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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Sarah Brown to host Ingenious Talks Online session

Sarah will present her ongoing research at the Urbandale Centre for Home Energy Research during this online talk.  An interview with Sarah and further details on her talk can be seen... More

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Rebecca Pinto receives Gabriel David Warshaw Memorial Scholarship

Congratulations to Rebecca Pinto on being awarded the Gabriel David Warshaw Memorial Scholarship.  The scholarship is awarded annually to an outstanding graduate student in either the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, aspiring to a career based on the peaceful and environmentally respectful... More

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Lumi Dumitrascu wins IBPSA-Canada travel award

Lumi Dumitrascu won an IBPSA-Canada student travel award. This award will support Lumi to present her work on ground reflectivity at the Building Simulation Conference 2020, in... More

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Sarah Brown receives Alexander Graham Bell scholarship

Sarah Brown has been awarded the NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS D). The CGS D is awarded to top-ranked applicants for their "academic excellence, research ability or potential, and communication, interpersonal and leadership abilities." This award will support Sarah's research into a novel system that... More

Friday, August 2, 2019

Renewal of RDH Research Scholarship for Rebecca Pinto

Congratulations to Rebecca Pinto on being awarded a first renewal of the RDH Research Scholarship. The scholarship was awarded by RDH Building Science and was open to students completing their master’s or doctoral degrees in building science... More

Monday, May 6, 2019

Swiss ambassador to Canada visits CHEeR

Salome Meyer, Ambassador of Switzerland to Canada, met with Ian Beausoleil-Morrison and Sarah Brown to learn about the research we are conducting at the CHEeR facility:... More

Friday, November 16, 2018

Sarah Brown receives Tyler Lewis grant

PhD student Sarah Brown has been selected as one of three recipients of this year's Tyler Lewis Clean Energy Research Foundation's 10 000 $ grants.  The Tyler Lewis Clean Energy Research Grant is meant to provide financial support to graduate students at Canadian Universities conducting research in the field of clean energy.  Recipients are... More

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

CHEeR research presented at EuroSun 2018

Curtis Meister presented a paper on his seasonal storage research at the EuroSun 2018 conference in Rapperswil, Switzerland.  The paper summarizes preliminary results of operating CHEeR's buried seasonal storage tank over a full heating season.  The research was highlighted in the closing ceremony of the... More

Friday, August 31, 2018

Nina Dmytrenko defends her MASc thesis

Nina Dmytrenko successfully defenced her MASc thesis on the topic of rock-bed thermal storage for air-source heat pumps. Her thesis will soon be available on this... More

Monday, August 20, 2018

Lumi Dumitrascu defends her MASc thesis

Lumi Dumitrascu successfully defenced her MASc thesis on the topic of modelling the solar reflectivity of the ground.  Her thesis will soon be available on this... More

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change visits

Catherine McKenna, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change, visited the Urbandale Centre for Home Energy Research to learn about our ongoing research focused on maximizing the use of solar energy in... More

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Rebecca Pinto wins RDH scholarship

SBES PhD student Rebecca Pinto was one of the three successful winners of a scholarship from RDH Building Science Inc. The scholarship competition was held across the USA and Canada and was open to students completing their master’s or doctoral degrees in building science... More

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