Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Waterloo
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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News
May 8 2012
Inaugural Stoicheff Memorial Graduate Scholarship awarded to Wilson Brenna
The Canadian Association of Physicists' Educational Trust Fund (CAP-ETF) and the OSA Foundation (OSAF) are pleased to announce that the inaugural Stoicheff Memorial Graduate scholarship is being awarded to Wilson Brenna from the University of Waterloo who, as as an undergraduate and graduate student, has demonstrated both academic excellence as well as leadership in helping to organize conferences and being on the Executive of committees to benefit his fellow students.
Feb 27 2012
Michel Gingras receives Killam Fellowship
The Canada Council for the Arts has awarded a Killam Research Fellowship to the Department's own Michel Gingras, one of seven Canadian researchers whose institutions will receive $70,000 per year over the course of the two-year fellowship.
Feb 14 2012
Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis pledge $21 million to science and mathematics faculties at the University of Waterloo
It was announced in February that Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis will continue to show their generous support of post-secondary education and world-class research with a gift of $21 million to the University of Waterloo’s faculties of science and mathematics.
Half of the $20-million pledge to the Faculty of Science will contribute to funding two senior research chairs in the areas of condensed matter and astrophysics.
Oct 28 2011
New award for undergraduate students from 3M
Oct 24 2011
Ann Kallin wins alumni gold medal for MSc
Jan 5 2011
NSERC-USRA undergraduate research awards
Nov 23 2010
Dr. Strickland featured in The Record
Nov 19 2010
Bound entanglement comment in Nature Physics
Sep 16 2010
Predicting holes in the ozone layer
May 18 2010
Patrick McVeigh awarded Vanier Scholarship
May 18 2010
Vanier Canada graduate scholarship
Mar 30 2009
Michel Gingras awarded Brockhouse Medal