In the News

Professors Receive RTI Grants

Professors Cathy Chin and Molly Shoichet were recently announced as recipients of NSERC's Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) grants. RTIs foster and enhance the discovery, innovation and training capability of university researchers in the natural sciences and engineering by supporting the purchase of research equipment and installations.

Professor Wins NAMF Early Career Excellence Award in Mixing

Professor Arun Ramchandran was recently selected as the recipient of the North American Mixing Forum (NAMF) Early Career Excellence Award in Mixing. For the next two years, he will receive $15,000 USD for his research. Professor Ramchandran will also attend the Mixing Conferences in 2014 and 2016.

Three Students Win Gordon Cressy Awards

Three fourth year students from our department (Albert Huynh, Ajay Kochhar and Arjang Tajbakhsh) have won Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards. The award was established in 1994 by the University of Toronto Alumni Association (UTAA) and the Division of University Advancement to recognize students who have made outstanding extra-curricular contributions to their college, faculty or school, or to the university as a whole.

Students Excel in Food Engineering

Students from Food Engineering (CHE462), led by Adjunct Professor J. Joseph Yun recently competed in the Ontario Food Protection Associations (OFPA) Food Engineering Award presentations. Earlier this semester, five of our students were recognized with Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) awards. Read more.

April 5, 2013

In this issue:

Grad Office
Notices
Chem Eng Events

Grad Office

Notices

28th Annual Chemical Engineering Dinner

The 28th Annual Chemical Engineering Dinner held on Friday, March 22 gathered together 420 students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends. To view pictures from the event, click here.

Special Lecture

On Wednesday, April 17 from 3-4pm in room 106 of the Health Science Building located at 155 College Street, Dr. Danica Stanimirovic of the National Research Council of Canada will present Domain Antibodies: Building Blocks for Brain-targeting Imaging Agents and Therapeutics. Click here for more info.

Run for the Earth 5k Run

The 1st annual Run for the Earth 5K Run along Toronto’s waterfront on Saturday, April 13 will be a unique, lively and colourful event in which runners will wear creative costumes made of borrowed, salvaged, or repurposed materials – or just their favourite tasteful underwear – to attract attention to the issue of overconsumption. For more info, click here.

Celebrating Engineering Excellence

Dean Cristina Amon invites all faculty and staff to attend the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering's 6th annual Celebrating Engineering Excellence Reception on Wednesday April 24, 4-6pm in GB202, to recognize the recipients of major honours, awards and research grants, celebrate all your successes, and look back on another outstanding academic year. This reception will feature the presentation of the Faculty's staff, research and teaching awards. RSVP by email to reception.engineering@ecf.utoronto.ca by Wednesday, April 17.

Global Health Symposium

IBBME will be hosting a one-day Global Health Symposium on Monday, April 22. For more info, click here.

Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day

On Thursday April 25, 2013 you are invited to bring your daughters and sons, currently in grades 4 to 7, to work! For more information and a list of available tours, please visit http://u! oft.me/tdswd. To register online, go to http://uoft.me/tdswd and select the registration link.

The Engineering Outreach Office and the Engineering Student Recruitment Office will host your kids from 2-4pm in GB202 for some age appropriate and thought-provoking fun. Please email Kirstin at engineering@ecf.utoronto.ca if you would like to join. Please give your name, department, name of your child/ren, and age of the child/ren.

Eco-Tec is Hiring

Eco-Tec, a company that manufactures innovative products and solutions related to industrial water and chemical treatment systems, is hiring for the following positions: Regional Sales Manager - Asia and Supervisor, Technical Services. Interested candidates are asked to send their resumes to careers@eco-tec.com quoting job #701-RSMA for the Regioal Sales Manager - Asia position or job # 605-STS for the Supervisor, Technical Services position.

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