Western Today March 30,1999 and Western News April 1,1999

Engineering  Professor Earns National Award

"Chemical and biochemical engineering professor Jesse Zhu has won a major national award.

Zhu will be the recipient of the 1999 Syncrude Canada Innovation Award from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. This award is given annually to 'outstanding chemical engineer under age 40 for a distinguished contribution in chemical engineering while working in Canada'.  

Zhu was selected for his world-renowned research on fluidization and fluid-particle systems, his dedication to the education of young chemical engineers and his contributions to the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering.

The award will be presented at the 49th Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering conference in Saskatoon in October. The recipient of this award is invited to give a plenary lecture at the conference and also present an award paper in the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering."  

This award is established by the Provincial Government of Ontario to recognize the excellence of research.

Western News January 13, 2000

Research excellence celebrated

Award-winners lauded by Premier Harris

Some of Western's outstanding award-winning researchers were honored at the gala Premier's Research Excellence Awards celebration in Toronto. Fourteen Western winners of Premier's research Excellence Awards were lauded by Premier Mike Harris, along with several other distinguished 1999-winers invited to the celebration.

The PREA program helps world-class researchers attract talented people to their teams. Each award consists of $100,000 from the province and $50,000 from matching sources.

This award is given annually to about 20 overseas young Chinese scholars, who are recognized as world leading researchers and have made extraordinary contributions in their research fields. Each recipient is also given a RMB 400,000 research grant over 3 years to establish a collaborative research base within a partner university in China.

This award is given annually to one researcher in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Western Ontario, to recognize the excellent research contributions made in the past year.

This research chair position is established by the Government of Province of Ontario through the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund "CORDCF".

Prof. Zhu named Senior Ontario Research Chair December 2000

In a news conference on December 18, 2000 at the University of Western Ontario, Minister of Energy, Science and Technology Jim Wilson and Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities Diane Cunningham made the announcement to award Prof. Zhu an Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund, to establish a Research Chair Program in Ultrafine Powder Technology. This Research Chair Program was co-sponsored by Glaxo-SmithKline, Liffey Custom Coatings and other industrial partners. A total of over 4.8 million dollars was awarded for research projects in fundamental studies on ultrafine powder technology and its application to pulmonary drug delivery, ultrafine powder coating and other areas. Prof. Zhu was named the senior chairholder.

This award is established by the Chinese Community in Ontario to recognize the contributions by the awardee to the Canadian Society.

This award is given to distinguished overseas Chinese scholars, who are recognized as world leaders in their research field.  The recipient is also given a RMB 500,000 research grant over 3 years to collaborate with a research institute in the Chinese Academy of Science.

The Canada Research Chairs Program stands at the centre of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top five countries for research and development. In 2000, the Government of Canada allocated $900 million to establish 2,000 research professorships (Canada Research Chairs) in universities across the country. Chairholders advance the frontiers of knowledge in their fields, not only through their own work, but also by teaching and supervising students and coordinating the work of other researchers.

• Strengthen research excellence in Canada and increase Canada's research capacity by attracting and retaining the best researchers; 
• Improve the training of highly qualified personnel through research;
• Improve universities' capacity to generate and apply new knowledge;
• Promote the best possible use of research resources through strategic institutional planning, and through collaboration among institutions and between sectors.

Tier 1 Chairs, tenable for seven years and renewable, are for outstanding researchers acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their fields. For each Tier 1 Chair, the university receives $200,000 annually for seven years.

This is given yearly to a chemical engineer who has made outstanding contributions to Canadian Chemical Engineeringfor innovative design or production activities.