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August 2008: Dr Angela Barrett (left), Professor Foster (middle), Emeritus Professor Wainwright (right)	Two articles in UNSW ENGINEERS ISSUE 17 (engineering magazine) about SCF Group Handing along the baton (pg6): Emeritus Professor Mark Wainwright, Professor Neil R. Foster (Professor Wainwright's first student) and Dr. Angela Barrett (Professor Foster's student) all attended the April 2008 graduation ceremony. Professor Foster received a Doctor of Science for his thesis "Supercritical Fluids & Dense Gas Technologies: Fundamentals, Process Development & Applications" and Dr. Barrett received a 2008 UNSW Alumni Association Graduand Award and a PhD for her thesis "Processing Pharmaceuticals using Dense Gas Technology". Making smarter drugs (pg10): Details about Professor Foster and the SCF group's work on improving the efficiency of pharmaceutical drug delivery. According to Professor Foster, "we wanted something useful, viable, and with a commercially relevant endpoint."
July 2008:	Dr. Roderick Sih attained his PhD for his thesis entitled "New process development of dense gas technology for the processing of pharmaceuticals" His thesis can be found in electronic form on the UNSW Library website.
May 2008:	Professor Neil R. Foster is giving a keynote talk on "Production of Magnetically Responsive Biodevices by Dense Gas Technology" (co-authors: Wendy Lam and Raffaella Mammucari) at the 11th European Meeting on Supercritical Fluids (Barcelona, Spain)
April 2008:	Professor Neil R. Foster (left) and Jane Beh (right) received a Doctor of Science and Bachelors of Chemical Engineering respectively, at the UNSW convocation ceremony Professor Mark Wainwright (right) gave a speech in honour of Professor Foster (left) receiving the Doctor of Science at the convocation ceremony.
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