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In Memoriam - Professor John J. Simpson
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 Marianne, his son James and daughter Sarah and their families, and his sister Donna and her family.
Professor Vladimir Ladizhansky promoted to Full Professor
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, 2016.
2016 CPES Undergraduate Poster Session Winners
The winners of the CPES Undergraduate Poster Session, which was held on August 5th, 2016, are:
Christina Burbadge's presentation selected for top poster at international conference
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 presentation, titled "Investigating the nature of excited 0+ states populated via the 162Er(p,t) reaction" was selected by an international panel of judges as the best poster presented by a student. The DREB conference, held every 2 years, is the premier international conference in the field of reactions with rare isotope beams.
Congratulations Meaghan! Meaghan Ward successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis
Meaghan Ward successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on June 28, 2016: "Solid-state NMR investigations of transmembrane proteins – new approaches for signal enhancement and in situ studies of anabaena sensory rhodopsin".
Calvin Tabert awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal for top graduate student
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 Calvin's remarkable achievements and is given below:
Graduate Student Christina Burbadge places 2nd for Best Paper Presentation in the Nuclear Physics Division at the 2016 CAP Congress
Congratulations to Christina Burbadge who placed second for Best Paper Presentation Prize in the Nuclear Physics Division for her presentation of her paper titled "Investigating the nature of excited 0+ states populated via the 162Er(p,t) reaction" at the 2016 CAP Congress. Christina is leading the analysis of data obtained from the MLL facility in Munich, Germany, by the collaboration involving Guelph, TRIUMF, the Technical University Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, and the University of Western Cape (South Africa).