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Brendan Bulthuis successfully defended his MSc Thesis on August 10, 2015: "Pairing Correlations in Heavy Nuclei near the Proton Dripline".

Renato Pardo successfully defended his MSc Thesis on July 14, 2015: "On the Effects of Resolution on APXS-GUAPX Analytical Results: From Spectrum to Peak Areas to Concentration Estimate".

Anthony Vannelli, Dean, College of Physical and Engineering Science is pleased to announce that Professor Paul Garrett has agreed to become the next Chair of the Department of Physics beginning a five year term on July 1, 2015. Dean Vannelli's memorandum is quoted below:

Calvin Tabert successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on June 17, 2015: "Electronic Phenomena in 2D Dirac-like Systems:  Silicene and Topological Insulator Surface States".

Congratulations to Andrew Harris who was awarded Best Student Poster Prize for his poster titled "Spectroscopic Investigation of Pseudomonas putida rhodopsin (PspR)" at the 1st Canadian Biophysical Society Meeting. The 2015 Canadian Biophysical Society Meeting took place at the University of Waterloo from June 17 to 19, 2015.

Congratulations to Evan Rand and Andrew MacLean who were awarded the 1st place and 2nd place prizes, respectively, in the Division of Nuclear Physics best student presentation competition at the annual Canadian Association of Physicists Congress held in Edmonton Alberta, June 15-19.

Professor Joanne O'Meara has been selected as one of 20 international participants in this year's Science Communications residency program at The Banff Centre. This two-week program brings together professionals in both science and communications, and will give Professor O'Meara the opportunity to work with some of the world's leading science communicators e.g. Jay Ingram, Henry Kowalski (chief news editor at CTV news), John Rennie (editor in chief of Scientific American).