PhD students Caroline Pao and Samantha McWhirter are the recent recipients of the McCuaig-Throop Bursary. This scholarship is awarded by the School of Graduate Studies on the basis of academic merit. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Samantha McWhirter for being awarded the Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to exceptional doctoral students in Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science. Great Job, Samantha!
Congratulations to Caroline Pao who has been awarded the General Motors Women in Science and Mathematics Award! This award is given to female graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Science for research potential and leadership contributions. Good job, Caroline!
Congratulations to Alex Jankowski for being awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). This scholarship is awarded for outstanding academic excellence and research potential. Way to go, Alex!
Daniel Trajanoski earned a 3rd place Physical Chemistry Award at the Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC) held at York University on March 18th, 2017 for his oral presentation "Self-Launching of Hyperbolic Phonon Polaritons in Hexagonal Boron Nitride". Congratulations, Daniel!
Congratulations to Melissa Paulite, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of Synthetic Materials and Biomaterials using Apertureless Near-field Infrared Microscopy," on September 25, 2012! Melissa has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New [...]
Claudia Grozea successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Nanopatterned Polymer Coating for Antifouling Applications," on September 18, 2012. Congratulations, Dr. Grozea!
On September 12, 2012, Adrienne Tanur successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Structure and Properties of Nanomaterials: From Inorganic Nanotubes to the Calcareous Biomeneralized Tubes of H. Dianthus." Congratulations, Dr. Tanur!
Isaac Li successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "Hydrophobic Hydration of a Single Polymer" on August 3. A big congratulations to Dr. Li, who will soon begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign!
Li and Walker's recent PNAS paper has been highlighted in a review in Nature. Read the Nature review