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ICFAR is back to normal operations
Tue, 04/17/2018
Dr Xu has been elected Fellow of Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC)
Tue, 04/17/2018
ICFAR IS CLOSED TODAY, April 16, 2018
Mon, 04/16/2018
ICFAR in the London Free Press: Worth-from-waste project
Tue, 03/06/2018
Doug Cuthbertson successfully defended his MESc Thesis
Fri, 01/19/2018
Devon J. Barry successfully defended his MESc Thesis
Fri, 01/19/2018
Yohann Cochet successfully passed his comprehensive examination
Tue, 01/09/2018
Brett Pomeroy successfully defended his MESc Thesis!
Tue, 12/12/2017
Yuan Li successfully passed her comprensive examination!
Tue, 12/12/2017
Yuan Li successfully defended her comprensive examination!
Tue, 12/12/2017
Muhammad Owais Iqbal Bhatti successfully defended his MESc Thesis!
Thu, 10/05/2017
Luana Dessbesell successfully defended her comprehensive examination!
Wed, 09/27/2017
F. Berruti co-authored a paper that was selected one of the two best papers published in 2016
Fri, 09/01/2017
Afsana Sara Kabir successfully defended her Masters Thesis!
Fri, 09/01/2017
Franco Berruti has organized and co-chaired a successful ECI Conference
Mon, 08/28/2017
Ghazaleh Chegini has successfully passed her comprehensive examination!
Tue, 08/15/2017
New People at ICFAR in July
Wed, 07/05/2017
A warm welcome to the students who started May 2017
Wed, 05/24/2017
Xuelian (Cher) Xing passed her comprehensive exam!
Fri, 05/05/2017
Xuelian (Cher) Xing passed her comprehensive exam!
Fri, 05/05/2017
Majid successfully defend his PhD thesis!!
Fri, 04/28/2017
Dominic Pjontek has been awarded an NSERC-CRD grant!
Thu, 04/27/2017
ICFAR will host: The Waste-to-Resources Innovation Research and Development Program: Fostering a Circular Economy
Wed, 03/15/2017
December 13, 2016 - ICFAR welcomes the Minister of Research, Innovation and Science to a well-attended meeting, Conversion of Biomass and Residues into Marketable Products, at West Haven Golf & Country Club.
Mon, 01/23/2017
ICFAR congratulates one of its faculty members, Dr. Jason Gerhard, for winning the Award for Excellence in Teaching
Thu, 12/15/2016
Lingchao (Ben) Li successfully defended his Master thesis
Tue, 09/27/2016
Sadra Souzanchi, he successfully defended his PhD Thesis!
Wed, 08/17/2016
Shona Macintyre successfully defended her MESc Thesis!
Thu, 08/11/2016
Laleh Nazari successfully defended her PhD Thesis!
Thu, 08/11/2016
Tao Shui, he successfully defended his MESc Thesis!
Wed, 08/03/2016
Bing Li, he successfully defended his PhD Thesis!
Wed, 07/20/2016
MESC Student Doug Cuthbertson wins first place in poster competition!
Fri, 06/17/2016
Saber successfully defended his MESc Thesis
Wed, 05/18/2016
ICFAR Professor Dominic Pjontek wins the Maurice Bergougnou Teaching Award
Mon, 04/18/2016
Delivery and testing of the Jumbo Mechanically Fluidized Reactor (MFR) from ICFAR to La Tuque, Québec
Mon, 04/18/2016
MESc Student Tao Shui wins first place!
Wed, 03/23/2016
Mohammad completed his PhD defence
Tue, 03/01/2016
Franco, Dongbing and Mohammad attended the ECI Conference in Chiana, Greece
Thu, 10/08/2015
ICFAR welcomes new students for the Fall term!
Wed, 09/02/2015
Cheng Guo has successfully defended her MESc thesis!
Fri, 08/14/2015
Helal Elkolaly has successfully defended his MESc thesis
Tue, 08/04/2015
Liliana Pardo Reyes has successfully defended her MESc thesis!
Tue, 07/28/2015
Anastasia Colomba has successfully defended her PhD thesis!
