Graduate Office

Office Closure: The Graduate Office will be closed Wednesday, August 27, 2014.

Ph.D. Qualifying Examination – G. Kolliopoulos
Date of Meeting: Monday, August 25, 2014 in WB215 at 10 am
Research Topic: WATER RECOVERY FROM INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER STREAMS VIA FORWARD OSMOSIS
Committee: Chair: Prof. R. C. Newman; Supervisor: Prof. V. G. Papangelakis; Other Member(s): Prof. C. Q. Jia, Prof. D. W. Kirk

Ph.D. Qualifying Examination – R. Cherizol
Date of Meeting: Monday, August 25, 2014 in WB407 at 11 am
Research Topic: MODELING THE RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC OF BLEACHED CHEMITHERMOMECHANICAL PULP REINFORCED BIO-BASED NYLON 11 COMPOSITE
Committee: Chair: Prof. C. M. Yip; Supervisor: Prof. M. Sain; Co-Supervisor: Prof. Jimi Tjong; Other Member(s): Prof. H. Naguib, Prof. S. Sayad

M.A.Sc. DEPARTMENTAL ORAL - Y. Wei
Date of Meeting: Tuesdy, August 26, 2014 in WB115 at 10 am
Thesis Title: SULFUR-IMPREGNATED ACTIVATED CARBON-SURFACE INTERACTIONS WITH ELEMENTAL MERCURY AND ITS WETTABILITY
Committee: Chair: Prof. G. J. Evans; Supervisor(s): Prof. C. Q. Jia; Other Member(s): Prof. D. W. Kirk

Ph.D. DEPARTMENTAL ORAL – S. Tabtabaei
Date of Meeting: Friday, August 29, 2014 in WB115 at 9:30 am
Thesis Title: RAPID TRANSMETHYLATION OF YELLOW MUSTARD OIL COUPLED WITH PROTEIN ISOLATE PRODUCTION
Committee: Chair: Prof. A. F. Yakunin; Supervisor(s): Prof. L. L. Diosady; Other Member(s): Prof. E. J. Acosta, Prof. D. G. B. Boocock

Research Office

Publications

Interaction between local strains and stress corrosion cracks studied by diffraction techniques
Ulaganathan, J., Persaud, S., Carcea, A.G., McIntyre, N.S., Newman, R.C.
Materials Science and Technology Conference and Exhibition 2013, MS and T 2013, 4 pp. 2321-2328

Nonautonomous contact guidance signaling during collective cell migration
Londono, C., Loureiro, M.J., Slater, B., Lücker, P.B., Soleas, J., Sathananthan, S., Aitchison, J.S., Kabla, A.J., McGuigan, A.P.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 111 (5) pp. 1807-1812

Mechanical behavior of transparent nanofibrillar cellulose-chitosan nanocomposite films in dry and wet conditions
Wu, T., Farnood, R., O'Kelly, K., Chen, B.
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 2014, 32 pp. 279-286

Thermostabilization of glutamate decarboxylase B from Escherichia coli by structure-guided design of its pH-responsive N-terminal interdomain
Jun, C., Joo, J.C., Lee, J.H., Kim, Y.H.
Journal of Biotechnology 2014, 174 (1) pp. 22-28

Accounting for inhomogeneous broadening in nano-optics by electromagnetic modeling based on Monte Carlo methods
Gudjonson, H., Kats, M.A., Liu, K., Nie, Z., Kumacheva, E., Capasso, F.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (6) pp. E639-E644

Chem Eng Events

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August 28, 2014 - Visiting Scholar Seminar, Dr. Horst von Recum, Using Molecular Interactions to Control Release Rate and Refilling of Drug Delivery Devices, 9:30 am - 10:30 am, Red Room, Donnelly Centre

August 29, 2014 - SOCAAR Seminar, Dr. Jay R. Turner, Air Quality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: Impact Assessment of a Residential Heating Stove Replacement Program and Long-Term Prospects, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, WB407

September 1, 2014 - Labour Day: The university will be closed.

September 3, 2014 - ChemE Undergraduate Orientation

September 3, 2014 - SOCAAR Seminar, Dr. Yaacov Mamane, Source apportionment of fine and coarse atmospheric particles (examples from Tel- Aviv, Brindisi, and Florida), 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, WB130

September 4, 2014 - Classes Begin - Welcome Back to Skule!