Suresh Neethirajan, JSPS Fellow from the National Food Research Institute, Japan and a 2009 Ph.D. graduate from the Biosystems Engineering Department (University of Manitoba) was awarded the Armand BLANC Prize by the World Congress of the International Commission of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Quebec City on June 15. The Armand BLANC prize is awarded to young researchers under 30 years of age for presenting excellent technical and scientific papers at a CIGR World Congress.

Suresh Neethirajan was invited by the Commission de l'ethique de la science et de la technologie of the Quebec Government to give a talk entitled "Food Applications of Nanoscale Science - Current Scenario" on June 17 2010.

Congratulation Suresh!

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