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The Neutrino Physics Center at Fermilab "serves to foster communication between experimentalists on different neutrino experiments, between experimentalists and theorists, and between theorists, within the international neutrino user community and from Fermilab". The Center periodically has a "Question of the Week" for the community, and announces the winning submission shortly after.

Professor Caballero submitted an answer to the question: "How would a neutron star merger, in our Galaxy, be seen in DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment)?"

This past fall, University of Guelph Student Housing Services invited students residing in residence halls across campus (over 4500 students) to nominate their favourite Fall Semester professors.

Professor Joanne O'Meara was nominated by a significant number of students and is co-recipient of Fall 2017's "Residence Students' Favourite Fall Professor" distinction for positively impacting the academic experience at Guelph. Asked why they nominated Professor O'Meara as their favourite professor, one student wrote:

Department of Physics lecturer Orbax is featured as resident ‘mad scientist’ and ‘experi-mentor’ in Guinness World Records newest book, Guinness World Records: Science & Stuff.

James Howard successfully defended his MSc Thesis on December 14, 2017: "Quantitative, Biologically-Motivated, Computational Model for the Twitching Motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa".

Scott Van Bommel successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on October 10th, 2017: "Expanding the Capability of the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer Including Quantification of Fine-Scale Chemistry and Atmospheric Monitoring".