Five Engineering Researchers Awarded Connaught Grants
Winners of the newly revamped Connaught New Researcher Awards, fostering excellence in research and innovation by assistant professors, include five researchers from the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. They are: Professor Jason Anderson (ECE, MASc 9T7, PhD 0T5) – A self-accelerating adaptive processor: automatic software-to-hardware synthesis Professor Timothy Bender (ChemE) – Integration of the Nocel F5BsubPc […]
ChemE Wins Two International Communication Awards
The Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry (ChemE) was honoured last week with two 2011 Hermes Creative Awards from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The Department’s weekly e-newsletter – CHEM ENG NEWS – (CEN) – won a Platinum Award in the e-newsletter category, while a series of promotional videos for its graduate […]
Students Help Set World Record
Graduate students from the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry’s food engineering laboratory helped set the Guinness World Record for largest ice cream cake ever made. The cake assembled at Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto, was the focus of an event sponsored by Dairy Queen to mark the 30th anniversary of their ice cream […]
Professor Milica Radisic Discovers Cure for Broken Heart
The best medicine for a broken heart, it turns out, might not be time or chocolate or revenge, but a peptide with the unlikely name QHREDGS Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME/ChemE) is a leader in cardiovascular tissue engineering, the science of building living tissues using cells and biomaterials. She grows heart cells in her lab and […]
Radiation Worries Likely Overblown, Says Chemical Engineering Professor
For all the troubles facing the earthquake-stricken people of Japan, a nuclear meltdown may be among the least of their worries, a Canadian radiation expert says. The danger of serious radiation leaks from the Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant have likely been overblown, despite a series of explosions and evidence that three […]
Professor Michael Sefton Awarded the 2011 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal
The 2011 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal has been awarded to Professor Michael Sefton (IBBME, ChemE). The award recognizes excellence and leadership in biomaterials research and practical applications. Professor Sefton is regarded as a pioneer in tissue engineering and a leader in biomaterials, biomedical engineering and regenerative medicine. He is the first to recognize the importance […]
Molly Shoichet is Named to Ontario’s Highest Honour
Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME), a world-renowned researcher of regenerative medicine, is among 30 new appointees to the Order of Ontario, the provincial government announced on Friday. The appointees to Ontario’s highest honour were chosen for their contributions to the arts, justice, science, medicine, history, politics, philanthropy and the environment. The Honourable David C. Onley, […]
Astronaut Touches Down On Campus
Astronaut Robert Thirsk, the first Canadian to live on the International Space Station (ISS), visited the University of Toronto on October 27th. His visit was an opportunity to review the results of an experiment Thirsk conducted while aboard the ISS, which was designed by Professor Masahiro Kawaji (ChemE). Thirsk spent 188 days aboard the ISS between May […]
Are Processed Meats Safe?
Processed meat generally refers to meats preserved by smoking, curing, salting or otherwise adding chemicals, such as sodium nitrite. Many studies over the years have examined whether they increase risk of cancer and other diseases, and concluded that they have. In the 1970s, scientists thought the culprit was the additive, sodium nitrite, which gives processed meats their […]
