This weekend, Tina, Kin, and Jessica competed into Hot Laps River Relay, running a combined 11km!

This week, Chalisa gave her final research presentation and successfully defended her thesis titled "Electric-Field Assisted Generation and Characterization of Ozone Nanobubbles for Water Purification"!

It is time for Edgar, our visiting undergraduate student from the University of Glasgow, to head home and continue his studies! We wish him the best as he finishes his MSci (Undergraduate Master's)!

A big congratulations to our two Winter 2026 graduates Julia and Atlas! Julia has collected her MSc in Chemistry and Atlas has collected his BSc in Chemistry, each after putting in hard work advancing research on disinfectant byproducts. The lab wishes them the best as they move forward in their careers!

During March, the group participated in a chemistry graduate student scavenger hunt for St. Patrick's Day and won the first place prize!

On Monday, Julia presented at the chemistry research seminar on her thesis paper titled "Chlorination and bromination of nucleobases: the role of cytosine and adenine in the formation of disinfectant byproducts." Later in the week, Julia successfully defended her thesis and nearly completing her MSc.

Tina competed at UCalgary's 2026 Postdoc Research Slam with her presentation titled "Listening to Nanobubbles: Speed of Sound Metrology for Low-Energy Nanobubble Water Treatment" where she made it to the top twelve finalists and was awarded second place.

Dr Susana in the UCIDE podcast discussed about her career pathway from engineering to chemistry and her experience with EDI in academia, past and present. She also talked about impostor syndrome, and explore tips on how to overcome it. ( For more... Click here )

Thilina presented her poster in sci-mix poster session and get acknowledged for her talk as a best student presenter in Disinfection...