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News and Annoucements

Tomorrow is the LAST DAY TO REGISTER for OCCAM's Official Grand Opening!

On Thursday, May 12, OCCAM will be hosting its Official Grand Opening between 8:30am to 6pm. Faculty members, staff and grad students are welcome to attend. Registration closes tomorrow! Don't miss out! To register or for more information (including schedule), visit http://www.chem-eng.utoronto.ca/occam-grand-opening/

Hidden talent of OCCAM researcher

During an annual celebration of Spring held earlier this week, OCCAM's Rana Sodhi helped spring start Spring through a traditional British dance. To watch Rana perform his hidden talent, click here. He will appear in the video at the 42-second mark.

Tripartite public health research collaboration

U of T, Utrecht University and Chinese University of Hong Kong have entered a five year partnership on global public health. The project, Novel Investigative Tools and Big-Data to discover modifiable risk factors: The Exposome, will be emphasized in the tripartite collaboration. This particular project involves researchers from several areas at U of T, including the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Engineering, Earth Sciences and other disciplines. One of the leaders of the project at U of T is Greg Evans who will be participating in a panel discussion on Friday, May 13 to launch the tripartite public health research collaboration. For details, click here.

Register for ChemE Spring Convocation activities by Mon, May 16!

Faculty and staff, don't forget to register for Spring Convocation activities you're interested in attending. You must do so before Monday, May 16 (this is a firm deadline for those wishing to participate in the procession). To register for Spring Convocation activities, refer to the email sent by Jen Hsu on Monday, May 2.

Special Seminar on Tue, May 24

Dr. Shawn C. Owen from the University of Utah's Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry will be giving a talk entitled, Building superior biologics: Enhancing ADCs, resurrecting ADEPT and replacing ELISA. The talk will take place in the Rosebrugh Building, Room 412 from 1-2pm on Tuesday, May 24. For more information, click here.

IWI Inaugural Industry-Academic Workshop

The Institute for Water Innovation (IWI) invites you to participate on Friday, June 17 in its inaugural Industry – Academic Workshop on Addressing Water Challenges in the Natural Resource Industries. The full-day event will be held in Alumni Hall of Victoria College located at 91 Charles Street West. For more information or to register, visit http://www.chem-eng.utoronto.ca/iwi_workshop/ or contact Mandeep Rayat at mandeep.rayat@utoronto.ca

May 5, 2016

Volume 33, Issue 16

In this issue:

Reminders
Events

Reminders

Safety training

The safety training for 2016 summer students are as follows:

Part II: On-line, to be completed prior to the in-person exam

Part III: In-person examination, Monday, May 09, WB116, 9-9:30am

As per University and Departmental guidelines, we are required to provide training to all personnel. If you have hired a summer student, please inform them of the date, location and time of the training program. It would be helpful if you could provide names of any summer students to Leticia Gutierrez through email for attendance and handout purposes. She can be reached at leticia.gutierrez@utoronto.ca

Students from our Department who have completed their fourth year AND ARE CONTINUING INTO GRADUATE SCHOOL in our Department do not have to attend this training session (their training for fourth-year thesis will suffice). However, they will need to attend CHE2222F in September 2016.

The training is compulsory for all other summer students/personnel, including those in volunteer positions and on co-op placements.

Outreach opportunity

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is hosting Rethink the Box on Wednesday, May 11. This outreach program encourages kids across Toronto to think like engineers and solve real-world problems. In teams, participants are given a challenge and a box of items to use for the challenge. The job of volunteers is to help participants work through their ideas and turn them into reality. The event runs from from 9am to 2pm at Don Mills Collegiate Institute. Anyone interested in helping out as a volunteer should email cheryl.washer@mail.utoronto.ca as soon as possible.

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!

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.

Events

Click here for the Chem Eng Calendar

Thursday, May 12, 2016 - OCCAM's Offical Grand Opening, 8:30am-6:00pm, WB116 (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 Inaugural Industry-Academic Workshop, 8am-3:30pm, Alumni Hall, Victoria College (registration required)

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