Victoria Anson, a fourth-year materials engineering student, won The Lord Bagri Scholarship, the highest award granted by The Copper Club. Endowed in honor of Lord Bagri, the longest serving chairman in the history of the London Metal Exchange, this competitive Canada-USA award recognizes an exceptional undergraduate or graduate student who has excelled in studies essential to the copper industry’s future.
Victoria Anson, a fourth-year Materials Engineering Co-op Program student, received the Lucy Rosato Undergraduate Scholarship in Science and Engineering at the 63rd Annual Conference of Metallurgists (COM 2024) in Halifax. This is the highest undergraduate student award granted by the Hydrometallurgy Section of the Metallurgy and Materials Society (MetSoc) under the Canadian Institute of Mining Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM).
10 May 2024, 1 pm - 5 pm, Leacock Building Room- 232
June 5 to 7, 2023
McGill University
M.H. Wong Building
3610 Rue University
Room 1020
5 May 2023, 3 pm, Wong 1030
We invite you to join us for our special seminar by Professor James McGettrick (Swansea University, UK), who will talk about XPS & UPS analyses of Roll-to-roll slot-die coated perovskite solar cells. The seminar will be at 3 pm on May 5 in Wong 1030.
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12 May 2023, 2 pm - 5 pm, LM Trottier Building (ENGTR) - Room 0100
We kindly invite you to join us for our first Mining and Materials Engineering Research Day. The event will feature a seminar by Professor Gisele Azimi (University of Toronto), who will present her work on rare earth element recovery from secondary resources. The seminar will start at 2 pm in LM Trottier Building (ENGTR), Room 0100 and will be followed by a a graduate student awards ceremony and a poster session with a reception showing research from our department and beyond!
Prof. Marta Cerruti of the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering received the My Green Lab Certification from McGill Office of Sustainability (MOOS), which recognizes the green lab practices in her lab (Biointerfaces Cerruti Lab) over the last few months.
Her group achieved a certification score of 74% and a Platinum Level Certificate, a formidable achievement.
Prof. Marta Cerruti of the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering was awarded an Acta Biomaterialia Reviewer Award for 2022 for her outstanding reviews of submitted manuscripts to Acta Biomaterialia, a prestigious journal in biomaterials research!
Our Mining grad Will Dixon (B.Eng. ’20) has received a Schwarzman Scholarship for graduate study in China. Dixon is one of just 151 students to receive the prestigious scholarship for 2023-2024.
The Schwarzman Scholarship program offers recipients a one-year, fully funded Master’s degree program in Global Affairs at Schwarzman College on the campus of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Congratulations to MMPC Associate Director, Dr Mihaiela Isac
Please view the links to the awards below:
https://www.metsoc.org/metsoc-award-for-research-excellence/
Nine McGillians are in the running for a spot in the second year of Canada’s first comprehensive leadership-based scholarship for master’s and professional studies
Meet the McGill finalists: https://reporter.mcgill.ca/mccall-macbain-scholarships-announce-50-finalists-2/
McGill Centre for Innovation in Conversion & Storage of Energy (McISCE) founded earlier with the involvement of several of our professors is the recipient of a generous gift from the TD Bank Group! Read more at these links:
English: https://giving.mcgill.ca/all-stories/powering-solutions-healthier-planet
To prevent the spread of COVID-19 indoors, the two metres physical distancing guideline is not enough without masks, according to researchers from Quebec, Illinois, and Texas. However, wearing a mask indoors can reduce the contamination range of airborne particles by about 67 percent.
Congratulations to Professor Steve Yue on being recognized as one of the 2% most-cited world scientists working in the area of thermal spray research. Read more in the recent issue of Advanced Materials & Processes linked to below.
Prof. Mathieu Brochu is the winner of the 2021 MetSoc Distinguished Materials Scientist Award
https://www.metsoc.org/metsoc-distinguished-materials-scientist-award/