Four graduate students have received Student Discovery Awards. Established in 2013, this award is presented to students who have successfully defended their MASc or PhD thesis at a Departmental Oral Examination within 2 or 5 years of program start date respectively, and have authored/co-authored at least one first-authored paper per year in the program at the time of the examination. Congratulations to:
John Anawati
- Thesis title: Metallurgical Processes for Extraction of Strategic Materials from Bauxite Residue and Ionic Clays
- Degree: PhD
- Supervisor: Gisele Azimi
Jihye Kim
- Thesis title: Sustainable Valorization of Steelmaking Slag: From Metal Extraction to Carbon Sequestration
- Degree: PhD
- Supervisor: Gisele Azimi
Yijia (Erica) Wang
- Thesis title: Mechanistic Investigation of Intercalation Process in Two Specific Aqueous and Non-aqueous Aluminum Ion Batteries
- Degree: PhD
- Supervisor: Gisele Azimi
Kaushikraj Venkatesan
- Thesis title: Design Principles for Engineering Dynamic Control of Metabolism in Microbes for Chemical Production
- Degree: PhD
- Supervisor: Krishna Mahadevan
To be considered for this award, the student must submit a list of publications and a one-page impact statement to the Committee at the start of the examination.