Here's the latest
news from Professor Dubé's office:
Professor Dubé
named a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada
(This article dated January 2012)
Professor Dubé
named a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada
(This article dated July 2011)
Excellence
Scholarship and OGS winner Salehpour
Ms. Somaieh Salehpour was awarded a University of Ottawa Excellence scholarship
as well as an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for her ongoing doctoral studies.
Congrats Somaieh! (This article dated September 2010)
Way to go, Somaieh! Ms. Somaieh Salehpour
has been awarded the Philippe
Arvisais Memorial Scholarship (This article dated June 2010)
...and again,
Best Poster Presentation for Salehpour
Somaieh does it again with a Best Poster Award at the 3rd Workshop
on Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry in Emden, Germany (This article dated March 2010)
Best poster
presentation...again! Somaieh Salehpour
(PhD student) was awarded the best poster presentation in the Women in Science
and Engineering (WISE) poster competition on Graduate Research Day at the
University of Ottawa. Awesome! (This
article dated February 2010)
Excellence
Scholarship and OGS winner Salehpour
Ms. Somaieh Salehpour was awarded a University of Ottawa Excellence scholarship
as well as an Ontario Graduate Scholarship as she begins her doctoral studies.
Congrats Somaieh! (This
article dated September 2009)
Best poster
presentation Somaieh Salehpour earned a best poster
presentation at the BIEN2009 Conference in Busan,
Korea (This article dated August 2009)
Salehpour
Awarded! Somaieh Salehpour (MASc student) was
awarded the Graduate Fellowship in Entrepreneurship and Innovation: a $9000
fellowship for the best business proposal based on her MASc graduate thesis (This article dated May 2008)
BioDiesel Reactor Technologies Inc. BDR
Tech is a spin-off company launched in June 2007 which exploits the biodiesel
membrane reactor technology developed by Profs. Marc Dubé and
André Tremblay. More news to come soon! (This article dated May 2008)
Pierre Laberge Prize for Dr.
Renata Jovanovic
CONACYT Scholarship for
NSERC winner Roberge, OGS winner Brooks
NSERC winner,
Jovanovic receives 2003 Carl Dahlquist
Award At the recent PSTC Conference in
Washington, D.C., Renata Jovanovic was awarded the
2003 Carl Dahlquist Award from the Pressure Sensitive
Tape Council (PSTC) for demonstrating “the very best in
NSERC winner, Catherine Goubko joins the team! Catherine
Goubko, a 2nd year student in Chemical Engineering at the
More OGS winners!
Jovanovic gets Award of Excellence! Renata Jovanovic was awarded an Award of
Excellence for second place in the Student Paper Competition -Technical Papers
at the 12th International Conference of Women Engineers and
Scientists. (This article dated
September, 2002)
Jovanovic
triumphs again! Renata Jovanovic has been awarded an OGS Scholarship from the Government of
Premier's
Research Excellence Award for Prof. Dubé Professor Dubé was awarded a Premier's
Research Excellence Award for his work on pressure-sensitive adhesives. (This article dated November, 2001)
Marc Laplante: OGSST winner!
Congratulations are in order for Marc Laplante, a new
MASc student in the group. Marc is the winner of an OGSST scholarship. He is
being co-supervised by Dr. David Taylor.
Welcome to the group, Marc. (This article
dated November, 2001)
New Equipment Acquisition: Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer
As part of his collaboration with the new Centre for Catalysis Research and
Innovation (CCRI), a Rheometrics
RDA III Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer has been purchased for Dr. Dubé’s lab. This equipment will serve primarily for the
measurement of mechanical properties of soft solids. (This article dated May, 2001)
Dual Award Winners: Hua and Jovanovic
New
Equipment Acquisition: Brookhaven Instruments-Disc Centrifuge
Photosedimentometer As a result of an NSERC Equipment Grant, a disc centrifuge
photosedimentometer manufactured by Brookhaven Instruments has been
installed in Dr. Dubé’s lab. The main purpose of this
equipment is to measure particle size and particle size distribution of
emulsion polymerization latexes. This Equipment Grant includes co-applicants
Drs. André Tremblay and Takeshi Matsuura. (This article dated May, 2001)
New
Equipment Acquisition: LabMax Reactor As part of
his collaboration with the new Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation
(CCRI), a fully automated LabMax Reactor
has been installed in Dr. Dubé’s lab. This glass
vessel is equipped with temperature control, pH monitoring, semi-batch feeds
and can be operated up to 6 atm of pressure. In
addition, the reactor is compatible with the ReactIR 1000 in-line infrared
monitoring equipment (see
2000 IPR Scholarship for Renata
Jovanovic Renata Jovanovic has triumphed again, winning one of two 2000 IPR Scholarships
for academic excellence during a graduate student degree in polymer
science/engineering. This scholarship was awarded by the Institute for Polymer
Research at the
Entrance Scholarship for Renata
Jovanovic Renata Jovanovic has completed her MASc with the polymer reaction engineering
group and has been awarded an Admission Scholarship for her PhD work. Great
work Renata! (This article dated January, 2001)
Entrance Scholarship for
Another award for Kim Merrett Kim
Merrett has been named this year's winner of the
Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division of the Chemical Institute of
Entrance Scholarship for Xiaodong Duan
Xiaodong Duan started his M.A.Sc.
studies in September 1999 with the polymer reaction
engineering group and has been awarded an entrance scholarship. Xiaodong is
co-supervised by myself, Dr. May Griffith
and Dr. Heather Sheardown. Welcome to the group Xiaodong! (This
article dated
Kim Merrett, NSERC Scholar Kim Merrett has
begun her M.A.Sc. program
this September (1999) and has been awarded an NSERC scholarship and is being
co-supervised by Dr.
Heather Sheardown and myself. Congratulations,
Kim! (This article dated
Noelle
McBride leads Univ. of Ottawa Engineering to victory At the 1999 PEO Ottawa Chapter Student Papers
Night, Noelle McBride's award for Best Overall Paper led the University of Ottawa Engineering team to victory over
Installation
of ReactIR 1000 in-line mid-infrared probe The new ReactIR 1000
in-line mid-infrared probe (manufactured by ASI Applied Systems Inc.) has
been installed in Dr. Dubé’s lab. This equipment, to
be used to continuously monitor the composition and conversion of
multicomponent or single component polymerizations, was acquired as part of a
Entrance
Scholarship for Renata Jovanovic Renata Jovanovic will be starting her M.A.Sc. studies in January 1999
with the polymer reaction engineering group and has been awarded an entrance
scholarship. Welcome to the group Renata! (This article dated
Entrance
Scholarship for
Congratulations
to Renée-Claude Beauchemin Renée-Claude
Beauchemin, who recently completed her undergraduate thesis under Professor Dubé's supervision, is the winner
of two prestigious awards. Firstly, at the 48th Canadian Chemical Engineering
Conference held in