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Rachel Munro successfully defended her MSc Thesis on January 5, 2016: "Investigations into the production of integral membrane proteins for solid-state NMR spectroscopy".

Evan Rand successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on December 8, 2015: "Investigation of the E2 and E3 matrix elements in ²⁰⁰Hg using direct nuclear reactions".

Congratulations to alumnus Mats Selen on being named 2016 U.S. Professor of the Year by Carnegie Foundation and Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)! Mats Selen is being recognized as the Outstanding Doctoral and Research Universities Professor.

Orbax will be on the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet this evening at 7:00 pm to talk about his Guinness World Record for "most motorcycles driven over a human body while lying on a bed of nails in under two minutes".

Congratulations to James Ball on winning the Irwin Talesnick Award for Excellence in Teaching! James Ball, currently a physics teacher at Guelph's John F. Ross CVI, completed a Bachelor of Science in 1985 and a Masters of Science degree in 1987 at the University of Guelph (Department of Physics).

The award, from the Science Teachers’ Association of Ontario (STAO), recognizes one teacher annually for unique and extraordinary accomplishments in teaching science to students in the province.

On October 6, 2015 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics to Takaaki Kajita, Super-Kamiokande Collaboration University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan and Arthur B. McDonald, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. They were awarded “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”.