Doctoral candidate wins Poster Competition at the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference
Mehr Negar Mirvakili, CHBE doctoral candidate, presented a paper and a poster at the 68th Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering Conference in Toronto. The conference, CSChE 2018, took place on October 28 to 31 at the Sheraton Centre, and featured competitions for undergraduate and graduate students. Negar’s poster, “Effect of Surface Wettability on Optical Properties of Casted Microfibrillated […]
Richard Kerekes inducted into Paper Industry International Hall of Fame
Richard Kerekes, Professor Emeritus in UBC’s Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, was inducted into the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA on October 4, 2018. The award was granted in recognition of his preeminent academic and research contributions to the paper industry. Richard J. Kerekes received his BASc. (1963) and MASc […]
Dr. Joe Zhao appointed Distinguished Professor of Qilu University, Jinan, China
Dr. Joe Zhao, Adjunct Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering and alumnus of the UBC Pulp and Paper Centre, was appointed Distinguished Professor at Qilu University of Technology (QLUT) in Jinan, China, on September 4, 2018, Jinan is the capital of Shandong province, a major papermaking region of China. QLUT has 21,404 full time […]
UBC Profs. Richard Kerekes and Joe Zhao at international conference in China
Professor Emeritus Richard Kerekes and Adjunct Professor Joe Zhao of UBC’s Chemical and Biological Engineering presented three papers in all at the China International Paper Technology and Exhibition Conference held in Shanghai China on August 28–30, 2018. Dr. Kerekes gave two technical papers co-authored with Joe Zhao and Dave McDonald of JDMcD Consulting Inc. […]