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We wish to acknowledge the outstanding efforts and achievements of the following Winter 2021 Graduate TA Award winners. Through these challenging times the very positive attitude and teaching skills of these individuals has had considerable impact on enhancing the reputation of our undergraduate programs.

Harmeen Deol
Neil Raymond
Tyler Lott
Justin Shmordok
Upneet Bala

Congratulations!

A twenty-minute saliva-based COVID-19 test may be coming soon to a pharmacy near you, thanks to researchers at the University of Waterloo.

Professors Juewen Liu from Chemistry, and Sushanta Mitra from Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering are co-leading the development of a new COVID-19 test that can be administered at home using saliva, aiming to deliver a positive or negative result in less than 20 minutes.

From the smallest of nanomaterials to the edges of our known galaxy, and every water droplet in between, researchers in the Faculty of Science are pushing the boundaries of knowledge.

Congratulations to Professor Graham Murphy of the Department of Chemistry, who was awarded the 2021 Keith Fagnou Award by the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC).

Congratulations to Professor Jean Duhamel of the Department of Chemistry, who was awarded the 2021 Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award by the Chemical Institute of Canada. The award is presented to an individual who “has made a distinguished contribution to macromolecular science or engineering."

The Materials Research Society (MRS) presented Waterloo chemist Linda Nazar with the 2020 MRS Medal for “outstanding contributions to advanced materials design, synthesis and characterization for energy storage, particularly Li battery technologies.” 

The internationally recognized honour, which she shared with Yi Cui of Stanford University, was announced this month at the virtual 2020 MRS Fall Meeting.

Associate Professor Scott Hopkins was awarded the Young Investigator Award for 2020 this month by the Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry. The award is presented to a Canadian researcher (or researcher working in Canada) who has made an impact in in the field of mass spectrometry within 15 years of their Ph.D.

We wish to acknowledge the outstanding efforts and achievements of the following Fall 2020 Graduate TA Award winners. Through these challenging times the very positive attitude and teaching skills of these individuals has had considerable impact on enhancing the reputation of our undergraduate programs. 

Alshymaa Ali Mohammad Ali
Harmeen Deol
Anand Lopez
Ksenila Medvedeva
Michael Noden
Kyle Piccolo
Mike Tarasca
Alex Whittingham

Congratulations!

We can all agree that 2020 has been the most unusual year as we struggle to cope with a global pandemic that has uprooted nearly every aspect of how we live and work. A year ago, terms like ‘social distancing’, and ‘you’re on mute’ meant nothing to me. In 2019, I weaved through grand crowds at the local farmer’s market without a mask, not thinking twice about the proximity of my fellow shoppers.

By Lewis Brubacher, colleague and friend

Gerry Toogood died on November 30, 2020. This leaves a large hole in our lives.

When I came to the University of Waterloo in August 1969, it did not take long to get to know Gerry. We soon became good friends in the Chemistry Department, and in later years we worked together on several departmental projects.