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Congratulations to the following students who have won an NSERC Canadian Graduate Scholarship at the Masters level! (CGSM)

• Matthew Barrett
• Aidan Brown
• Kent Fisher
• Jonathan Grossauer
• Jonathan Loranger
• Evan Rand
• Emily Ritz
• Michal Wieczorek

Congratulations to the members of the Physics Club who won FIRST PRIZE - OVERALL WINNER at the year's College Royal Event held March 20 and 21st.  We also wish to extend our congratulations to the members of the Nanoscience Club who received an honourable mention for their Exhibit.

The Physics Undergraduate Scholarship Awards ceremony, held in conjunction with the annual Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Undergraduate Lecture, will take place on Wednesday, March 17th at 4:00 PM in MacNaughton 113. The award ceremony, CAP Lecture, and photos will be followed by a reception outside MacNaughton 113. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Please RSVP to Paige Clark by Thursday, March 11th to confirm if you are able to attend the award ceremony and/or reception.

Eric Poisson was appointed as a member of the Editorial Board of the prestigious physics journal Physical Review Letters for a three-year term ending on October 31, 2012. He will serve as Divisional Associate Editor for Astrophysics.

Innes MacKenzie is the beloved patriarch of the Department of Physics. As Chair, Innes single-handedly founded the Department in its modern incarnation back in the late nineteen sixties, and the culture that he put in place at that time is still with us today. For the Department, the coffee room is the place that most closely symbolizes this culture: it is where we come together to eat, drink, discuss, exchange, and poke fun at one another. It is most fitting, therefore, that the coffee room will now be known as the I.K. MacKenzie Interaction Room.