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Congratulations Doug! Douglas Grzetic successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis
Douglas Grzetic successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on May 26, 2016: "Connecting structure evolution and chain diffusion in dense polymeric systems using dynamical self-consistent field theory".
Congratulations Miranda! Miranda Schmidt successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis
Miranda Schmidt successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on April 27, 2016: "NMR Studies of Liquid Disordered and Liquid Ordered Phase Coexistence in Model Membranes".
Congratulations Andrew! Andrew Harris successfully defended his MSc thesis
Andrew Harris successfully defended his MSc Thesis on April 25, 2016: "A new group of eubacterial light-driven retinal-binding proton pumps with an unusual cytoplasmic proton donor".
Transit of Mercury
The planet Mercury will pass in front of the sun (as Venus did in 2012) on Monday, May 9 and the observatory will have its telescopes (with proper solar filters) following the event. Members and friends of the university community are welcome to stop up from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM weather permitting.
Professor Alex Gezerlis awarded Discovery Accelerator Supplement
Prof. Alex Gezerlis has been awarded a Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) in the latest NSERC competition. The award, valued at $120k over 3 years, provides additional resources to promote research programs that have been highly rated in terms of their originality and innovation, and to the researcher who shows extraordinary potential to become an international leader in their field. NSERC provides a maximum number of 125 DAS awards per year, and the University of Guelph receives 1 - 3 such awards annually.
Congratulations Richard! Richard Parg successfully defended his MSc thesis
Richard Parg successfully defended his MSc Thesis on March 29, 2016: "Nanomechanical Measurements of Viscoelastic Properties of Bacterial Cells: Effect of Antimicrobial Peptides and Challenges Associated with Measurements in Buffer".
Congratulations Andrew! Andrew MacLean successfully defended his MSc thesis
Andrew MacLean successfully defended his MSc Thesis on March 31, 2016: "Gamma-Gamma Angular Correlation Measurements with Griffin".