News & Updates

The Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry invites applications for a full-time tenure stream appointment in the area of the application of data science to chemical and biochemical systems. The appointment will be at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor with an expected start date of July 1, 2022, or shortly thereafter. Applicants… Read more »

Claire Kennedy (ChemE 8T9) is no stranger to board rooms – she serves as lead director of the Bank of Canada and as chair of Neo Performance Materials Inc. – but she says the University of Toronto’s Governing Council is in a class of its own. As the council’s outgoing chair, Kennedy says the body… Read more »

Story originally appeared in U of T Engineering News A new program aims to equip U of T Engineering staff and faculty with the tools to build their understanding of the history, truths and culture of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Development of the Indigenous Cultural Competency Toolkit began in February 2021 and was led by Sienna Gagner (ChemE 2T0+PEY),… Read more »

    Story by Parveen Singh, U of T Engineering News   A first-of-its-kind virtual conference will showcase the breadth and depth of scientific research across U of T Engineering.  Engineering Research Days: Empowering Innovation 2021 will take place on June 24 and 25, offering attendees an interactive online venue to engage with researchers from departments,… Read more »

Prof. Gisele Azimi (ChemE) joined CBC Radio to discuss her research on developing technology to recycle precious metals from electronic waste. Click HERE to listen to the full interview on CBC Radio

Professor Cathy Chin (ChemE) is part of a Ford consortium involving global industry members and major academic and research institutions. The consortium just revealed its work in North America related to the development of renewable, high-energy density drop-in automotive fuels produced from various renewable feedstocks including biomass, municipal solid waste and waste plastics. In addition… Read more »

This story was originally published in U of T News Treating heart failure without transplant surgery. Delivering powerful cell therapies to patients where they live – no matter how remote. Recording how cells talk to one another in the body to personalize future therapies. These are just some of the transformative advances the University of Toronto’s Medicine… Read more »

Story originally published in U of T News The University of Toronto is bringing together researchers, pharmaceutical innovators and government partners to address gaps in Canada’s biomanufacturing ecosystem and discuss solutions for public health challenges such as COVID-19. A Biomanufacturing Training & Innovation Workshop hosted by U of T recently drew nearly 100 attendees from… Read more »

Professor Gisele Azimi (ChemE, MSE) was featured in a TVO Earth Week article discussing her research on battery recycling and what the future of lithium-ion battery recycling could look like in the age of electric vehicles. Read the full story

Version One Ventures, led by alumna Angela Tran (EngSci 0T5, ChemE MASc 0T7, ChemE PhD 1T2) and Boris Wertz, invested US$2-million across two private financings of Coinbase in 2017 and 2018, picking up about 151,000 shares. Both investments were made from its $35-million (US$28-million) second venture fund. Read the full story in the Globe and… Read more »

Story by Liz Do, U of T Engineering News For 99 years, U of T Engineering students have put on a musical and comedy show, Skule™ Nite, to packed audiences at Hart House Theatre. But in its 100th year, while surefire jokes about Skule™ life and Arts & Science students will remain, almost nothing else about… Read more »

This story was originally published by U of T Engineering News You can’t grow food without water, and in many parts of the world, there isn’t a lot to spare. Two U of T Engineering graduates have a solution they think could help. Austin Mclean (MechEng 1T5+PEY, MEng 1T9) and Rashmi Satharakulasinghe (ChemE 1T7) are the co-founders of Corridor… Read more »

Story originally published by The Charlatan With the pandemic keeping most students out of the lab, University of Toronto professor Ariel Chan is bringing in-person learning to her classroom with the help of virtual reality. Using Labster, a virtual lab platform, to run her labs with 3D simulations, Chan is giving her third-year chemical engineering and applied chemistry… Read more »

Professor Jeff Brook (ChemE) was featured on CBC News The National to discuss pollution and air quality levels during COVID-19 and the app he’s developing to measure air quality and the health of communities. Watch the full segment 

This article was adapted for Chem Eng News. Read the full list of startups to watch at U of T News. With nearly a dozen startup incubators and accelerators spread across its three campuses, the University of Toronto is a thriving hotbed of entrepreneurial activity — even amid the pandemic. U of T Engineering entrepreneurs and their startups are finding… Read more »

The Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry remains Canada’s top-ranked chemical engineering program and maintains its spot in the global top 30, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2021. Overall, the Department ranks 26th globally, marking an increase from last year’s ranking of 27th. Additionally, the rankings placed U of… Read more »

Ajay Kochhar (ChemE 1T3) is an alumnus of the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry. This story originally appeared in the Globe and Mail. Battery recycler Li-Cycle Corp. is raising cash for global expansion by going public on the New York Stock Exchange in a deal that values the Mississauga-based company at US$1.7-billion. Li-Cycle… Read more »

Story by Julien Couture-Senécal This story was originally published by the Institute of Biomedical Engineering Dr. Ahil Ganesh graduated in 2019 from Chemical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering, where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Dr. Molly Shoichet’s lab (ChemE, BME, Donnelly). Dr. Ganesh is now a senior research scientist at Spark Therapeutics, working on gene therapies…. Read more »

This story originally appeared in the Globe and Mail One of Canada’s most celebrated scientists, Molly Shoichet, is stepping up plans to take a key discovery out of her lab and into the marketplace. On Monday, AmacaThera Inc., the third startup spun out of Dr. Shoichet’s University of Toronto lab, is announcing it has raised… Read more »

Story by Liz Do, U of T Engineering News Kelly-Marie Melville (ChemE 1T2 + PEY) was in her dorm room, just two weeks into her studies at U of T Engineering, when a fellow student Korede Owolabi (CompE 1T5 + PEY) and member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) U of T chapter came knocking on her door…. Read more »

In celebration of Black History Month, U of T Engineering invited students and alumni who identify as Black (including African, African-Canadian, African-Caribbean ancestry) and women to reflect on their experiences in STEM, the barriers they’ve faced in their career journeys, their inspirations, and the advice that they have for young Black women students.   The perspectives of Stephanie Obeta (ChemE Year 3) and Kelly-Marie Melville (ChemE 1T2 +… Read more »

Story originally published by U of T News A University of Toronto startup is looking to improve the nutrition of dogs and cats while protecting the environment. Working with U of T Mississauga’s ICUBE accelerator, HOPE Pet Foods bills itself as both meat-free and sustainable, and is preparing to launch a line of pet foods built around alternative proteins – namely insects and… Read more »

Story originally published by the Institute for Biomedical Engineering Dr. Locke Davenport-Huyer graduated in 2019 with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. During his time at the University of Toronto, Locke has authored over 30 publications and co-founded Discovery, an educational STEM initiative that seeks to bridge the gap between high… Read more »

Story by Dalla Lana School of Public Health U of T researchers are developing an app allowing anyone to learn about air quality, greenery, walkability, and other factors contributing to the environmental health of their neighborhoods. Tentatively named “Good Score,” the app will lay bare  environmental inequities among communities across Canada, and, for the first… Read more »

Story by Rebecca Logan, CivMin Tell us about yourself. My name is Stella Gregorski (ChemE Year 3). I’ve been involved with Concrete Canoe for three years now. I started out as a general member, then a concrete technical lead last year before becoming Co-Project Manager this year. Concrete Canoe is the only design team I’m… Read more »

Story by Linda Quattrin, Temerty Faculty of Medicine Signalling that science is firmly back on the U.S. agenda, President Joe Biden has named high-profile scientist Eric Lander as his nominee to be both science advisor and head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). If confirmed by Congress, Lander will be… Read more »

BioZone researchers are among key collaborators in the development of what is said to be the quickest, most accurate and most affordable COVID-19 antibody test currently available. Supported by funding from the Toronto COVID-19 Action Initiative (TCAI), BioZone supplied purified nucleocapsid protein to facilitate the work undertaken by Shawn Li at Western University to develop the rapid antibody… Read more »

Story by Liz Do, U of T Engineering News For more than 70 years, the Unit Ops Lab has been a cornerstone for undergraduate training in chemical engineering. Now, Professor Ariel Chan (ChemE) is using virtual reality and 3D simulations to make it accessible to students who are studying from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Unit Ops… Read more »