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Physics Award Winners

Undergraduate Students 

Physics Charter Faculty Prize

2024 Summer Malcolm Pidsosny
2023 Summer Juliana Besler
2022 Summer Matthew Armstrong
2021 Summer Anne Asklund
2020 Summer Jiefu Cen
2019 Summer Joseph Lucero
2018 Summer
 Aaron Lyons
2017 Summer Jomar Sastrillo
2016 Summer Matthew Quenneville
2015 Summer Micah Brush
2014 Summer Darrell Tse
2013 Summer Rakinder Gill
2012 Summer Karol Krizka
2011 Summer Eric Thewalt
2010 Summer Ryan Thomas
2009 Summer Braden Brinkman
2008 Summer Joel Zylberberg

John F. Cochran Physics Award

2024
 Fall
 Ibarra Gaston
2024
 Fall
 Thomas Glukler
2023 Fall Julia Kropivny
2022 Fall Alistair Bevan
2022 Fall Kye Emond
2022 Spring Kye Emond
2021 Summer No recipients
2020 Summer Yukari Uchibori
2019 Summer Yukari Uchibori
2018 Summer Alzbeta Medvedova
2017 Summer Steven Blaber
2016 Summer Matthew Garayt
2015 Summer Michael Bartram
2014 Summer Micah Brush
2013 Summer Micah Brush

Rudi Haering Award in Physics

2024 Summer Alistair Bevan
2023 Summer Kye Emond
2022 Summer Juliana Besler
2021 Summer Juliana Besler
2020 Summer Danaan Cordoni-Jordan
2019 Summer Anja Rabus
2018 Summer Alzbeta Medvedova
2017 Summer Alzbeta Medvedova
2016 Summer Adam DeAbreu
2015 Summer Adam DeAbreu
2014 Summer Justin Oliver
2013 Summer Justin Oliver
2012 Summer Starla Talbot
2011 Summer Karol Krizka
2010 Summer Eric Thewalt
2009 Summer Ryan Thomas
2008 Summer Alexander Loosley
2007 Summer Karen Chan
2006 Summer David Yang
2005 Summer David Yang
2004 Summer
 Steven Bennett
2003 Summer
 David Press
2002 Summer
 Nichol Furey
2001 Summer Russell Greenall
2000 Summer Anuj Parikh
2000 Summer Hsien-Hang Shieh

Isao Asano Undergraduate Scholarship in Physics

2023 Fall Hamish Johnson
2020 Spring Jiefu Cen
Ka chi (Bonnie) Ng
2019 Spring Cole Boyle
Mohammed Khan
2018 Spring Yukari Uchibori
Jeff Cen
2017
 Spring
 Aaron Lyons
2017
 Spring
 Jomar Sastrillo
2016 Spring Florian Baer
2016 Spring Michael Hemsworth

Robert F. Frindt Undergraduate Scholarship in Physics

2024 Spring Michael Plunkett
2021 Fall Matthew Armstrong
2020 Spring Yukari Uchibori

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan Award in Physical Science

2015 Fall Aaron Lyons
2014 Fall Alexa Nelson
2014 Spring    Rikesh Panchmatia
2013 Spring    Karlene Loudon
2012 Spring    Kyle Meeking
2011 Spring    Gabrielle Rabu
2010 Spring    Brittany Coulthard
2009 Spring    Tyler Williams
2008 Spring Michael Peabody
2007 Spring Tristen Gilchrist
2006 Spring Braden Brinkman
2005 Spring Sai Shing Simon So
2004 Spring Nick Roberts
2003 Spring Sue Tsai
2002 Spring Jennifer Obst
2001 Spring Sarah Baines
2000 Spring Jonathan Histon

