Student Awards

Nicholas van Heijst, Physics PhD student working with Dr. John Dutcher, was chosen top three best student oral presentations for his talk at the recent Nano Ontario Conference at Western University held on June 18-19. This year's conference spotlighted soft matter and biological interfacial reactivity at the nanoscale. Nicholas' work focuses on finding novel and simple ways to solubilize hydrophobic molecules using safe and naturally-ocurring nanoparticles called phytoglycogen. 

Enshen Zhu, PhD student in engineering systems and computing at the University of Guelph, won 1st prize in the Best Student Paper Competition at the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) and the CFD Society of Canada (CFDSC) International Congress 2024.

At the Annual Canadian Association of Physicists Congress 2024, held from March 27th to March 31st at Western University, five University of Guelph Physics students distinguished themselves and won notable awards amidst 585 registered delegates. 

Nicola Billings, engineering graduate student at the University of Guelph, won the first place poster presentation award at the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Veterinary Medicine (SAVY) at Cornell University. 

Avery Wesener, an undergraduate Chemistry student, wins top placement at annual Chemistry Conference. 

Two engineering students at the University of Guelph have won top prizes for a photo contest hosted by the Metallurgy and Materials Society (MetSoc) of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM). M.A.Sc. mechanical engineering student Sevda Fathipour won first place, while fourth year mechanical engineering student Gautam Naresh Genani won third place for the 2023 MetSoc Student Multi-Scale Image Contest.

A team of students at the University of Guelph have won the 2024 Runtime-First FPGA Interchange Routing Contest. Teammates Charlotte Barnes, Dani Maarouf and Timothy Martin in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, and members of the Guelph FPGA CAD Group, won with their solution, GRoute. The team was supervised by Drs. Shawki Areibi and Gary Grewal.

Hannah is standing in a real scale mimic of a tunnel to be used for a deep geological repository research.