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Patrick McVeigh awarded Vanier Scholarship
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Patrick McVeigh was recently awarded a prestigious Vanier Scholarship. Patrick was a student in the department of Physics and Astronomy from 2003 to 2008. He worked with Professor Forrest for a co-op term and for his 437 A/B projects. He work led to the publication "Influence of nanoparticle size on the pH dependent structure of adsorbed proteins studied with quantitative localized surface plasmon spectroscopy" published in the European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter in October 2009. Patrick is now in the combined PhD/MD program at the University of Toronto.
Congratulations to Firas Mansour, receiving the Excellence in Science Teaching Award, and to Robert Mann for his Distinguished Teaching Award.