Evelyn and Leigh Palmer Scholarship Endowment Fund

2021   No physics recipients
2020 Spring Yukari Uchibori
2019 Spring Yukari Uchibori
2017 Spring Matthew Garayt
2016 Spring Paul Westlund
2016 Spring Sandeep Padam
2016 Spring Aaron Lyons
2015
 Spring Jomar Sastrillo
2015 Spring Micah Brush
2014 Spring Veronica Tsai
2014 Spring Rakin Jamal
2013 Spring Polina Tsybina
2013 Spring Micah Brush
2012 Spring Maksim Parfyonov
2012 Spring Rezwan Imtiaz
2010 Fall Dianna Yee
2010 Fall Gianmarco Spiga
2009 Fall Ryan Thomas
2009 Fall Margriet Baelde
2008 Fall Michael Peabody
2008 Fall Oleksandr Butskiy
2007 Fall Joel Zylberberg
2006 Fall Trevor Champagne
2005 Fall Jenna Santos
2004 Fall Larissa Kiesman
2004 Spring Chao Wang
2002 Fall Jonathan Chui
2001 Fall Trevor Dale
2000 Fall Anuj Parikh
1999 Fall Cameron Dale

Grant Sheffer Undergraduate Student Research Award in Physics

2024 Summer Kaleigh Morrow
2023 Summer Nicholas Rye
2022 Summer Hannah Herdin
2021 Summer Zachary Podrebresek
2020 Summer Krishant Akella
2019 Summer Krishant Akella
2018 Summer Anne Asklund

Faculty of Science Outreach Award

2024 Michael Plunkett

Faculty of Science Outreach Award in Physics

2024 Kye Emond

Physics Department Outreach Award

2024 Indira Janzen
Kelly Zheng
2023 Kye Emond
Michael Plunkett
Kieran Duffy
2022 Shariq Ahsan
Emma Lee
2020 Adrian Yeung

Governor General's Silver

2010 Ryan James Thomas
1998 David Marks McAvity
1997 Lalitkumar Y. Nathawad
1995 Andreas Huster
1990 Peter William McCorquodale
1988 David Marks McAvity
1987 Mark William Matsen (Awarded Governor General's Gold)
1977 Robert Samuel Holdom (Awarded Governor General's Gold)

Gordon M. Shrum Gold Medal

2015 Micah Brush
1985 Daniel Bruce Murray
1980 Daniel Jed Harrison

Undergraduate Dean's Medal

2018 Destiny Hsu
2008 Joel Leon Klein Zylberberg
2001 Anuj Ramesh Parikh
1999 Anthony Matthew Daryl Lee
1997 Paul Frederic Tupper
1995 Tomas Plettner
1990 Jonathan Richard Shewchuk
1985 Daniel Bruce Murray

Graduate Students 

NSERC CGSM

2024 Grace Johnson
Howard Scimmer
2021       Joshua Kanaganayagam
2020 Leea Stott
Matthew Leighton
Joseph Lucero

NSERC CGSD

2024 Liliana Hariasz
2022 Matthew Leighton

Canron Limited - Sidney Hogg Memorial Graduate Scholarship

2024 Luis Ramirez-Ramirez
2023 Ali Nezhadsafavi
2022 Amin Safaeesirat
2021 Obinna Uzoh 
2020 Chapin Korosec

Billy Jones Graduate Award in Physics

2024 Jakub Stacho
2023 Ali Mokhtari-Jazi
2022 Sujit Narayanan
2021 Subrata Mandal
2020 Avinash Kumar

Dr. Howard Malm Graduate Award in Physics

2024 Dilraj Ghuman
Julie Lisik
2023 Dilraj Ghuman
Jakub Stacho
2022 Matthew Leighton
2021 Shayan Gheidi
2020 Steven Large 
2019 Tommy McKinnon
2018 Etienne Dreyer
2017 Justine Munich
2016 Matthew Fitzpatrick
2015 Sean Graham

