilmore, National Physical Laboratory, UK, co-hosted with OCAAM, Metabolic imaging at the single-cell scale - recent advances and future challenges in mass spectrometry imaging, WB116 from 12-1pm
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - LLE: Alfred Spormann, Stanford, Microbial Electrosynthesis for a Carbon-neutral Energy and Chemicals Economy, WB116 from 12-1pm
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 3rd annual ChemE Exhibition & 34th ChemE Dinner: all events will take place at 89 Chestnut Street Residence, 4-9:30pm
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - LLE: Jennifer Case, Virginia Tech (Education Lecture and Seminar), co-hosted with ISTEP, Going beyond the fads and jargon: What does research tell us about teaching for high quality learning in science and engineering?, WB116 from 12-1pm
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