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UNSW Innovation Awards 2012
Wednesday, 09 May 2012
The UNSW Innovation Awards (formerly the UNSW Inventor of the Year Awards) are now accepting entries for 2012.
The UNSW Innovation Awards recognise and reward the significant effort and...
Unlocking the Secrets of Indonesia’s Natural Remedies
Wednesday, 02 May 2012
Supercritical fluid technologies developed by chemical engineers at the University of New South Wales will play a vital role in extracting medicinal compounds from a range of native Indonesian herbs...
Bio-inspired polymer synthesis enhances structure control
Wednesday, 02 May 2012
Associate Professor Per Zetterlund of the Centre for Advanced Marcomolecular Design has published in the prestigious journal Nature Chemistry, a new biomimetic approach to polymer synthesis that...
Direct observation of fouling deposition and removal on hollow fibre membrane surface.
Monday, 30 April 2012
This short video produced within the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology, The University of New South Wales, Australia is a great educational tool to illustrate mechanisms behind...
News In Review - Issue Two, March 2012
Monday, 23 April 2012
Issue Two of the School of Chemical Engineering's News In Review is now available for viewing online.
Please click here to download.
(Student) Life just doesn't get any better than this!
Friday, 13 April 2012
On Friday, March 30th 103 first year students and 25 leaders headed to Wisemans Ferry for a weekend filled with meeting new students, activities, parties and lots of fun!
The weekend started with a...
CHE Launches Women In Engineering Network
Tuesday, 03 April 2012
The School of Chemical Engineering enjoys a ratio of slightly more than 1:3 female to male undergraduates. We are proud of the achievements of our current and past female engineering students and are...
Faculty 'Oscars' Award Top Undergraduate Students
Thursday, 22 March 2012
The 10th Annual UNSW Faculty of Engineering Dean's Undergraduate Awards Ceremony was held on March 13 at The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). This evening is a chance for the Faculty to...
Graduate Opportunities Knock for CHE
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The Annual UNSW Careers and Empoyment Expo was held on Monday 19 March, and students and graduates from the School of Chemical Engineering proved to be in high demand.
Opportunites for vacation...
PARTCAT Research A Hot Topic
Friday, 16 March 2012
'Reducing Graphene Oxide on a Visible-Light B1VO4 Photocatalyst for an Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting' has just been accepted as one of The Journal of Physical Chemistry's Letters Hot...
CSIRO PhD Top Up Scholarships
Thursday, 15 March 2012
CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences is offering 2 top-ups for PhD students as part of a CSIRO-UNSW scholarship program aiming strengthening collaborative research between both institution. Australian...
Food Science Field Trip 2012
Friday, 02 March 2012
Students doing food science programs have just returned from visiting Australia’s finest food factories, travelling in comfort and style in their magnificent purple coach. Visits included pet food...
Taste of Research winner Alex Dunn
Thursday, 01 March 2012
Congratulations to Taste of Research winner Alex Dunn. Alex won both poster and oral presentation prizes.
The annual 12-week Taste of Research Summer Scholarship program once again offered a unique...
APA - PhD Scholarship Available
Thursday, 01 March 2012
APA - PhD Scholarship Available
An APA award is available to work with Professor Andrew Lowe on the synthesis and
self-assembly of novel end-functional polymers. Potential applicants must hold,
or be...
PhD Scholarship in Polymer/Colloid Chemistry Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD)
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
A PhD Scholarship in the form of an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) is available in the field of polymer chemistry/polymer colloids at The Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design(CAMD). ...
Congratulations Professor Dianne Wiley
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Congratulations to Professor Dianne Wiley, on being appointed to the Coal Innovation NSW (CINSW) Advisory Board.
OUTSTANDING FUNDING RESULTS FOR 6 RESEARCH FELLOWS over $2.25M
Monday, 23 January 2012
The School of Chemical Engineering has received outstanding research funding results receiving 6 Fellowships totalling more than $2.25 million dollars
ARC Future Fellows – 4 year funding more...
Particles and Catalysis Research Group move to TETB Building
Sunday, 22 January 2012
The Particles and Catalysis Research Group in the School of Chemical Engineering at UNSW, headed by Scientia Professor Rose Amal has now moved over to the new Tyree Energy Technologies Building....
CO2CRC Summer Research Scholarship
Monday, 17 October 2011
Have you ever wondered what research is
about? Or whether you would be interested in a research career? To give you an
opportunity to find out, the CO2CRC Economics team is offering a range of
summer...
Students sizzle at AIFST Young Members Night
Wednesday, 05 October 2011
The 2011 Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology (AIFST) held their annual Young Members' Night at the Apprentice Restaurant, Sydney TAFE on Thursday 22nd September. Two undergraduate...
Prof. Heather Greenfield recently awarded the Nevin Scrimshaw Award from FAO-INFOODS
Monday, 26 September 2011
Prof. Heather Greenfield (a Professorial Visiting fellow) from the Food Science and Technology group was recently awarded the Nevin Scrimshaw Award from FAO-INFOODS, as “a recognised leader in food...
Best Food Science Seminar 2010/11: Suzi Maqsood Ul Haque
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Congratulations to Siti Noor Suzila Maqsood Ul Haque whose presentation "Can a Greenhouse Dry?" was rated the overall best of the 2010/2011 Food Graduate Seminar series. Her award ($500 cheque and...
A national innovation favourite
Monday, 29 August 2011
A brilliant water-saving invention by UNSW engineering academic Greg Leslie and agricultural scientist Bruce Sutton has finished among the nation’s favourites for 2011 on the ABC TV program, The New...
PhD Scholarship in Hydrogen Storage and Sustainable Energy
Friday, 26 August 2011
Earn money whilst you Work and Study!
3 year term
1 Scholarship Available, $30,000 p.a. Tax Free
A scholarship is available for a PhD candidate to contribute to the development of advanced energy...
Castner Medal Presentation (SCI HQ, London, 4 August 2011)
Thursday, 04 August 2011
The Castner medal and lecture are given biannually, to recognise the achievements of an authority on applied electrochemistry. The prize is named after Hamilton Castner, who was himself a pioneer in...
Three minute thesis competition.
Monday, 01 August 2011
On Monday, 1 August, two PhD students from the School of Chemical Engineering shared the second prize at the Faculty level event.
They were:
Lina Ashmore (Food Science & Technology) for her...
Congratulations on the ARC grant success for 2011
Thursday, 07 April 2011
Linkage Projects: Successful Linkage Projects Round 1 commencing in 2011
LP110100524 Prof Adesoji A Adesina, Mr Alex R Aboagye
Approved
Project Title
Process studies for photocatalytic rejuvenation...
PhD Scholarship - Desalination
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
A PhD scholarship is available via a Grant from the National Centre of Excellence for Desalination (2011-2014) that will investigate the use of micro- and ultra-filtration membranes as pretreatment...
AMS6/IMSTEC10 BEST POSTER AWARD
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Zenah Bradford Hartke (Ph.D), Anusha Kola (Ph.D) and Sun Lin (M.E) from the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology have won best poster awards at the AMS6/IMSTEC10 (The 6th conference of...
PhD & Masters Scholarship - CO2CRC (UNSW)
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
The School of Chemical Engineering and School of Petroleum Engineering at the University of New South Wales has a significant research group headed by Prof. Dianne Wiley investigating the economics...