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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.

Robert Moscaritolo successfully defended his thesis: “Quantifying Bacterial Crowd Surfing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”

Hilary Joyce Paulin defended her MSc thesis: Pattern Recognition In Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Data

Hilary Joyce Paulin defended her MSc thesis: Pattern Recognition In Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Data

Alejandra Diaz Varela successfully defended her thesis: "NUCLEAR STRUCTURE INVESTIGATION OF 110CD THROUGH β+/EC-DECAY OF 110IN".

Joseph Kuchar successfully defended his thesis: "The Static Self-Force in Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Schwarzschild-Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes".

Undergraduate Awards:

• Ethan Buchman received the Governor General's Silver Medal Award for top undergraduate marks
• Stephen Glazier received the J.B. Reynolds Graduation Medal in Physics
  The J.B. Reynolds Graduation Medal is awarded to the student who has completed semester 8 of any of the majors in Physics and who has obtained the highest cumulative average in the required Physics courses of that program, normally taken in semester 5 to 8.

Honorary Degrees: