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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.

PhysPhest 2013 was held on September 4th. The results are as follows:

• First prize --- Philippe Landry
• Second prize (shared) --- Joel Klassen & Matthew O'Halloran
• Third prize (shared) --- John (Ryan) Westernacher-Schneider & Jihae Baek

The Department of Physics is extremely proud of your presentations!

Congratulations to Alejandra Diaz Varela for winning first prize in the student poster competition at the Exotic Beam Summer School held at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory July 28 - Aug. 4.

• Russell Spencer placed first in the Division of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics.
• Robert Moscaritolo tied for first in the Division of Medical and Biological Physics and went on to win first prize overall for Best Student Talk in the Friday competition.
• Calvin Tabert placed third in the Division of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics.

Congratulations to Ryan Plestid whose score in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is the second highest score obtained at Guelph in the past six years; his score places him among the top 22% of students writing the Putnam this year North-America wide.

The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is an annual contest for college students established in 1938 in memory of its namesake.