Congratulations to Samantha McWhirter for being awarded the Roberts Fellowship!
Samantha McWhirter has been awarded the Roberts Fellowship from the Department of Chemistry on the basis of financial need. Congratulations, Sam!
Congratulations to Caroline Pao and Samantha McWhirter!
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!
Samantha McWhirter awarded the Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship
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!
Caroline Pao awarded the General Motors Women in Science and Mathematics Award
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!
Kris Kim awarded Norman Stuart Robertson Fellowship
Congratulations to Kris Kim, who has been awarded the Norman Stuart Robertson Fellowship! This SGS University-wide award is given to students in the sciences on the basis of academic merit.
Kris Kim Awarded David H. Farrar Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry
Congratulations to Kris Kim, who has been awarded the David H. Farrar Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry! The David H. Farrar Graduate Scholarship is awarded to graduate students in the Department of Chemistry who have distinguished themselves both academically and for their [...]
Kris Kim Wins 2015 TA Teaching Excellence Award!
Congratulations to PhD student Kris Kim, who has been awarded a University of Toronto TATP TA Teaching Excellence Award! Kris is one of only four winners of this award across all of the University of Toronto for 2015. The Teaching [...]
Christopher Walters wins poster award at SOUSCC!
Christopher Walters was awarded 3rd prize at the physical symposium of the Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), held at the University of Toronto-Mississauga on March 21, 2015, for his poster "Hybrid Plasmonics and Resonant SERS." Congratulations, Christopher!
Walker Group research on boron nitride nanotubes highlighted in Nature Materials!
The recent Nature Communications paper by Xiaoji Xu et al, “One-dimensional Surface Phonon Polaritons in Boron Nitride Nanotubes,” has been highlighted by Nature Materials! Read the News & Views column here .
Congratulations to Christina MacLaughlin!
On June 16, Christina MacLaughlin successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Nanoparticles as Optical Labels for Imaging Cell Surface Proteins"! Congratulations to Christina, who will soon begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health [...]