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Spring Convocation pictures now online

Over 30 grad students and well-over 100 undergrad students convocated from our department on Wednesday, June 8. Check out pics taken during the day.

Graduate internship in paper formulation and coating

Schaeffler Group USA, Inc. is looking for a graduate student intern to start working on paper formulation and coating in Fall 2016. PhD students preferred. For more details, click here. Interested candidates are asked to send their resumes (as soon as possible) to Hamed Eksiri at hamed.eksiri@schaeffler.com

Display your pride!

Engineering Strategic Communications is planning a celebration with colourful balloons for Tuesday, June 21 from 8:30-9:30am in the Bahen Atrium ahead of #DisplayYourPride day at U of T, which is Thursday, June 23. The plan is to have 24 people from across the Faculty—undergrads and grad students, members of EngSoc, staff and faculty, lots of different people—each hold one colourful balloon. People will walk from all corners of the Bahen Atrium to come together in a formation to form the pride flag. Photos and video will be taken. If you’re available and would like to participate, please fill out this simple form: http://goo.gl/forms/HWCuFw2vw7W1EFeR2

Special lecture by Yen Wah Tong on Wed, Jun 29

Dr. Yen Wah Tong (ChemE PhD 0T0), a professor from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore, will be giving a seminar on Wednesday, June 29 from 11am-12pm in room 208 of the Rosebrugh Building (164 College Street, 2nd floor). The talk is entitled, Amphiphilic Peptides That Mimic Nature – A versatile platform for tissue engineering via the control of biofunctional signaling, mechanical strength and chemical degradation.

LSCDS June Seminar: Careers in Science Policy on Wed, Jun 29

The Life Sciences Career Development Society (LSCDS), a student initiative at the University of Toronto that aims to expose students to various career paths that can stem from a life sciences graduate degree, will be holding an upcoming seminar on Science Policy on Wednesday, June 29. The event runs from 6-8pm in Room 3154 of the Medical Sciences Building (1 King's College Circle). For the list of speakers and to register, click here.

Reminder: BioZone Mass Spectrometry Facility Open House

BioZone and the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering are pleased to invite you to an Open House on Wednesday, June 29 from 9am-1pm in WB219. The event will showcase the services available at the BioZone Mass Spectrometry Facility. The Mass Spectrometry Facility operates at the University of Toronto in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry and offers proteomics, metabolomics, and small molecule analysis, as well as method development services and expert advice on these techniques. For more info about the event or to register, click here.

Reminder: Special lecture by Ian Lewis on Wed, Jun 29

As part of BioZone Mass Spectrometry Facility Open House, Dr. Ian Lewis, an Assistant Professor and Alberta Innovates—Health Solutions (AIHS) Translational Health Chair in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary, will be giving a special talk entitled, Decoding metabolic evolution by high-resolution mass spectrometry. The talk will take place on Wednesday, June 29 in WB219 from 9-9:45am. To attend, click here to register.

Reminder: Acting Chair

The below professors will be serving as Acting Chair on the following dates:

Charles Jia - Thursday, June 16 and Friday, June 17
Tim Bender - Monday, July 11 to Friday, July 15
Ramin Farnood - Monday, July 18 to Friday, July 22

 

June 17, 2016

Volume 33, Issue 21

In this issue:

Grad Office
Events

 
 

Grad Office

 
 

The Banting Post-Doctoral Fellowship

The Banting Post-Doctoral Fellowship competition is now open. Additional information on eligibility and the application process can be found here. Neither the ChemE Grad Office nor the Faculty Graduate Office has access to the application system, so applicants will need to provide their potential supervisor with a copy of each of their application components. Complete applications are to be submitted as a single pdf file to the Vice Dean Graduate Office (gradstudies@ecf.utoronto.ca) by Friday, August 16. Click here for tips on how to best complete your application.

 
 

Events

Click here for the Chem Eng Calendar

 
   
 
   

Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - BioZone Mass Spectrometry Facility Open House, 9am-1pm, WB219 (registration required)

 
 


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