News & Events
| Month/Year | News or Event |
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| Oct 2019 | Winners of Malcolm Stott Teaching Award... ...read more |
| Aug 2019 | Sarah Choudhury's small images ...read more |
| Aug 2019 | GIRLS Camp was out of this world! ...read more |
| July 2019 | Prof. Anne Topper receives the Golden Apple Award! ...read more |
| July 2019 | Queen's Hyperloop Design Team competes at the 2019 Hyperloop Pod Competition ...read more |
| July 2019 | Connor Stone was chosen to attend the 69th Lindau Conference ...read more |
| June 2019 | Jonathan Corbett places third in the 2019 CAP University Exam ...read more |
| June 2019 | Erin Crawley receives four medals at Convocation ...read more |
| May 2019 | Prof. Carrington and Prof. Daymond receive Prizes for Excellence in Research ...read more |
| May 2019 | Prof. Narayanan receives First Year Instructor Teaching Award ...read more |
| Mar 2019 | Physics Professors are honoured at the Physics Banquet 2018/2019 ...read more |
| Jan 2019 | Congratulations Prof. Knobel for receiving the Dean Nathan F. Dupuis Leadership in Engineering Education Award ...read more |
| Jan 2019 | Congratulations to the 2019 OEC Junior Design category winners! ...read more |
| Jan 2019 | Queen's students at the Canadian Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CCUWIP) 2019; Congratulations to Hadiya Ma ...read more |
| Dec 2018 | Congratulations to Prof. Hughes for receiving this year's Humboldt Research Award ...read more |
| Oct 2018 | Congratulations Thomas Faour and Alex Piliounis, the winners of the Malcolm Stott TA Awards for 2017-2018! ...read more |
| Sept 2018 | Eng Physics Undergrad -- Peter Carniglia's Internship Experience ...read more |
| Sept 2018 | Peter Revington's 2018 Summer Research Program in Grenoble, France ...read more |
| Sept 2018 | The Department mourns the loss of Emeritus Professor Hugh C. Evans ...read more |
| June 2018 | Congratulations to the 2018 graduating class of the Physics Honours Program ...read more |
| May 2018 | Visitor Centre unveiled in Stirling Hall ...read more |
| April 2018 | Commemorating the Nobel Prize-winning Research ...read more |
| April 2018 | Dr. Natalie Ouellette wins the Young Researcher Ambassador Award ...read more |
| Mar 2018 | 2018 Canadian Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics was held at Queen's University ...read more |
| Mar 2018 | Physics Professors are honoured at the Physics Banquet 2017/2018!...read more |
| Mar 2018 | Congratulations to the Engineering Physics class of 2018!...read more |
| Jan 2018 | Inline Coherent Imaging technology goes global ...read more |
| Jan 2018 | Prof. Martin Duncan's retirement ...read more |
| Oct 2017 | Our Students at the CUPC 2017 Conference ...read more |
| Oct 2017 | Congratulations Matthew McNish and Benjamin Tam, the winners of the Malcolm Stott TA Awards for 2016-2017! ...read more |
| Oct 2017 | CFI grant of $4.8 Million is awarded to invest in dark matter and optical science ...read more |
| Oct 2017 | Prof. Spekkens shares in the $10 Million in the New Research Funding ...read more |
| Sept 2017 | Dr. Schreiner is elected a Fellow at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine ...read more |
| July 2017 | SNOLAB receives $28.8 million in provincial funding ...read more |
| May 2017 | New Eyes on the Universe Exhibit at Agnes Etherington Art Cente ...read more |
| May 2017 | Prof. Emeritus and Nobel Laureate Art McDonald is inducted to the National Academy of Sciences ...read more |
| Mar 2017 | Physics Professors are honoured at the Physics Banquet 2016/201 ...read more |
| Mar 2017 | Congratulations to Engineering Physics class of 2017 ...read more |
| Mar 2017 | Hultz Prize Sponsorship 2017...read more |
| Feb 2017 | Professor Ryan Martin receives funding from CFI ...read more |
| Feb 2017 | A Giant Step Forward in the Quest for Dark Matter ...read more |
| Feb 2017 | Prof. James Fraser receives a prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellow ...read more |
| Jan 2017 | SNOLAB receives $28.6 million from CFI ...read more |
| Dec 2016 | Public Lecture to be given by Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus Art McDonald ...read more |
| Nov 2016 | Professor Hughes becomes a Fellow of the Optical Society of America ...read more |
| Oct 2016 | Dr. Art McDonald has been awarded yet another honour...read more |
| Oct 2016 | Former Queen's Physics Prof. shares 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics!...read more |
| Sept 2016 | Queen’s receives $63.7 million federal government investment to form Canadian Particle Astrophysics Research Centre...read more |
| Aug 2016 | Prof. Knobel and team explores the promise of the quantum realm...read more |
| July 2016 | London's Canada House shows Nobel Prize winning research exhibit...read more |
| June 2016 | Faculty and Students win big at the 2016 CAP Congress...read more |
| June 2016 | Emeritus Professor and Nobel Laureate Dr. Art McDonald is named to Government of Canada Review Panel for Scientific Research...read more |
| June 2016 | Emeritus Professor and Nobel Laureate Dr. Art McDonald is honoured with the Order of Ontario...read more |
| June 2016 | Nicholas Fantin wins the Best Student Poster Presentation at the 2016 CASCA conference...read more |
| June 2016 | Engineering Physics graduate, Emily Been receives two big awards at June 1st Graduation Ceremony ...read more |
| June 2016 | Engineering Physics graduate, Kim Sturgess receives Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science ...read more |
