“Bioremediation is about engineering what nature does naturally”.
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Congratulations to “CHEM ENG HAWKS” for winning the championship in UBC REC men’s volleyball league. The Graduate Student Club coordinated and organized two volleyball teams (Men’s and Co-rec) and a futsall team to represent CHBE in UBC REC 2011-2012 leagues.
CHBE is looking for players to join their sports teams for the next season and [...]

Congratulations James Butler! James has been selected as a recipient of the 2011/12 UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. The award recognizes a small number of graduate students at UBC for their outstanding contribution to teaching and learning. We are grateful for James’ contribution to our Department.

Congratulations to our graduate students James Butler and Nagu Daraboina who were awarded the John R. GRACE Graduate Scholarship in Chemical and Biological Engineering. This scholarship has been endowed in honour of Dr. John R. Grace by his wife, Dr. Sherrill E. Grace, for graduate students in Chemical and Biological Engineering who demonstrate academic [...]

Four 4th-year students (Heather Kempthorne, Wendy Cheng, Cherie Tan and Anastasia Gumelia) win the E-Fest 2012 Community Service Learning (CSL) Award for their outstanding contributions to community development while undertaking their 4th year problem based laboratory. The project relates to the development of a method to monitor carbon sequestration by eelgrass (photo). The [...]

CHBE Grad Club successfully held another CHBE Professional Development Seminar with Dr. David Wilkinson as the speaker on February 28. Dr. Wilkinson gave an excellent talk on career development titled as “Unexpected Passages and Connections”. Dr. Wilkinson was a competitive athlete when he was young and then he made tough decision to transit to science. [...]

On March 1st, four students from AIT arrived at the UBC campus. While their school recovers from floods suffered in 2011, these graduate students will continue their research work with the help of Dr. Peter Englezos and Dr. Mark Martinez from our department, as well as Dr. James [...]

The CHBE Grad club is pleased to announce Dr. David Wilkinson as the speaker at the upcoming PDS scheduled on Tuesday February 28th at Noon. Dr. Wilkinson will join us to give a talk on career development titled as “Unexpected Passages and Connections”. Dr. Wilkinson has over 20 years of industrial experience and served [...]

As part of the ongoing seminar series, the CHBE Grad Club has organized an information session about the research and training programs offered by Mitacs. These are designed to enable graduate students to apply their research to real-world business challenges, and develop business and entrepreneurial skills, as well as long-term career success.
The seminar will [...]

The second seminar of the “Professional Development Speaker Series”, organized by the CHBE Graduate Club, was successfully held on November 30th with Professor John Grace as the speaker. After completing his PhD, Dr. Grace has worked as faculty member for more than 40 years at McGill University and UBC. In addition to teaching and [...]