Jonathan Corbett and Julia Puistonen awarding Prof. James Fraser the 2018/19 Geoff Lockwood Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching. 

(Photo credit: Prof. Dignam)

Jonathan Corbett and Julia Puistonen awarding Prof. Bob Gooding the 2018/19 Award for Excellence in Instruction in the Engineering Physics Program and Prof. Ryan Martin the 2018/19 Award for Excellence in Instruction in Pure Physics.

(Photo credit: Prof. Dignam)

Geneviève Hayes, an undergraduate student in Engineering Physics, attended and presented at the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging's (SCMR) 2019 Scientific Session in Seattle, Washington  in February 2019. Her research presentation was on the Optimization and Validation of Joint T1 and T2 Mapping conducted with the Stephenson Cardiac Imaging Centre this past summer. (Photos courtesy of G. Hayes)

The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, was at Queen's yesterday to announce that more than 90 Queen’s University researchers, including faculty, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows, are the beneficiaries of $4.6 million from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Shown left to right: Ted Hsu, Prof. Stéphane Courteau (Physics), The Honourable Minister of Science and Sport Kirsty Duncan, and Prof. Mark Chen (Physics and Gray Chair).
(Photo by Bernard Clark)

Congratulations Prof. Knobel for receiving the Dean Nathan F. Dupuis Leadership in Engineering Education Award, a one-time prize presented to a deserving faculty member by the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science in recognition of the 125th anniversary of engineering education at Queen’s. For more information, please visit Prof. Knobel's Award.

(Photo credit: Queen's Gazette)

Kyle Oppenheimer received the highest GPA in Engineering Physics Program. Congratulations Kyle!

Kyle is featured for his accomplishment in the promo video made by the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science 125. Click Kyle's responses for a longer video.

(Photo from video created by Matt Mills)

Congratulations to the Queen's Engineering Team for winning top prize in the Junior Design competition category at the 2019 OEC! Now they are off to the national competition held in March. For more information on the winning design, visit 2019 OEC Junior Design Winners!

From left to right: Chas Meadows (mining) , Connor Chappell (computer), Justin Bonal (engineering physics), and Matt Julseth(civil).
Photo courtesy of: Justin Bonal

A group of 15 dedicated Queen's physics and engineering physics students who are passionate about their field as well as gender and minority equity in physics attend the 2019 Canadian Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CCUWiP) in Ottawa. Special congratulations to Hadiya Ma for winning the Delegate's Choice Best Talk! Please see 2019 CCUWiP for more photos.

Big congratulations to engineering students (from left to right)  Sarah de Lazzari, Tiffanie Bankosky (Engineering Physics), Serena Corscadden, Kathryn Instrum for winning the top prize at the 2018 International Project Management Conference in Toronto!

For the full exciting story, please read All-female Engineering Student Team nets Top Prize at Project Management Conference.
(Photo used with permission from Tiffanie Bankosky)

Huge congratulations goes to Prof. Hughes who received a prestigious Humboldt Research Award for his outstanding research!

For more information, please visit Queen's Gazette. (Photo credit: Queen's Gazette)

Congratulations Malcolm Stott Teaching Assistant Award winners! From left to right:Thomas Faour (Fall 2017), Prof. Stott, Alex Piliounis (Winter 2018), and Kate Fenwick(runner up for Winter 2018). For more details, please visit Malcolm Stott 2017-2018 Winners. (Photo credit: Prof. Dignam)

Peter Revington, an undergraduate student in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, & Astronomy at Queen's, participated in in the Ontario/Rhône-Alpes Summer Research Program in Grenoble, France, at L'Institut de Microélectronique Electromagnétisme et Photonique et le Laboratoire d'Hyperfréquences et de Caractérisation (IMEP-LaHC) during the summer of 2018.

The Department was happy to sponsor Peter in this exciting opportunity. Read more about Peter's Summer Research Program experience. (Photo credit: Peter Revington)

This past summer, the department provided some financial assistance to one of our Eng Phys undergrads, Peter Carniglia, to assist him in submitting a paper to the IEEE Sensors 2018 conference.

