Department News

PhysPhest is a celebration of the research being conducted in the Physics Department by M.Sc. and Ph.D. students (in GWPI and …

Orbax is one of 40 people under 40 in Guelph being celebrated for doing great things in our community. Orbax's profile can be found on page 16.

Professor John J. Simpson FRSC, a highly distinguished member of the Physics department from 1969 to 2002, passed away in the Netherlands on August 23rd 2016.  John was born in North Bay, Ontario in 1939. He leaves his wife Mariann …

Part of the funding will go to the renewal and renovation of research spaces in the MacNaughton Building.

Congratulations to Vladimir Ladizhansky on his dedication to excellence, world-leading research, strong teaching, excellent mentorship of students and postdoctoral fellows, all which resulted in his promotion to full professorship effective July 1 …

The winners of the CPES Undergraduate Poster Session, which was held on August 5th, 2016, are: First Overall: Alexzandra Hughes-Visentin (Physics) for her poster titled "The growth and purification of a chlo …

Christina Burbadge was awarded first prize in the student poster competition at the Direct Reaction with Exotic Beams (DREB2016) conference held in Halifax July 11 - 15.  Her poster present …

Meaghan Ward successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on June 28, 2016: "Solid-state NMR investigations of transmembrane prot …

Calvin Tabert has been awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal for outstanding achievement at the graduate level. Calvin completed his MSc and PhD in the quantum materials group of Prof. Elisabeth Nicol. The citation for his award summarizes C …