Matthew Harrison-Trainor (BMath 2012) has been awarded a 2012 Julie Payette-NSERC Research Scholarship. These awards are Canada's most prestigious NSERC scholarships offered at the Master's level; only 24 are awarded each year across Canada in the natural sciences and engineering.
Matthew Harrison-Trainor (BMath 2012) has won the first Faculty of Mathematics' Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. He will receive the award at the morning convocation on June 15, 2012.
Matthew (right) is pictured here with Prof Ming Li.
Matthew Kennedy (PhD, 2011) has won the 2012 CMS Doctoral Prize. He will give a talk, and receive the award, in December at the CMS meeting in Montreal. Matt joins other University of Waterloo alumni as winners of this award: Jim Geelen (C&O) in 1997, Stephen Astels (PM) in 2000, Nico Spronk (PM) in 2004, Michael Newman (C&O) in 2006, and also David Kerr (PM undergrad, Toronto PhD) in 2002.
