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Congratulations to the following:

Congratulations to Adam Pound who has been awarded the 2011 Governor General's Gold Medal. The Governor General's Gold Medal is awarded each year for outstanding academic achievement at the graduate level of study. This award will be presented at the Graduate Studies convocation ceremony on Tuesday, June 15th, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.

Congratulations to Michael Barriault (an M.Sc. student with Luis Lehner), who won the prize for best student poster at the 2011 SHARCNET Research Day. The title of the poster was: 
Dynamical constraint enforcement in plasma environments.

2011 SHARCNET Research Day was held at Sheridan College on Friday May 19th.

Congratulations to the Physics Club and the Nanoscience Club on winning the following awards at College Royal 2011:

• Third prize for Overall Exhibit - Nanoscience Club
• First prize for Overall Display - Physics Club
• First prize for CPES Display - Physics Club

Congratulations to Adam Pound on being awarded an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship.  The Postdoctoral Fellowships Program provides support to a core of the most promising researchers at a pivotal time in their careers. The fellowships are also intended to secure a supply of highly qualified Canadians with leading edge scientific and research skills for Canadian industry, government and universities.

Congratulations to Dr. Shenlin Wang on receiving a prestigious CIHR fellowship. The award is for two years and will be taken under the supervision of Profs. Vladimir Ladizhansky and Leonid Brown. This year, only 57 out of 497 applicants were funded.

Congratulations to Paul Finlay, who was awarded first place (and 1000 Euro) for the best talk by a graduate student, and Evan Rand, who was awarded second place in the graduate student poster competition, at the International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC) held in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 4-10.  The INPC, which was attended by approximately 800 delegates from around the world, is held every three years and is the largest international research conference covering all areas of nuclear physics.  Paul Finlay's award-winning talk presented An Ultra-High Precis

Membership in the Society of Excellence is granted to graduating students who have demonstrated excellent academic achievement and have made outstanding contributions to the University of Guelph community and beyond throughout their university careers.  As members of the College of Physical and Engineering Science Society of Excellence, their names will be engraved on a plaque dedicated to society members and located in the CPES Dean's Office.