| May 2016 | Prof. Emeritus and 2015 Nobel Laureate Art McDonald is elected to the National Academy of science in the US ...read more |
| April 2016 | Prof. James Fraser receives the 2016 CAP Medal for Excellence in Teaching ...read more |
| April 2016 | Undergraduate Simon Axelrod places first in the 2016 CAP Prize Exam! ...read more |
| Mar 2016 | Premier Kathleen Wynne visits Kingston Nano Fabrication Laboratory ...read more |
| Mar 2016 | Come vote for the People Choice Award at the Physics f(x): First-Year Learner Fair! ...read more |
| Mar 2016 | Congratulations to Engineering Physics Class of 2016 ...read more |
| Mar 2016 | Congratulations to the professors honoured in excellence in teaching at the End of the Physics Year Banquet...read more |
| Mar 2016 | Professor Emeritus and 2015 Nobel Prize winner Art McDonald becomes an Ambassador for Canadian Innovation...read more |
| Mar 2016 | Professor Emeritus and 2015 Nobel Prize winner Art McDonald visits the House of Commons...read more |
| Jan 2016 | Prof. Larry Widrow in the National Geographic's "Dwarf Galaxy's Close Encounter Shakes Up the Milky Way"...read more |
| Jan 2016 | Engineering Physics Orientation Night 2016 Information...read more |
| Jan 2016 | Professor Emeritus and Nobel Laureate Art McDonald is made a Companion of the Order of Canada...read more |
| Dec 2015 | Professor Emeritus and Nobel Laureate Art McDonald receives his Nobel Prize in Stockholm...read more |
| Dec 2015 | Professor Emeritus and Nobel Laureate Art McDonald meets with Governor General David Johnston at Rideau Hall...read more |
| Nov 2015 | Dr. Art McDonald and SNO Collaboration share the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics...read more |
| Oct 2015 | Researchers discover distant galactic halos ...read more |
| Oct 2015 | Professor Emeritus Art MacDonald wins the Nobel Prize! ...read more |
| Oct 2015 | Announcing the creation of The Malcolm Stott Teaching Assistant Award ...read more |
| Sept 2015 | Gerry Angelatos is the first to complete the Accelerated Master's Degree ...read more |
| Sept 2015 | PhD candidate Matt Shultz discovers the first massive binary star with unique properties ...read more |
| Sept 2015 | Prof. Fraser wins 2015 Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Teaching Award ...read more |
| Aug 2015 | New model solves the mystery of how gas giant planets are formed in the early solar system...read more |
| June 2015 | Prof. Chen and Prof. Wright win provincial research awards...read more |
| June 2015 | Former graduate student, John Weymouth wins major prize...read more |
| June 2015 | Cara(Chenman)Yin wins the People's Choice Award at the national 3MT competition...read more |
| June 2015 | Prof. Mark Chen receives CFI's (Canadian Foundation for Innovation) 2015 Innovation Fund...read more |
| May 2015 | Physics PhD student Matt Shultz, debunking the theory behind massive stars...read more |
| April 2015 | NanoFabrication Kingston lab opens...read more |
| April 2015 | Prizes for Excellence in Research Public Lectures...read more |
| Mar 2015 | Bheeshmon Thanabalasingam and Prof. James Fraser are honoured at AMS...read more |
| Mar 2015 | Physics' own graduate student Chenman (Cara) Yin wins 3MT Final Promotion competition...read more |
| Mar 2015 | Physics professors honoured for their teaching...read more |
| Feb 2015 | Engineering Physics Information Session will be held on Feb 2nd starting at 7 pm at Stirling Hall Auditorium...read more |
| Jan 2015 | The Department mourns the loss of Professor Geoff Lockwood...read more |
| Nov 2014 | Dalton Kellet, fourth year Engineering Physics student signs with Andretti Autosport... read more |
| Nov 2014 | Dr. Stephen Hughes to be honoured for his outstanding research in Physics... read more |
| Sep 2014 | Dr. Gilles Gerbier has joined the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy as the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Particle Astrophysics...read more |
| Aug 2014 | Emeritus Professor Alec Stewart passed away...read more |
| July 2014 | Physics professors honoured for their teaching...read more |
| Jan 2014 | Dr. Alex Wright has been awarded $400,000 from the Canada Foundation for ...read more |
| Dec 2013 | We are delighted to announce that Prof. Mark Chen has been named to the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics, effective 1 July 2014. |
| Nov 2013 | Physics graduate student David Taylor was awarded the Educational Excellence Teaching Assistant Award for 2012/13 by the Queen's Engineering Society (EngSoc)...read more |
| Nov 2013 | Dr. Jean-Michel Nunzi is featured in an article by the Queen's News Centre regarding his leading-edge research in photonics...read more |
| Oct 2013 | A team of Queen's Physics undergraduate students has won the bid to host the *50th* Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference in Fall 2014.The conference will bring approximately...read more |
| Sept 2013 | Medical physicist John Schreiner has won one of the Fellow of COMP awards presented at the joint annual scientific meeting of...read more |
| Aug 2013 | PhD student Majd Abdelqader has won a Hartle Award for the best student presentation in his specialist session at...read more |
| June 2013 | Prof. Marc Dignam was named the recipient of the 2012/13 Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Teaching Physics, as selected by students...read more |
