Award winning graduate students in Department of Physics

This a list of recent award winners amongst our graduate students.


List of national, provincial, and UofA Department of Physics awards and winners, from 2015 to present.

National Awards Won

NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

 2017: Jens Boos
2015: Pawel Mekarski

NSERC CGSD, PGSD

2020: Daniel Durnford
2017: Darcy Cordell, Scott Karbashewski
2016: Roshan Achal, Eric Koch, Alexandra Tetarenko, Clinton Potts, Peter Nguyen
2015: Joel Hutchinson, Vedran Jelic, Gian Matharu, Hugh Ramp

NSERC CGSM, PGSM

2020: Joseph Lindon, Nils Refvik
2019: Brittany Lu
2018: Aaron Lyons, Mason Protter, Joseph Willis
2017: Ahmed Rayyan
2016: Andrzej Pokraka, Wyatt Vine
2015: Colin Brisco, Darcy Cordell, Olivia Henderson

Provincial Awards Won

Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship, PhD

2019: Aarat Kalra, Andrei Tretiakov, Pramodh Senarath Yapa
2018: Noel Hoffer, Aaron Lyons
2017: Francesco Gentile, Hennadii Yerzhakov, Clinton Potts
2016: Roshan Achal, Joel Hutchinson, Peter Nguyen
2015: Gian Matharu, Pawel Mekarski, Hugh Ramp, Kirsty Gardner

Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship, MSc

2017: Wyatt Vine
2015: Kirsty Gardner, Taras Hrushevskyi

Andrew Stewart Memorial Prize

2020: Noel Hoffer, Clinton Potts
2019: Jens Boos, Joel Hutchinson, Eric Koch 
2016: Bradley Hauer
2015: Arash Bahramian

Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship

 2016: Bradley Hauer
2015: Pawel Mekarski (honorary)

Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship

 2019: Clayton Coutu, Coleman Dean, Daniel Durnford, Cedar Hanneson, Pavan Hebbar, Andrew Hughes, Eric Koch, Ben Lee, David Purschke, Pramodh Senarath Yapa, Michelle Sullivan, Kenny Van, Hennadii Yerzhakov, Yue Zhao

University of Alberta Awards Won

U of A Governor General's Gold Medal

 2010, Fall: Joel St. Aubin
2008, Fall: David Kubiznak
2007, Spring: Aaron Hryciw
2005, Fall: David Maybury
2004, Fall: Kristen Buchanan
2001, Spring: Wayne Hiebert
2000, Fall: Patrick Sutton

U of A Graduate Student Teaching Awards

2020: Jose Pinedo Soto, Maria Pettyjohn, Steven Fahlman, Wei Shen, William Morrish, Zoe Vestrum

Department of Physics Awards Won

Golden Bell Jar Graduate Scholarship in Physics

 2020: Andrew Hughes
2019: Shankar Ganesh

 

Dr Edo Nyland International Graduate Scholarship in Geophysics 

2020: Rongzhi Lin
2019: Jingchuan Wang
2018: Fernanda Carozzi
2017: Enci Wang
2016: Yunfeng Chen
2015: Wenlei Gao

Ernest Kanasewich Memorial Graduate Scholarship 

2020: Ana Ortega Perez
2019: Jorge Nustes Andrade
2018: Cedar Hanneson
2017: Edouard Kravchinsky
2016: Darcy Cordell
2015: Tyson Epp

Willa & Stuart B Woods Graduate Scholarship in Physics 

2020: Matt Rudd
2019: Tanisha Mehreen
2018: Michelle Sullivan
2017: Clinton Potts
2016: David Purschke
2015: Joel Hutchinson, Hennadii Yerzhakov

Dr Isaac Yakoub Isaac Graduate Scholarship in Physics 

2020: Pramodh Senarath Yapa

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers Graduate Scholarship in Geophysics 

2019: Hanh Bui, Yiru Zhou
2018: Ben Lee, Jieyu Zhang
2017: Breno Figueiredo Bahia, Xiaowen Liu
2016: Mauricio Reyes Canales, Landon Safron
2015: Vivian Ebufegha, Ruijia Wang