This picture shows Peter at his student tradeshow where he presented his project in poster format at Shirley Bay Centre in Ottawa. Peter had a great Internship experience working at Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) in Ottawa. (photo provided by: Peter Carniglia)

Congratulations to the class of 2018 Honours Physics Program!

(Photo credit: Prof. Mark Chen)

Officially opening the Visitor Centre in Stirling Hall. From left: Barbara Crow, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science; Nathalie Ouellette, Communications, Education and Outreach Officer for the McDonald Institute; Tony Noble, Scientific Director of the McDonald Institute; and Benjamin Tam, a graduate student in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy. (Photo by Bernard Clark)

Proving that research is a team effort, past and present Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) employees and their family members gather around the plinth.

For more information, visit Commemorating the Nobel Prize-winning Research.
(University Communications)

Congratulations to the winners of the annual physics teaching awards at the Physics Banquet hosted at the Kingston Brew Pub.

Prof. Dignam (left) received the Geoff Lockwood Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching , Prof. Morelli received the Excellence in Instruction in the Engineering Physics Program award, and Prof. Martin Duncan, who was unable to attend, received the Excellence in Instruction in Pure Physics award.

For more pictures of the fun filled evening, please visit Physics Banquet 2018. (Photo Credit: Lucy Lu)

Dr. Webster, who is a graduate of Queen's Engineering Physics, developed the key Laser Depth Dynamics (LDD) technology called Inline Coherent Imaging (ICI) during his PhD under the supervision of Prof. James Fraser. For more information about the purchase of LDD, please visit Inline Coherent Imaging Goes Global.

(Image:University Communications Queen's Gazette)

Congratulations on your retirement Prof. Duncan!
From left to right: Prof. Duncan, Prof. Levison, wife Martha Hill Duncan, and daughter Claire Duncan at the Faculty Club retirement luncheon. For more pictures of the event please visit Prof. Duncan's retirement.

Congratulations! The first CFI grant, lead by Prof. Noble, will be used to build a next generation detector, PICO 500L, that will search for dark matter, while the second grant, lead by Profs. Hughes and Fraser, will be used to establish the Queen’s Nanophotonics Research Centre, which will explore the behaviour of light and light-matter interactions on the nanometre scale. See full article on Queen's Gazette.
(Photo credit: Queen's Gazette)

Congratulations! Prof. Kristine Spekkens (cross-appointed from the Royal Military College of Canada) is part of a research team that has secured a $10 million CFI Innovation Fund award for the development of a radio astronomy data centre. Click for more details of the story.

Image Credit: CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) showing the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder

Congratulations Dr. Schreiner for being elected a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine!

Please click to see the Press Release.

SNOLAB receives $28.8 million in provincial funding from Minister of Research, Innovation and Science, Reza Moridi (center).

(Photo credit:Queen's Gazette)

Fourth year Physics student, Iain MacKenzie (left) was sponsored by the Department to participate in the Hult Prize held in Dubai. To read about this year’s focus, his team’s performance and their experience, please read the Hult Prize Sponsorship story.

(Photo: provided by MacKenzie)

The PICO Collaboration, co-led by Prof. Tony Noble of the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, have found new exciting results from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector which is a bubble chamber filled with 52kg of C₃F₈. To read the submitted paper, please visit online at arXiv. (Photo: Queen's Gazette)

Celebrating Professor James Fraser's induction to prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship. From left to right, Provost Benoit-Antoine Bacon, Director-Centre for Teaching & Learning Peter Wolf, Department Head Marc Dignam, Prof. James Fraser.

(Photo: Queen's Gazette)

Congratulations to professor emeritus Arthur McDonald and the entire SNO Collaboration who have been awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! The $ 3 million prize is shared with four other international experimental collaborations studying neutrino oscillations: The Superkamiokande, Kamland, T2K/K2K and Daya Bay scientific collaborations.

(Background image: Roy Kaltschmidt from LBL)

Congratulations to professor emeritus Arthur McDonald, the co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics!

(Background image: Roy Kaltschmidt from LBL)