News related to Awards

The Physics Undergraduate Scholarship Awards ceremony, held in conjunction with the annual Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Undergraduate Lecture, will take place on Wednesday, March 17th at 4:00 PM in MacNaughton 113. The award ceremony, CAP Lecture, and photos will be followed by a reception outside MacNaughton 113. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Please RSVP to Paige Clark by Thursday, March 11th to confirm if you are able to attend the award ceremony and/or reception.

Congratulations to M.Sc student Dale Schick-Martin on being awarded a CAM2009 Presenter Scholarship. These scholarships, provided by the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and Sociedad Mexicana de Física (SMF), were available for up to 30 graduate students pursuing their M.Sc or PhD at a Canadian university. The CAM2009 Presenter Scholarships help cover travel, registration, and airfare costs for CAM2009, the Canada-America-Mexico Graduate Student Physics conference.

Congratulations to this year's poster award winners at the Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute (GWPI) poster session.

The winners from Guelph were:

• Taylor Binnington and Adam Pound (joint poster The physics of relativistic binaries)
• James LeBlanc (Specific heat of underdoped curpates: RVB versus Fermi arcs)
• Isdin Oke (Preparation, deposition, and characterization of cellulose nanocrystals)

At the Annual Users' Meeting of the Canadian Light Source (CLS) held at Saskatoon SK last week (June 17th-18th), Kevin Miller (MSc student) from our department entered the competition for the best student poster sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Synchrotron Radiation (CISR) and won the first prize ($500) with a poster titled \"XAFS of Nickel Silicide Thin Films\".

Congratulations to the following Physics students:

The Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) announced the result of the 2007-08 Thesis Prize competition. This prize was set up in 2005 by the DNP, to be awarded in Experimental or Theoretical Nuclear Physics to any student receiving their Ph.D. degree from a Canadian University in the current or prior calendar year. The selection for the 2008 Prize was adjudicated by a committee consisting of David Hutcheon (representing TRIUMF), Jean Barrette (McGill University) and Kumar S. Sharma (University of Manitoba).

This medal is awarded to a graduating student in the Spring semester who has completed semester 8 of any of the majors in Physics and who has obtained the highest cumulative average in the required Physics courses of that program, normally taken in semester 5 to 8. Presentation of the award to Amanda O'Halloran was made by Robert L. Brooks, Chair of the Department.