Daily Archives: November 25, 2013

Christmas Party 2013 Invitation

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Hello everyone from CHBE,

It is almost the end of the term, and CHBE Grad Club is excited to announce this year’s Christmas Party to be held on December 11. The party takes place at UBC’s one of the most attractive locations, Cecil Green Park House! In addition to traditional dinner party, the 90th birthday of Professor Norman Epstein will be celebrated. Your spouse/partner is invited, too. Space is limited; hence please RSVP by filling up this doodle: http://www.doodle.com/9i8nyatdcc994n8z before December 6.

Location: Cecil Green Park House
University of British Columbia,
6251 Cecil Green Park Road
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1
www.cecilgreenpark.ubc.ca

Date: December 11, 2013

Time: 5:30PM-9:30PM

Ticket Price: Early Bird price of $10 will be offered to first 40 people who register! Regular price of $15 will be charged to everyone else. Payment must be made in cash to Jun (CHBE 503) or Ehsan (CHBE 623).

We will keep you updated with the final details of this through the Grad Club blog [ https://blogs.ubc.ca/chbegsc/ ] and Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/chbegsc/ ].

Cheers,
CHBE Graduate Student Club

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CHBE GSC Professional Development Speaker Series – Nov 27 – Dr. Shahab Sokhansanj

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Hi everyone,

The Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Club is organizing a seminar series where the faculty members of our department share the stories of achieving their first faculty positions as well as making
important career decisions. These highly interactive seminars provide an excellent opportunity to hear instructing, exciting and valuable experiences of our faculty members and can prove very helpful in developing skills necessary for professional work environments in academia and industry.

We are pleased to announce Dr. Shahab Sokhansanj as the speaker of the upcoming seminar in the series. Dr. Sokhansanj P.Eng. is a distinguished research and development staff at Oak Ridge National laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He is also a Professor emeritus  University of Saskatchewan and adjunct Professor University of British Columbia. His expertise is in harvest and post harvest engineering of biomaterials. Dr. Sokhansanj  is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Bioengineering and a Fellow of American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers, and Fellow of Engineers Canada.

For more information about Dr. Sokhansanj please see the attached files and,

http://www.chbe.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/sokhansanj.php

In this presentation, he will share his experiences of a professional career and the challenge to balance research, teaching and personal interests

The seminar information:

 Date: November 27, 2013
 Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
 Place: CHBE 2.02

We hope to see you there.

Thank you,

CHBE GSC

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