Mon, 07/27/2015
Matthew Tymchyshyn has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled
Wed, 07/08/2015
June 2015 Convocation
Sat, 06/20/2015
Valentina Lago has successfully defended her PhD thesis
Thu, 04/23/2015
Martin Successfully defends his PhD Thesis!!
Wed, 04/22/2015
2 ICFAR students Present at Paperweek
Thu, 02/05/2015
Shuttle bus to ICFAR delayed until 10am
Mon, 02/02/2015
Charles Xu to present at the 2015 International Forest Biorefinery Summit
Mon, 02/02/2015
Register for IndustryConnect FIBRE Regional Meeting
Tue, 01/27/2015
Majid Hamidi successfully defended his PhD thesis
Thu, 01/22/2015
Cedric Briens turns "Guck into Gold"
Fri, 01/16/2015
Jamie Gregory successfully defended his MESc Thesis!
Fri, 01/16/2015
Franco Berruti attended the Specialists’ Workshop on Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass
Sat, 01/10/2015
ICFAR Closure - Wed, Jan 7, 2015
Wed, 01/07/2015
Nubla Mahmood and Yongsheng (Ryan) Zhang successfully defended there PhD Theses!
Thu, 12/18/2014
Maryam Mohagheghi Dar Ranji successfully defended her PhD Thesis!!
Wed, 11/19/2014
Congratulations to Clayton on successfully defending his MESc Thesis
Wed, 09/10/2014
ICFAR welcomes its new students for September 2014
Tue, 09/02/2014
Congratulations to Shima Ahmadi and Shanhua (Raymond) Huang!
Fri, 08/29/2014
Alejandro successfully defended his MESc thesis!
Thu, 08/21/2014
Congratulations to Nicholas Prociw for successfully defending his MESc Thesis!
Thu, 07/03/2014
Congratulations to Charles Xu for his promotion to Full Professor!!
Thu, 07/03/2014
Congratulations to Cedric Briens for being awarded a Senior Industrial Research Chair
Wed, 07/02/2014
Welcome to our newest Faculty Member Dominic Pjontek
Tue, 07/01/2014
ICFAR contributes to the Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse Conference
Mon, 06/23/2014
Dominic Pjontec has successfully defended his PhD thesis and will join ICFAR as Assistant Professor on July 1, 2014
Mon, 06/23/2014
ICFAR attends and presents at the 2014 Pyrolysis Conference (Pyro 2014)
Mon, 06/23/2014
ICFAR attends the BioFuelNet Advanced Biofuels Symposium (2014)
Thu, 05/29/2014
ICFAR welcomes new students, Spring 2014
Sat, 05/10/2014
ICFAR attends and presents at the 4th Annual Congress on Green Process Engineering
Tue, 04/22/2014
First Place Winners!
Wed, 04/09/2014
Congratulations to Faculty Members at ICFAR!
Mon, 04/07/2014
ICFAR is hiring a Techincal Specialist
Wed, 03/19/2014
Dr. Charles Xu recieves the Mandarin Profile Award
Mon, 03/17/2014
Nubla Mahmood wins the First Place Poster Award!!
Mon, 03/10/2014
ICFAR is proud to host the Forest Biorefinery (NSERC Industrial Research Chair and Ontario Research Fund) annual general meeting on January 7, 2014.
Mon, 01/06/2014
ICFAR will be open today, Monday January 6, 2014
Mon, 01/06/2014
Homaira Siddiqui successfully defended her MESc thesis!
Thu, 12/19/2013
Francisco Javier Sanchez Careaga has successfully defended his PhD thesis
Wed, 12/11/2013
We warmly welcome the following 4 visiting graduate students (research) to ICFAR
Mon, 11/18/2013
CBE Graduate Seminar Series 2013-2014 announces "Speaker of the Month" for October 2013
Tue, 11/05/2013
ICFAR welcomes....
Mon, 11/04/2013
Welcome to the BioFuelNet Central Platform Meeting Participants on Oct 23, 2013
Tue, 10/22/2013
Congratulations to Ryan Lance who has successfully defended his Master thesis
Thu, 09/19/2013
Two new Post Doctoral Fellows starting at ICFAR this week!
Mon, 09/16/2013
ICFAR students who have defended their thesis, Congratulations!!
