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Upcoming Events

 

EASTMAN CHEMICAL - BPI Industry Partner Dialogue

November 4, 2021

DATE & TIME November 4th 2021 Thursday 12pm-1pm PDT ABOUT THE EVENT Eastman Chemical Company, a global leader in renewable textiles and bioplastics industry, is coming to BPI to connect with researchers and graduate students to share insights and explore possible collaboration opportunities. Dr...

BPI Open House

November 26, 2021

DATE & TIME Friday November 26th, 12pm-2pm LOCATION Pulp & Paper Center, 2385 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 ABOUT THE EVENT BPI is hosting an Open House event to celebrate the newly renovated PPC building! For more than three decades, the center has facilitated numerous award-winning...

EDII in Research

December 2, 2021

DATE & TIME December 2nd, Thursday | 2pm-3pm PST LOCATION On Zoom : The meeting link will be emailed to you closer to the date. ABOUT THE EVENT Embedding Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigeneity (EDI.I) in the BPI Research Program Calling all BPI Faculty, Researchers and Students! You are...

32nd International Mechanical Pulping Conference

June 5, 2022 to June 8, 2022

Save the Date for the IMPC 2022! Mark your calendar, the 32nd International Mechanical Pulping Conference is coming to Vancouver, Canada next year! The registration will open in February 2022 and the abstract submission in September 2021. Stay tuned for further announcement. Tentative Program...

 

Latest News

 

DR. SOWLATI RECEIVES 2021 BEST NATURAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION AWARD

October 24, 2021

Congratulations to Professor Taraneh Sowlati on receiving the 2021 Best Publication Award in Natural Resources from The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Energy, Natural Resources & The Environment section (ENRE).

DR. JIANG RECEIVES KINGFA YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

October 24, 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Feng Jiang, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Sustainable Functional Biomaterials, who was recently named this year’s recipient of the American Chemical Society’s CELLulose and Renewable Materials Division (ACS CELL) KINGFA Young Investigator Award.

THE FIRST EXCHANGE STUDENTS FROM FINLAND ARRIVED

October 8, 2021

This September, BPI welcomed Doctoral candidate Rubina Ajdary and Postdoctoral researcher Joice Kaschuk arriving from Aalto University in Finland to begin their 6-month exchange program at UBC under the Boreal Alliance initiative. This exchange marks the first of many collaborations of academic...