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Jean-Michel Nunzi and co-applicants James Stotz and Dominik Barz (Chem. Eng.) won a $400,000 grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation ...read more |
| May 2013 | The 2013 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize, for an outstanding contribution to Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology in the past 15 years...read more |
| Mar 2013 | Canada Excellence Research Chair in Experimental Particle Astrophysics Applications are now invited for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Particle Astrophysics in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy. |
| Dec 2012 | From the Queen's News Centre: "As senior research associate for the SNOLAB Research Group, Dr. Skensved has made substantial contributions to the success of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and now the SNOLAB underground laboratory...read more |
| Oct 2012 | Paul Webster was awarded the 2012 Martin Walmsley Fellowship for Technological Entrepreneurship from the Ontario Centres of Excellence...read more |
| Aug 2012 | James Fraser has been awarded the 2012 Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching -- the most prestigious award for teaching at Queen's. Details can be found read more. |
| May 2012 | 3MT is a university wide competition for Queen's Masters and Doctoral students in which participants present their research and its wider impact in 3 minutes or less to a panel of non-specialist judges..read more |
| April 2012 | Video of the 2012 Cave Lecture, Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?, given by Chris Impey on March 29 can be viewed or downloaded from here: https://www.physics.queensu.ca/Video/Impey_Cave_Lecture_W2012.mp4 |
| Feb 2012 | James Fraser and his collaborators have won a $435K NSERC research grant to support future development in automatic laser cutting technology. |
| Jan 2012 | The Honorable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, has announced that Queen's University's Professor Art McDonald, the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair...read more |
| Jan 2012 | James Fraser and PhD student Paul Webster have been announced as the winners of this year's Atherton Entrepreneurship Award...read more |
| Oct 2011 | We are delighted to be able to announce that Wolfgang Rau's Tier II Canada Research Chair in Particle Astrophysics has been renewed for a second five-year term. |
| Sep 2011 | Tony Noble has won the Award for Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Applied Science for his Winter Term 2011 presentation of APSC 112. |
| Sep 2011 | The Royal Society of Canada has just announced that Art McDonald has been awarded the Henry Marshall Tory Medal for 2011...read more |
| Jan 2011 | Dr. Kevin Robbie (Engineering Physics and Astronomy) was awarded $477,000 over three years to develop cost-effective...read more |
| Nov 2011 | Mark Boulay (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy), a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Particle Astrophysics, received $500,000 over five years to...read more |
| Aug 2010 | Philippe Di Stefano (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy received $185,102 to study discriminating detectors for dark matter and exploring the origins of the universe. |
| Jan 2010 | From the Queen's News Centre: 2010-01-21 Queen's physicists Mark Boulay and Mark Chen have received $9,051,791 from...read more |
| Dec 2009 | Philippe Di Stefano (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy) received $185,102 to study cryogenic detectors for dark matter and brittle fracture. |
| Nov 2009 | Kevin Robbie (Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy) and his team received $1.4 million...read more |
| Sept 2009 | From the Queen's News Centre: 2009-09-03 An international team of astronomers, including Queen's University physicist Larry Widrow, have uncovered evidence of a nearby cosmic encounter...read more |
| June 2009 | From the Queen's News Centre: 2009-06-23 Queen's University physicists Mark Boulay and Mark Chen have received over $10.5 million...read more |
| May 2009 | From the Queen's News Centre: 2009-05-15 Queen's Physics professor Art McDonald is one of three Canadians elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the national academy of science of the UK...read more |
| April 2009 | Stephane Courteau (Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy)received an NSERC Discovery Grant towards the understanding of galaxy structure. |
| Sept 2008 | James Stotz was recently been awarded an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation...read more |
| June 2008 | Stephen Hughes and James Stotz, in collaboration with groups at NRC, UBC, U. Waterloo, and...read more |
| April 2008 | Taken from the Queen's News Centre at http://qnc.queensu.ca: Physicist Art McDonald, director of the Queen's-led Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is one of 30 Canadians who was awarded Officer of the Order of Canada at last week's investiture ceremony in Ottawa...read more |
| April 2008 | The American Physical Society has identified Kayll Lake as an Outstanding Referee, a category which they reserve for individuals who provide a continuing and very high level of expert service to the international scientific community...read more |
| Jan 2008 | On Friday January 18th, Ontario Research and Innovation Minister John Wilkinson presented $18 million over 5 years to Anthony Noble, SNOLAB Director, for ongoing research at the world's deepest scientific laboratory...read more |