Mon, 09/16/2013
Franco Berruti is the recipent of an award
Fri, 09/06/2013
Student Successes at ICFAR!!
Fri, 09/06/2013
A warm welcome to those starting at ICFAR in September 2013
Tue, 09/03/2013
Congratulations to Izad Behnia on the successful defense of his MESc thesis.
Thu, 08/22/2013
Congratulations to Ehsan Reyhanitash on the successful defense of his MESc thesis.
Thu, 08/22/2013
Congratulations to Carolina Morales on the successful defense of her thesis.
Mon, 08/19/2013
ICFAR in other parts of the world
Fri, 06/21/2013
BioEnergy IV Conference June 9-14, 2013
Thu, 06/20/2013
ICFAR team participates to the International Fluidization Conference
Fri, 05/31/2013
A warm welcome to those working at ICFAR this summer
Wed, 05/29/2013
Distinguished Professor Roland Clift visits ICFAR May 1 & 2, 2013
Mon, 04/29/2013
ICFAR welcomes a new Adjunct faculty member!
Mon, 04/22/2013
Article on UK-Canada Research Network
Wed, 03/27/2013
A profile of ICFAR is in the latest Western Engineering Research e-Newsletter
Wed, 03/20/2013
Congratulations to Federico Berruti for his article in Canadian Biomass Magazine
Mon, 02/25/2013
ICFAR IS CLOSED TODAY -Friday, February 8, 2012
Fri, 02/08/2013
Newest members of ICFAR!
Fri, 01/04/2013
Mitesh Chaudhari has successfully defended his MESc Thesis on December 17, 2012.
Tue, 12/18/2012
Two ICFAR students Successfully defende MESC Theses!
Tue, 12/11/2012
ICFAR welcomes a new postdoctoral fellow
Tue, 12/11/2012
Dr. Franco Berruti receives Engineering Prize for Achievement in Research
Tue, 12/11/2012
ICFAR Affiliate Member Receives Major Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Fri, 11/30/2012
ICFAR hosts International Symposium October 18 and 19, 2012
Tue, 10/16/2012
Dr. Franco Berruti receives an award!
Mon, 10/15/2012
Mithun Saha successfully defended his MESc Thesis
Wed, 09/19/2012
Article from "tec Sustainability" magazine, featuring Franco Berrutie from ICFAR
Fri, 09/14/2012
ICFAR welcomes new Students in September
Mon, 08/27/2012
ICFAR welcomes Professor Yasou Ohtsuka
Tue, 07/31/2012
Newest visiting students at ICFAR
Tue, 07/31/2012
New Research Techician hired!
Mon, 07/16/2012
ICFAR welcomes a new visiting student.
Mon, 07/16/2012
New Research Techician hired!
Mon, 07/16/2012
ICFAR welcomes a new Financial Administrative Assistant! Karen McDonald!
Fri, 06/22/2012
Emergency Exercise this morning
Mon, 05/14/2012
Mohammadali (Ali) Zirgachianzadeh has successfully defended his MESc thesis
Wed, 05/09/2012
Student Changes at ICFAR in May!
Thu, 05/03/2012
Mohammad Latifi has successfully defended his PhD thesis
Tue, 04/24/2012
Masoumeh Farkhondehkavaki has successfully defended her PhD thesis!
Tue, 04/10/2012
Jerusalem Artichoke Research at ICFAR brings in funding provided by the Sand Plains Community Development Fund
Mon, 03/26/2012
ICFAR welcomes new PhD student, Flora Cao
Tue, 01/10/2012
ICFAR welcomes a new visiting Student
Wed, 01/04/2012
ICFAR OPEN
Tue, 01/03/2012
ICFAR welcomes 2 new students, starting in January
Wed, 12/21/2011
Another network in the works for ICFAR
Tue, 12/20/2011
ICFAR will be closed December 24, 2011 - January 2, 2012...
Tue, 12/20/2011
Happy Holidays from ICFAR
Tue, 12/20/2011
*OPEN HOUSE * Environmental Science Western Field Station from 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12
Mon, 11/07/2011
Welcome new Visiting Graduate Student Alberto Sacchetto
Tue, 11/01/2011
Strong representation from ICFAR at the tcbiomass 2011 conference in Chicago
Thu, 10/20/2011
Student representing Lignoworks at conference!
