Student Recognition

Phoebe Chan is the co-winner of the "Laurence Curtis Teaching Assistant Award" this year. The award was established several years ago as an annual recognition of the outstanding work done by our Teaching Assistants in our undergraduate courses and to foster future excellence by our graduate students in teaching.  The award is named after Dr. Laurie Curtis in recognition and thanks for the work he has done on behalf of the department in advancement and for his personal donations to support scholarships and the student experience.

Daniel Badali is the 2011 Abdus Salam Undergraduate Research Award recipient from the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto.The award is named after 1979 Nobel Prize winner Abdus Salam, and is awarded to the best research project done by a UofT Physics undergraduate student and supervised by a UofT Physics faculty member. The research may be undertaken in a research course, in one of the Supervised Study courses, or while working as a summer student. The research may be experimental, theoretical or both.

Phoebe Chan is the 2011 Ross Research Award recipient from the Geological Society of America (GSA). As such, Chan is one of 14 GSA Specialized award recipients of just under 650 candidates reviewed in 2011.

The Ross Research Fund was established to support student research grants in the fields of biostratigraphy and stratigraphic correlation, paleogeography and paleobiogeography, and the integration of these research areas into better global understanding of (1) past plate motions (plate tectonics and sea floor spreading), (2) past sea level events, including their identification and ages, and/or (3) climate changes and effects of those climate changes on the earth's inhabitants through geologic time.

Joel Drewry has been upgraded to the NSERC CGS D (Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships Program) from PGS D (NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships Program).

Julie Lukkarila has been awarded an Ontario Post-Doctoral Fellowship, supported jointly by the Ministry of Research and Innovation and co-funding identified by her supervisor.

Congratulations on this accomplishment. The competition for the fellowships was very strong. For this cohort of 2010 Post-Doctoral Fellows, each individual must begin his/her fellowship between July 1 and December 31, 2010. This is a 2-year fellowship with a total value of at least $50,000 per year, of which $25,000 per year will be provided through the University from a Ministry of Research and Innovation award. The remaining $25,000/year is to be supplied from Gunning's Group.

Baoxu Liu - 2010 SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering recipient

Joel Drewry - 2010 David H. Farrar Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry recipient Joel Drewry and Sina Haftchenary - NSERC Graduate fellowship recipients.