News List

April 2025 - Congratulations to Adam and Kyle, who alongside Heather and Daniel from the Stover and Adronov groups respectively are recipients of the 2025 BIMR Future Materials Innovators Award. The title of their winning proposal is "Carbon Nanotube Decorated Photocrosslinked Microgels as pH and Temperature Sensors", and we look forward to hearing about their progress!

April 2025 - Evelyn and Strahinya presented their thesis work at this year's thesis day! Evelyn won the 2nd place award in the Polymers and Materials section. Both had amazing presentations!

March 2025 - Evelyn and Strahinya attended the 53rd Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference hosted by Guelph University this year. Congratulations to Evelyn for winning a presentation award!

March 2025 - Congratulations to Dusan for passing his comprehensive exam!

January 2025 - Congratulations to Anjilee for successfully defending her Masters Thesis!!

December 2024 - Group dinner to celebrate Fariha's new position as Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Congratulations to both Anjilee and Dusan for winning Teaching Assistant Awards in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology!!

June 2024 - Congratulations to Dr. Fariha and Kevin on receiving their respective degrees at convocation today, PhD for Fariha, and MSc for Kevin!

June 2024 - Congratulations to Abeera for her excellent presentation at CREST 2024, and to Kyle and Anjilee who presented their work at Photonics North in Vancouver!

June 2024 - Recent publication titled "Interplay of Luminophores and Photoinitiators during Synthesis of Bulk and Patterned Luminescent Photopolymer Blends", a collaboration with Dr. Rachael Evans' Photoactive Materials Group from the University of Cambridge, has been selected as an ACS Editor's Choice article! Congratulations Kathryn, Dr. Kalai, and all involved.

May 2024 - Congratulations to Anjilee for placing first in the Chemistry Colloquium! Anjilee has also been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS). Congratulations Anjilee!!

May 2024 - We welcome Curtis Choy to the group! Recipient of an Audrey Cameron award, Curtis will be working with the group during the summer.

December 2023 - Kevin successfully defended his Masters Thesis! Congratulations Kevin!!

December 2023 - Anjilee attended the Graduate Student Symposium at McMaster University and presented a wonderful poster.

December 2023 - Kathryn officially becomes Dr. Benincasa!!

December 2023 - Congratulations Fariha on an amazing doctoral thesis defence!

September 2023 - Pleasure hosting Dr. Rachel Evans, a collaborator from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Evans also presented a great talk for the BIMR seminar series.

September 2023 - Everyone found out what Fariha actually does at her PhD Seminar. Wonderful presentation!

June 2023 - Kevin and Dusan presented their work at the 25th Photonics North conference, hosted in Montreal, Quebec this year.

June 2023 - Kathryn and Fariha presented posters at the 16th International conference on materials chemistry (MC16), hosted in Dublin, Ireland! Kathryn also received a prize for her poster.

June 2023 - Congratulations to Dr. Benincasa for successfully defending her doctoral thesis!