News

For the work conducted from January - August 2025 on deuterium wastewater purification, and the tremendous impact this has had, Allysa was nominated for the 2025 Coop Student of the Year award in the Faculty of Science. At the ceremony, it was announced that Allysa was the winner! 

Congratulations Big Al!

https://uwaterloo.ca/news/celebrating-2025-co-op-students-year

Congratulations Carlee for winning the Don E Irish award for physical or theoretical chemistry. 

Dinner at the Grad House to welcome the new students. 

Winter has brought three new students to the group: Veronica (PhD), Jorge (MSc) and Lucas (coop)!

Welcome to the group! 

After a long wait, the new lab space in ESC is open. You can find Graham in ESC-3116. Student spaces are 3111 and 3114, The new labs are ESC 3112 and 3113

You can read about the renovation here and here.

Congratulations to Nuro and Harjeet for winning 2025 WIN Nanofellowships! "The Nanofellowships are awarded to top graduate students pursuing nanotechnology research at the University of Waterloo"

Well done!

Congratulations to Allysa, who recently learned she won a presentation award at the CSC this summer, for her poster titled "Purification of Deuterium Oxide Waste - Creating a Green and Sustainable Envoronment".

Well done Allysa!

This Fall, we are joined by three new grad students Mujda, Naaz & Kaidyn. Welcome to the Murphy Lab!

The end of the summer semester always means we say goodbye to the coop students Kylie, Teo, Allysa and Beatrice. Thanks for all the hard work and laughs. 

Best of luck as you head back to your studies!

Lots of change in the group this week. We said goodbye to Justine and Yulia, who are both headed back to Europe. Thanks for all the hard work and laughs!

And we welcomed our new PDF Dr. Kai Sands, who joins us from the University of Calgary. Welcome to the group!