Congratulations to Professor Joanne O'Meara who will be presented with John Bell Award at the undergraduate CPES convocation on June 12th, 7 PM. Further information on University of Guelph News Release.
Professor John Dutcher received $125,000 to take his PHYTOSPHERIX™ polysaccharide particles to market from the Gryphon's LAAIR (Leading to Accelerated Adoption of Innovative Research) program. The program provides "targeted support for transformative research, development & commercialization projects", specifically for Ontario's agri-food and rural sectors. As part of the program faculty from across campus "pitched" ideas for commercializing their projects to a panel of industry stakeholders.
Congratulations to Dr. James LeBlanc who has been awarded an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. James did his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in our physics department. His research was in theoretical condensed matter on topics in superconductivity and graphene. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany.
Congratulations to Dr. Paul Finlay, who has been awarded the 2012-13 Thesis Prize by the Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) of the Canadian Association of Physicists for the top Ph.D. thesis in Nuclear Physics in Canada. Paul's Ph.D.
Congratulations to the following students:
In an announcement made today by Greg Rickford, minister of state (science and technology), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) will provide $63 million to support 250 research projects at 37 universities across the country. Nearly $1.9 million of the total will be invested in 15 projects at the University of Guelph. The investment is in "support of cutting-edge research equipment, laboratories and tools that researchers need to make tomorrow's breakthroughs and to improve the lives of Canadians".
In an announcement made today by Greg Rickford, minister of state (science and technology), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) will provide $63 million to support 250 research projects at 37 universities across the country. Nearly $1.9 million of the total will be invested in 15 projects at the University of Guelph. The investment is in "support of cutting-edge research equipment, laboratories and tools that researchers need to make tomorrow's breakthroughs and to improve the lives of Canadians".
Congratulations to Grant Walters who won 2nd place, Overall Best Poster competition at the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference October 17-20, 2013 held at McMaster University.