Posts Categorized: Honours & Awards 2019

Ajay Kochhar (ChemE 1T3), President and CEO of Li-Cycle, has been named one of Canada’s 2020 Clean16 leaders in sustainability and clean technology, as part of Canada’s Clean50 Awards which are announced annually by Delta Management Group and the Clean50…

The R.S. Jane Memorial Award is presented annually by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering to a person, who, while residing in Canada has made an exceptional achievement to the field of chemical engineering or industrial chemistry. Levente L. Diosady…

Ali Khademhosseini (ChemE 9T9, IBBME MASc 0T1) is one of 93 new Fellows in the Academies of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science to have been elected by their peers to the Royal Society of Canada. Khademhosseini holds faculty…

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering recently announced Prof. Arun Ramchandran (ChemE) as the 2019 winner of The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Lectureship Award. The award recognizes outstanding contribution to chemical engineering while working in Canada. Arun Ramachandran, MCIC…

The son of a Dutch farm labourer, William Troost didn’t have much money when he was growing up – which is why he speaks so highly of the scholarship he received to study engineering at the University of Toronto. “Without…

Elizabeth Edwards (ChemE) has been appointed to the rank of University Professor. This is the University of Toronto’s highest academic rank, recognizing unusual scholarly achievement and pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge. The number of such appointments is limited to 2%…

Five U of T Engineering professors and alumni have been honoured by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) with Ontario Professional Engineers Awards. Among the winners is Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) who received…

The U of T Engineering community gathered on Thursday, May 2 to recognize outstanding faculty and staff members for their leadership, innovation and contributions to the Faculty’s teaching, service and research missions at the 12th annual Celebrating Engineering Excellence reception.…

On March 31, the University of Toronto Chemical Vehicles (UTCV) design team competed in the 2019 Chem-E Car Competition at the Eckhardt Northeast Regional AIChE Student Conference, which took place at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. This is the…

University Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME, Donnelly) has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the U.K.’s national academy of sciences. The organization is the world’s oldest scientific academy, and one of its most prestigious. “It’s a great…