Fleming College has been selected to receive approximately $800, 000 in funding from the College-Industry Innovation Fund. The Canada Foundation for Innovation made the announcement on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, with funding going to Fleming College’s Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT). The CAWT, which is led by Senior Scientist Dr. Brent Wootton, will utilize
Lindsay, ON – March 27, 2012 – Fleming College professor Gordon Balch represented the Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) in Marseille, France. From March 12 to 17, Balch was one of 35, 000 participants at the World Water Forum, which is a forum devoted to solving global water issues. Forum organizers invited participants to submit
Lindsay, ON – March 20, 2012 – Fleming College will celebrate the importance of freshwater during their World Water Day event on Thursday, March 22, 2012. From noon to 1 p.m. in room 250 of the Frost Campus, Fleming will put the spotlight on freshwater with the help of speakers, a documentary, and a MOU signing
With his successful track record in applied research and innovative wastewater treatment technologies, it comes as no surprise to colleagues at Fleming that Dr. Brent Wootton, the College’s Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) Director and Senior Scientist, was named and featured under the People category in the January / February issue of Water’s Next 2012. A
Fleming College Senior Scientist Dr. Brent Wootton has been appointed to the Province of Ontario’s Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP). The Hon. Glen Murray, Minister of Research and Innovation, named Wootton to the WaterTAP board for a term of one year. Dr. Wootton is the director of Fleming’s Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) at
Fleming College’s Centre for Alternative Wastewater Treatment (CAWT) will receive a $150,000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) it was announced last week. The grant will go toward purchasing research equipment for the Centre to enhance the college’s applied research capacity. “This funding will allow the CAWT to purchase advanced analytical