Mon, 10/17/2011
Mohammad Hossain successfully defended his MESc thesis!!
Mon, 10/17/2011
Replacing oil with apple cores
Mon, 10/03/2011
Xu named new forest biorefinery Chair
Mon, 10/03/2011
Special Announcement at ICFAR on Monday
Mon, 10/03/2011
We welcome Dongbing Li, joining us as a Post Doctoral Fellow.
Tue, 09/27/2011
We are very pleased to welcome Eugenio de Souza Morita as a visiting graduate student.
Tue, 09/27/2011
We welcome Robert Condotta to ICFAR!
Tue, 09/27/2011
Berruti awarded for contributions to green chemistry and engineering
Fri, 09/23/2011
ICFAR welcomes 7 new students!
Thu, 09/01/2011
Please welcome Carolina Morales to ICFAR
Mon, 08/29/2011
ICFAR welcomes new MESc Student Carolina Morales
Thu, 08/25/2011
ICFAR/Agri-Therm in recent news
Mon, 08/22/2011
Franco Berruti wins the The Ontario Green Chemistry and Engineering Award!!
Wed, 08/17/2011
ICFAR welcomes Claudio Silva Lira and João Paulo da Silva, visiting students from Unicamp, Brazil.
Wed, 08/03/2011
Qi Zhang successfully defended his MESc Thesis on “Improving Jet Attrition in Fluidized Beds” on August 3, 2011.
Wed, 08/03/2011
Ontario Research Funds grant (ORF) Franco Berruti and co-applicants Cedric Briens & Charles Xu $1M
Thu, 07/28/2011
Undergrad student, Tom Butler, wins Community Energy Challenge
Thu, 07/14/2011
Dr. Charles Xu, winner of the 2011 Syncrude Canada Innovation Award!
Fri, 06/24/2011
ICFAR welcomes Carole Baddour, a postdoctoral fellow with Agri-Therm
Wed, 06/15/2011
ICFAR welcomes 2 Visiting Professors
Wed, 06/15/2011
Congratulations to Emhemmed Youssef for completing his PhD!
Wed, 06/15/2011
ICFAR welcomes 12 new people
Wed, 05/11/2011
Feng Li successfully defended his PhD Thesis on “Particle Attrition with Supersonic Nozzles in a High Temperature Fluidized Bed” on April 26, 2011. Congratulations, Feng!
Tue, 04/26/2011
As of April 11th, Lorenzo Ferrante joined ICFAR as a Senior Research Engineer
Tue, 04/26/2011
Maryam Mohagheghi Dar Ranji has successfully completed her PhD Comprehensive Examination on April 25, 2011. Congratulations, Maryam!
Mon, 04/25/2011
Matt Klaas successfully defended his MESc Thesis on “Investigating Potential Pathways to Optimize the Effectiveness of the Pyrolysis Process” on April 21, 2011. Congratulations, Matt!
Thu, 04/21/2011
Craig Mara successfully defended his MESc Thesis on “An Investigation Of Biochar Removal Systems for Pyrolysis Reactors” on April 21, 2011. Congratulations, Craig!
Thu, 04/21/2011
Flora Parveen successfully defended her MESc Thesis
Mon, 04/11/2011
US patent application submitted
Wed, 03/30/2011
ICFAR Supports Biofuel Commercialization Opportunities
Tue, 03/29/2011
BIC and ICFAR agree to collaborate
Wed, 01/26/2011
Memorandum of Understanding Signed between ICFAR and Bioindustrial Innovation Centre (Sarnia)
Thu, 01/13/2011
ICFAR gains International Exposure!
Tue, 11/30/2010
Cedric Briens talks to The Economist magazine
Tue, 11/30/2010
Franco Berruti talks to MacLeans Magazine about ABIN research
Fri, 10/29/2010
ICFAR in local news!
Tue, 10/12/2010
ICFAR members present at the TCS 2010 Symposium on Thermal and Catalytic Sciences for Biofuels and Biobased products
Thu, 09/23/2010
ICFAR wishes Federico Berruti well as he embarks on an exciting 4 month collaborative research placement at the Universidad de Zaragoza (UNIZAR), in Zaragoza, Spain.
