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Michael Sefton Receives Two Major Honours

Sefton This week, University Professor Michael Sefton (ChemE, IBBME) received a rare honour that few Canadians hold. He was invited to join the United States Institute of Medicine (IOM), which is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences and advises U.S. policy makers on scientific and medical matters. Only 10 non-U.S. members are elected to the IOM each year.

Professor Sefton is a pioneer in the area of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine and is working on solving the mystery of how blood vessels grow, with the goal of developing engineered tissues with strong vascular function.

Learn more about the IOM and Professor Sefton's work.

In addition to his election to the IOM, Professor Sefton received a special gift this week: the journal Biomaterials Science published a special themed collection in honour of his 65th birthday. The collection includes articles from several of his former graduate students, including ChemE Professors Alison McGuigan and Milica Radisic, who have themselves gone on to be leaders in their field.

Read the special collection.

Elizabeth Edwards Named Canada Research Chair

Edwards Congratulations to ChemE Professor Elizabeth Edwards who has been named Canada Research Chair in Anaerobic Biotechnology.

Professor Edwards is the Director of BioZone and a leading expert on the use of microbes to remediate groundwater contaminated with industrial solvents. Microbial cultures developed in her lab are in use at several hundred polluted sites around the world, putting to use the tiniest of life forms to solve a big problem.

Learn more.

Oct 24, 2014

Volume 31, Issue 30

In this issue:

Departmental Offices
Announcements
Chem Eng Events

Departmental Offices

Graduate Office

Ph.D. Reading Committee Meeting – N. Zimmerman
Date of Meeting: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 in WB215 at 10 am
Committee: Chair: Prof. C. Chin; Supervisor: Prof. G. J. Evans, Prof. J. S. Wallace; Other Member(s): Prof. J. Brook

*** Graduate Office Closed on Mon, Oct 27, 2014 ***

Upcoming Graduate Award Deadlines

Departmental Awards

*Students are also encouraged to check the Scholarships & Awards section of the SGS website.

Announcements

SOCAAR Seminars

Airway cell responss to inhaled irritants: Evidence from human inhalation challenge studies
Dr. Neil Alexis, Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, UNC School of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill
Monday, Oct 27, 1:00 - 2:00 PM, Wallberg Building, Room 407

From modelling to policy: refining the science of decision-making
Dr. Amir Hakami, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University
Wednesday, Nov 5, 2:00 - 3:00PM, Wallberg Building, Room 407

Chem Eng Events

Click here for the Chem Eng Calendar

October 29, 2014 - Emerging Leaders, Dr. Carlo Giorgio Visconti, Politecnico di Milano, Intensification of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis through a novel structured packed-bed reactor, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

November 5, 2014 - Emerging Leaders, Dr. Claudia Fischbach-Teschl, Cornell University, Cancer research from a tissue engineering and biomaterials perspective, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

November 12, 2014 - Emerging Leaders, Dr. Abraham Duncan Stroock, Cornell University, Engineering perspectives on structure, thermodynamics, and transport in vascular plants, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

November 18, 2014 - Fall Convocation, 10 am - 12 pm, Convocation Hall

November 26, 2014 - Emerging Leaders, Dr. Shaily Mahendra, UCLA, Biodegradation of Emerging Contaminants: Polyfluorinated Compounds and 1,4-Dioxane, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

December 3, 2014 - LLE - Irving O. Shoichet Distinguished Lecture, Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, UC Berkeley, Illuminating glycans, the dark matter of the cell surface, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

January 7, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University, Making Education Sticky: Approaches to the repair of undergraduates’ misconceptions about thermodynamics and heat transfer, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

January 14, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Samir Mitragotri, UC Santa Barbara, Bio-inspired Strategies for Targeted Drug Delivery, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

January 28, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo, Unravelling the Complexities of Electrochemical Energy Storage at the Nanoscale, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

February 4, 2015 - LLE, Dr. John Brady, California Institute of Technology, Chemical Swimming and Active Matter, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

February 11, 2015 - Emerging Leaders, Dr. Antoine Allanore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrochemical engineering for sustainable materials extraction: the promises and challenges of molten electrolytes, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

March 4, 2015 - Emerging Leaders, Dr. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, Understanding and implementing new oxide catalysts, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

March 11, 2015 - Emerging Leaders, Dr. Nathalie Tufenkji, McGill University, Myth or Fact: Can Drinking Cranberry Juice Help Prevent Urinary Tract and Other Infections?, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

March 18, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Alison Lewis, University of Cape Town, Rethinking Precipitation Processes: The Art of the State, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

March 25, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Ponisseril Somasundaran, Columbia University, Next Generation Sustainable Surface Active Agents, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

April 1, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Yu-Ling Cheng, University of Toronto, Technologies for global development and global health, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

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