Congratulations to Andrew Harris who was awarded Best Student Poster Prize for his poster titled "Spectroscopic Investigation of Pseudomonas putida rhodopsin (PspR)" at the 1st Canadian Biophysical Society Meeting. The 2015 Canadian Biophysical Society Meeting took place at the University of Waterloo from June 17 to 19, 2015.
Congratulations to Evan Rand and Andrew MacLean who were awarded the 1st place and 2nd place prizes, respectively, in the Division of Nuclear Physics best student presentation competition at the annual Canadian Association of Physicists Congress held in Edmonton Alberta, June 15-19.
Congratulations to Mateusz Buraczynski who has been awarded the 2015 Governor General's Silver Medal Award. The Silver medal is awarded to the undergraduate who achieves the highest academic standing upon graduation from a bachelor degree program.
In addition to the Governor General's award, Mateusz has also:
Congratulations to Guelph Ph.D. student Alex Laffoley, who has been awarded the $12,100 Carl H. Westcott Memorial Fellowship for 2015.
Chris Heirwegh won the prize for the second best poster at the 14th International Conference on Particle-Induced X-ray Emission in Capetown, South Africa 25 Feb. -3 March 2015. The poster was titled \"Comparison of X-ray mass attenuation coefficients used in PIXE analysis of silicate minerals and glasses:, with authors C. M. Heirwegh, I. Pradler, J.L. Campbell.
Congratulations Chris!
Congratulations to Mateusz Buraczynski, Dylan Cooper, Rebecca Frederick, Steven Large, Erin McGee and William Dawkins on being awarded the Dean's Scholarship for Fall 2014.
The Dean's Scholarship is offered by the Board of Governors. Recipients are selected by each of the College Awards Committees. The primary academic criteria is placement on the Dean's Honours List for two consecutive semesters.
PhysPhest 2014 was held on the September 3rd. The top three speakers were selected by the general audience, the results are as follows:
The Department of Physics is extremely proud of your presentations!
The CPES Undergraduate Poster Session was held in the Science Complex Atrium.
From the CPES Undergraduate Poster Session Planning Committee:
This medal is awarded once per year (or less frequently) by the journal 'Applied Radiation and Isotopes', published by Elsevier. In Prof. Campbell's case the award recognized 'outstanding contributions to radiation and isotope applications and instrumentation'.