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News and Annoucements

LLE nominations

If you have a speaker nomination for LLE, please send your completed nomination form to external.chemeng@utoronto.ca by 5pm today.

Alumna wins prestigious community service award

Engineers Canada has announced this year’s nine winners of the annual Engineers Canada Awards. Marisa Sterling (9T1) is the 2016 recipient of the Meritorious Service Award for Community Service. Sponsored by TD, Manulife, Great-West Life and ENCON Group Inc., the Engineers Canada Awards recognize engineering excellence and the winners’ outstanding contributions to their community, profession and to the safety and well-being of Canadians.

Using tree bark to treat anaemia

Oluwasegun Modupe, a PhD student supervised by Professor Levente Diosady, recently co-published a paper entitled, Optimizing dose of aqueous extract of Mangifera indica L stem bark for treating anaemia and its effect on some disaccharidases activity in iron deficient weanling rats, in the Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary Metabolism, Volume 3, March 2016, Pages 18-22, ISSN 2352-3859.

Reminder: Mark your calendars for GRD/IOH 2017

The date for GRD/IOH 2017 has been set for Friday, February 24, 2017. This year, 27 professors attended GRD/IOH 2016 and 75 grad students participate as volunteers. Let's beat these numbers for next year!

Reminder: Spring cleaning ... of web profiles

Now that courses are winding down and spring is in the air, let's take some time to tidy up our website. To all professors with www.chem-eng.utoronto.ca profile pages, please send updates to jennifer.hsu@utoronto.ca before the new school year begins.

April 15, 2016

Volume 33, Issue 13

In this issue:

Grad Office
Events

Grad Office

MASc DEPARTMENTAL ORAL - Yarden Gratch

Date of Meeting: Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Start Time: 02:00 pm Location (Building and Room): WB 215
Thesis Title: THE CREATION OF FUNCTIONAL PSEUDOISLETS USING MODULAR TISSUE ENGINEERING
MASc Departmental Oral Examination Committee Membership
Supervisor: Prof. M. V. Sefton; Chair: Prof. A. McGuigan; Other Member: Prof. D. Noone (Department of Paediatrics)

Sessional deadlines

For important deadline dates, visit http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/currentstudents/Pages/Sessional-Dates.aspx

Events

Click here for the Chem Eng Calendar

Thursday, May 12, 2016 - OCCAM's Offical Grand Opening, 8:30am-6:00pm, WB116 (by invite, registration required)

Wednesday, June 8, 2016 - Spring Convocation & Lunch, 10am-12pm Convocation Hall, 12-2pm Sir Howard Ferguson Dining Hall, UC (registration available soon)

Friday, June 17, 2016 - IWI & BioZone Industry-Academic Workshop, details in the works (registration available soon)

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