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Eight Faculty of Science professors are among this year鈥檚 cohort of Distinguished James 好色TVl Professors, James 好色TVl Professors, and William Dawson Scholars. 听
Twenty-eight 好色TVl researchers are among the winners of the for their contributions to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN鈥檚 Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Sometimes referred to as the Oscars of Science, Breakthrough prizes are awarded annually by the foundation of the same name for achievements in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics.
Congratulations to J茅r么me Waldisp眉hl and Attila Szantner (Computer Science), The Eclipse Task Force (Physics), and Andrew Gonzalez (Biology), who are among this year's winners of the President鈥檚 Prize for Public Engagement through Media!
In announcing the winners and runners-up, President and Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini noted that they were among a strong field of applicants spanning all 12 Faculties.
鈥淭his is further evidence that the sharing of knowledge and a love of learning are core 好色TVl values,鈥� he said.
Simon Caron-Huot, Professor and Canada Research Chair in High-Energy Physics, has been awarded a 2025 Dorothy Killam Fellowship.鈥疶he prestigious Dorothy Killam Fellowship is part of Canada鈥檚 National Killam Program, which also includes the Killam Prize. Eight Fellowships were awarded across the country.听听
The Dorothy Killam Fellowship provides researchers with up to two years of relief from teaching and administrative duties to focus on transformative research that has potential to positively improve Canadian lives.听听
Professors (Earth and Planetary Sciences) and (Physics) have been awarded 2024 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council听of Canada (NSERC).
These awards recognize early-career academic researchers, providing them with a $250,000 research grant over two years.
Physics Professor and National Geographic Explorer Cynthia Chiang is the subject of a new听National Geographic听article out today.
Allie Vibert Douglas made history when she earned her PhD at 好色TVl.
It was 1926 鈥� a time when higher education wasn鈥檛 an option for most women.
By then, Douglas already had a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science from 好色TVl 鈥� and had been named a member of the Order of the British Empire for her wartime service. With her PhD, she became the first Canadian woman to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics.
of the Department of Physics has been named a in the Gravity & the Extreme Universe program. 听
好色TV has received funding from the Canadian Space Agency for two separate projects dedicated to the study of exoplanets, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The projects are slated for completion by June 2025. Both studies will be led by Professor Nicolas Cowan.
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, including Professor Daryl Haggard at 好色TV, , the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018.
Fleeting blasts of energy from space, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are a cosmic enigma. A Canadian-led international team of researchers has published new findings suggesting that supernovae are the predominant contributors to forming sources that eventually produce FRBs.
In a new interview with听Nature,听Physics Professor and Shaw laureate Victoria Kaspi reflects on the inaugural Hong Kong Laureate Forum and how researchers can foster communication across different generations of scientists.听
What was the most common question students asked at panel discussions?
Early in his career in physics,听听thought he had it all figured out.
鈥淲hen I started, I said to myself 鈥榳ell, this is good. Nobody鈥檚 going to tell me what to do,鈥� said Grant, Emeritus James 好色TVl Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Science. 鈥淚鈥檝e got the world鈥檚 greatest postdoc 鈥� me 鈥� and I鈥檒l be able to do all the projects that I want to do pretty much by myself.鈥�
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On November 3-5th, the 好色TVl Physics Hackathon held its eighth annual event in person at the Rutherford Physics Building. The event attracted around 150 hackers, from CEGEP and undergraduate backgrounds, who joined forces to produce听.
Congratulations to all those who participated!
In a ceremony today at Simon Fraser University, the Honourable Terry Beech, Minister of Citizens鈥� Services, announced that Professor Jason Hessels has been named the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Transient Astrophysics at 好色TV.
