News & Announcements

October 2017 cover for Nature Materials

This week, a team project led by Professor Milica Radisic entitled, Flexible shape-memory scaffold for minimally invasive delivery of functional tissues, made the cover of the journal Nature Materials. Professor Radisic’s team is mending broken hearts with an expanding tissue bandage a little smaller than a postage stamp. Their technique lets them use a small needle to inject a repair patch, without the need to open up the chest cavity. Click here to view the cover, which depicts a flexible tissue scaffold emerging from a glass pipette with a tip one millimetre wide and unfolding itself after injection into the body. (Image provided by Miles Montgomery and Rick Lu)

Young alumna participates in I-7/G-7

This week in Torino, Italy, Angela Tran Kingyens (ChemE MASc 0T7, PhD 1T2) was part of the I-7, a small delegation of five other Canadians who advised the G-7 on innovation policy. This was the first year non-government people were invited to weigh in on topics related to innovation. Angela’s work centered around how artificial intelligence can help governments make better decisions and deliver policies and service more effectively. Angela is an Investor with Version One Ventures – an early-stage fund that invests in outstanding founders who are building companies that leverage network effects created through connecting people and/or data. You can follow Angela through her company’s blog.

Students from SOCAAR photographed by Toronto Star

In a recent article published by the Toronto Star regarding the adverse effects of outdoor activities on smoggy days, two students from the Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research were photographed testing air quality at Sugar Beach in Toronto. Click here to read the story and view the photo.

Chem Club's Research Repository

Chem Club would like to invite professors to join its Research Repository to make student research a bit more accessible to ChemE undergrads. Professors can forward their details to michael.fediw@mail.utoronto.ca.

Call: International Climate Protection Fellowship

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants up to 20 fellowships to prospective leaders from non-European transition or developing countries, who are active in any of the following areas: scientific, engineering-based, legal, economic, health-related or social aspects of climate change. The young climate experts will go to Germany for a year to work alongside a host of their own choosing on a research-related project. For detailed information and all application requirements, click here. The deadline for applications is Thursday, March 1, 2018. If you have any questions regarding the International Climate Protection Fellowship Programme or would like individual guidance, please email info@avh.de.

CIFST's New Professionals Program

The Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) has a new committee: the New Professionals Program. The committee is seeking two student representatives from each Ontario College and University. If you are a grad student interested in representing U of T, please contact Sophia Walter for more information. She can be reached at swalter@powellmay.cbpowell.com.

Call: CIFST volunteers

The Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) is looking for volunteers to assist with two upcoming events: its annual Ontario Technical Session on Friday, October 20 and its Tabletop Suppliers Night on Tuesday, November 7. If you'd like to help out for either of these events, contact Sophia Walter. She can be reached at swalter@powellmay.cbpowell.com.

September 29, 2017

In this issue:

Upcoming Events
Grad Office
Chem Eng Events

Upcoming Events

Grad Office

PhD Reading Committee Meeting – Po Hsiang Wang

Date of Meeting: Wednesday, October 4
Start Time: 10:00 am Location (Building and Room): WB407
Reading Committee Membership
Supervisor: Prof. E. A. Edwards; Chair: Prof. A. Yakunin; Other Member: Prof. E. Master

PhD Reading Committee Meeting – Dylan Valleau

Date of Meeting: Wednesday, October 4
Start Time: 15:00 Location (Building and Room): WB215
Reading Committee Membership
Supervisor: Prof. A. Savchenko; Chair: Prof. A. Yakunin; Other Member: Prof. A. Ensminger (Molecular Genetics )

PhD Reading Committee Meeting – Locke Davenport Huyer

Date of Meeting: Monday, October 2
Start Time: 10:30 am Location (Building and Room): WB115
Reading Committee Membership
Committee: Chair: Prof. R. Mahadevan; Supervisor: Prof. M. Radisic; Other Member(s): Prof. T. Bender

PhD Reading Committee Meeting – Mark Soberman

Date of Meeting: Monday, October 2
Start Time: 9:00 am Location (Building and Room): WB407
Committee: Chair: Prof. C. Q. Jia; Supervisor: Prof. R. R. Farnood; Co-Supervisor: Prof. S. Tabe; Other Member(s): Prof. R. Hofman (CIV)

Important Dates

Monday, October 30: Final date to drop fall session full and half courses without academic penalty.

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