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Zander Li receives the highest score in the world on the SIN exam

Dr. Rajibul Islam named an APS Fellow

Everett Patterson has been awarded the 2024 Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Graduate Scholarship.

Waterloo's Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland received top honours from Canada and France last week in Ottawa for her contributions to science. She was appointed the Companion of the Order of Canada medal and named a Knight of the Legion of Honour.

by Kelsey Stoddart

Four Waterloo scientists from three departments are in the top 1% of citations for their field of study and publication based on Clarivate Analytics' Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list.

Quantum superposition is not just a property of subatomic particles but also of the most massive objects in the universe. That is the conclusion of four theoretical physicists in Australia and Canada who calculated the hypothetical response of a particle detector placed some distance from a black hole.

Nineteen eminent Canadian scientists, scholars and researchers have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for their outstanding achievements in advancing knowledge and understanding of the past and present, including Waterloo’s mathematical physicist Kevin Costello.

Scientists have discerned a sharp ring of light created by photons whipping around the back of a supermassive black hole in a vivid confirmation of theoretical prediction.