Wed, 09/08/2010
Congratulations to Professor Paul Charpentier, for his award from the Western Innovation Fund
Wed, 09/01/2010
Welcome to Akhil Tumbalam Gooty, new MESc student who will be worknig on the fractional condensation of bio-oil vapors
Wed, 09/01/2010
Congratulations to Martin Huard for the award of a MITACS Accelerate PhD Fellowship.
Wed, 08/18/2010
Congratulations to Feng Li for the award of a MITACS Accelerate scholarship.
Wed, 08/18/2010
Welcome to Dr. Javeed Mohammad, new post-doc fellow who will be working on the production of high value products from biomass
Thu, 07/01/2010
Welcome to Dr. Pietro Palmisano, new post-doc fellow who will be working on lignin pyrolysis
Thu, 07/01/2010
Congratulations to Paul Charpentier on his recent successes!!!
Thu, 06/03/2010
Congratulations to Federico Berruti on being awarded the prestigious Vanier Graduate Scholarship
Thu, 05/13/2010
Mohammad Latifi has been awarded the second prize for "Best Presentation"
Thu, 05/06/2010
Welcome to Dr. Tarek Jamaleddine, new post-doc fellow who will be working on jet attrition
Mon, 05/03/2010
Welcome to the following students who started May 1, 2010.
Sat, 05/01/2010
Congratulations to Ran Xu.
Mon, 04/26/2010
Garret Book successfully defended his MESc thesis
Thu, 04/01/2010
ICFAR gets a mention in the GlobeCampus ‘In the news’ section
Thu, 03/25/2010
Welcome Rob Taylor.
Wed, 02/03/2010
Welcome to Dr. Mehran Solimani
Mon, 02/01/2010
Recent Articles about ICFAR
Mon, 01/04/2010
Martin Huard successfully defended his MESc thesis
Fri, 12/11/2009
ICFAR's Grand Opening
Fri, 10/16/2009
Franco Berruti and Cedric Briens attended the tcbiomass2009 conference in Chicago
Fri, 09/25/2009
Rana Sabouni successfully defended her MESc thesis
Tue, 08/11/2009
Sarah Weber successfully defended her PhD
Mon, 08/10/2009
Aidan Leach successfully defended his MESc thesis
Fri, 07/31/2009
Bright Ideas: ICFAR Makes local news.
Sat, 07/11/2009
Nestor Cruz successfully defended his MESc thesis
Mon, 07/06/2009
2nd International Congress on Green Process Engineering
Sun, 06/14/2009
Bashar Hadi successfully defended his PhD thesis
Sat, 06/13/2009
Welcome to our new students
Fri, 06/12/2009
Welcome to our new post-doctoral fellows
Thu, 06/11/2009
Capstone Research Projects
Wed, 06/10/2009
Awards for ICFAR students
Tue, 06/09/2009
Dr. Cedric Briens has been selected to serve on the American Shale Oil (AMSO) Technical Advisory Board.
Thu, 04/30/2009
ICFAR welcomes 12 new members to its "family"
Tue, 04/28/2009
Government of Canada invites 17 Canadian universities to compete for prestigious Canada Excellence Research Chairs
Thu, 04/23/2009
Western Engineering Design Days - Final Presentation
Wed, 04/22/2009
Welcome to our new students
Mon, 04/20/2009
ABIN Funding Announcement
Thu, 03/19/2009
Rohan Bedmutha accepts job at Lignol in Vancouver
Fri, 01/02/2009
8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering. August 23-27, 2009
Sat, 08/30/2008
Bio-Innovation
Sat, 08/30/2008
NSERC Collaborative Research Grant
Fri, 08/01/2008
Funding Announcement
Thu, 07/03/2008
Market Readiness Grant
Tue, 07/01/2008
CBC National Radio Interview
Mon, 06/30/2008
Ontario Centres of Excellence Grant
Sat, 06/28/2008
NSERC Strategic Research Grant
Wed, 06/25/2008
NSERC Collaborative Research Grant
Fri, 06/20/2008
 

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