Professor Madhuranthakam is a well-known and well-respected professor from the Chemical Engineering department, loved by his students for his evident enthusiasm for his course material and passion for teaching.Ìý
This month, the Iron Warrior took some time to chat with this awesome professor.
Associate Professor Zhongwei Chen 
Congratulations to Gregory Lui for receiving the AECOM Graduate Scholarship ($5000) in Water Research from the Water Institute! He is one of five graduate students at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ to receive an annual scholarship for water-related research. Gregory is a PhD student whose research involves synthesizing novel photocatalytic materials that can be used in renewable waste-water remediation and hydrogen fuel production.
Congratulations to the uwDNA team for their Bronze Medal at the 2014 BIOMOD competition held at Harvard University.
Congratulations to the UW iGEM team for their Gold Medal and Best Model PrizeÌý at the 2014 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The fourth-year design project group and start-up company Suncayr has been awarded the in the James Dyson award competition. Their product is a color changing marker pen, full of UV responsive ink, that the user draws on their skin. When UV light hits the ink, it changes color – letting the user know that they need to reapply their sunscreen. They are the highest achieving Canadian entrant in history of this competition.
Drew Higgins, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the Grand Prize for the 2014 Dr. Bernard S. Baker Student Researcher Award for Fuel Cell Research. The purpose of this award is to encourage and recognize exceptional student research relating to fuel cell technologies.
The Sandford Fleming Foundation Award Winners 2013/2014 have been awarded to Adelle Vickery, Chemical Engineering and Debbie Xinyu Wu, Nano Technology Engineering.
Free Public Lecture and Expert Panel - The Science Behind
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