Dr. Howard and Caroline Malm Graduate Award in Climate Change

2024 Julie Lisik

Grant Sheffer Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Physics

2024 Liliana Hariasz
Katarina Preocanin
2023 Hamza Hanif
Nasrin Azari
2022 Hamza Hanif
Ali Mokhtari-Jazi
2021 Ali Mokhtari-Jazi
Sujit Narayanan
2020 Shayan Gheidi
Benjamin Jager
2019 Konstantin Lehmann
2018 Emma Lathouwers
Kolawole Akintola

Physics Graduate Student Fellowship

2024 Hoda Taeb
2023 Seyed Hamid Mirpoorian
2022 Subrata Mandal

Kirk H. Michaelian Graduate Scholarship in Physics

2024 Koushik Bar
2023 Leya Lopez Lovely
2022 Koushik Bar
2021 Matthew Leighton

Michael & Jenifer Thewalt Graduate Award in Physics

2024 Olha Farion
2024 Matthew Leighton

Sulzer (Bingham) Pumps Inc. Graduate Scholarship

2020 Chapin Korosec

Hargreaves Schloarship in Science and Applied Sciences

2020 Eric Schibli

Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medal

2024 Steven Blaber
2022 Avinash Kumar
2021 Steven Large

Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

2022 Daniel Higginbottom
2020 Eric Jones

Simons Foundation Doctoral Entrance Fellowship

2021 Hoda Taeb

Springer Thesis Award

2021 Steven Large

Physics Department Graduate Teaching Award

2024 Spring George Lertzman-Lepofsky
Alireza Noori
Kevin Winther
2023 Fall Olha Farion
Amin Safaeesirat
2023 Spring Milad Ebadi
2022 Fall Rubin Hazarika
Guillermo Quispe Pena
2022 Summer Zachary Podrebersek
Obinna Uzoh
2022 Spring Aleksei Bunevich
Sujit Narayanan
2021 Fall Mark Rempel
Matthew Leighton

Physics Department Outreach Award

2024 Nasrin Azari
2023 Hamza Hanif
2022 Adrian Yeung
Zachary Podrebersek
2021 Camille Chartand

Governor General's Gold

2015 Dr Kamyar Saeedi Ilkhchy, Ph.D. - Optical NMR Study of 31P Donor Spins in Isotopically Enriched 28Si
1994 Zheng Huang, Ph.D. - CP violation, anomalous discrete symmetry and dynamical fermion mass
1991 Markus Bernhard Holzer, Ph.D. - Exact equilibrium crystal shapes in two dimensions and perturbation expansions for the facet shape and step free energy of a three-dimensional equilibrium crystal
1983 Kenneth Bjorn Urquhart, M.Sc. - The effect of non-local conductivity on microwave transmission through ferromagnetic metals
1976 Kirk Oliver Olynyk, M.Sc. - Spherically-symmetric monopole solutions in SU(2) and SU(3) gauge theories
1975 Richard Abram Baartman, M.Sc. - Microwave studies of an amorphous ferromagnet

Graduate Dean's Medal

2020 Alex Zucca, Ph.D. - Cosmological tests of fundamental physics
2016 Sara Ejtemaee, Ph.D. - Dynamics of Trapped Ions Near the Linear-Zigzag Structural Phase Transition
2014 Omid Salehzadeh, PhD - Morphology and conductivity tuning of III-V semiconductor nanowires
2012 Michael Steger, Ph.D. - Photoluminescence of deep defects involving transition metals in silicon - new insights from highly enriched 28Si
2011 Michel Trottier-McDonald, M.Sc. - Identifying hadronic tau decays using calorimeter topological clusters at ATLAS
2005 Suckjoon Jun, PhD - Kinetic model of DNA replication and the looping of semiflexible polymers
1989 Sylvain Charbonneau, Ph.D. - Transient photoluminescence spectroscopy of GaAs, ZnSe, and GaAs/GaAlAs quantum wells
1986 Daniel Bruce Murray, M.Sc. - A model interacting Fermi gas and the fractional quantum Hall effect
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