CPS Grad Spotlight - Faisal Halabeya

Name: Faisal Halabeya

MSc or PhD Candidate: PhD Candidate

Location of Undergraduate Education: BA in Physics, Boston University

Name of the Lab at CPS: Milstein Lab

Selected Awards: CPS Teaching Fellowship, June Scott Teaching Excellence Award for Teaching Assistants

Selected Research Contributions: Second author on a paper titled Mechanics limits ecological diversity and pr

LEAF Grant Awarded to Jess Slomka, Lindsay Schoenbohm and Interdisciplinary Team!

LEAF Grant Awarded to Jess Slomka, Lindsay Schoenbohm and Interdisciplinary Team!

An interdisciplinary team consisting of Lab Coordinators and Faculty in CPS (Earth Sciences, including Jess Slomka, Lab Coordinator, and Professor Lindsay Schoenbohm), Biology, Geography, Anthropology/Archaeology, and the Office of Indigenous Initiatives at UTM, was recently awarded a Learning & Education Advancement Fund (LEAF)

Aiyan Brown from the Gradinaru Lab receives the BSC Travel Award

Aiyan Brown from the Gradinaru Lab receives the BSC Travel Award

Aiyan Brown, MSc student in the Gradinaru Lab, receives the Biophysical Society of Canada (BSC) Travel Award to attend the 2025 Biophysical Society (BPS) annual meeting in Los Angeles this February. 

The BSC Travel Award is a merit-based support for students and postdoctoral fellows whose research supervisor is a member of the BSC.  

Congratulations on this achievement, Aiyan!

CPS Grad Spotlight - Mauricio Barcelos Haag

CPS Grad Spotlight - Mauricio Barcelos Haag

Name: Mauricio Barcelos Haag

MSc or PhD Candidate: PhD Candidate

Location of Undergraduate Education: BSc in Geology and MSc in Earth Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Name of the Lab at CPS: Schoenbohm Lab

Selected Awards: Globalink Graduate Fellowship, MITACS Canada (2021-2022); Graduate Research Award, Geo- and Thermochronology Lab, University of Calgary (2022-2023); Research Grant

Milstein & Zilman Labs Discover How Confined Bacteria Organize, Paving the Way for New Disease Treatments

Milstein & Zilman Labs Discover How Confined Bacteria Organize, Paving the Way for New Disease Treatments

Researchers at U of T, in a collaboration between the Zilman Lab and Professor Josh Milstein of UTM’s Chemical and Physical Sciences Department, have discovered that confined bacterial populations can spontaneously organize, allowing weaker bacteria to coexist with stronger ones—an insight that may lead to new treatments for certain diseases. Read more here.

CPS Grad Spotlight - B Kell

Name: B Kell

MSc or PhD Candidate: PhD Candidate

Location of Undergraduate Education: HBSc in Biological Physics & Mathematics, University of Toronto

Name of the Lab at CPS: Hilfinger Group

Selected Awards: Faculty of Arts & Science Top Doctoral Fellowship & Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Selected Research Contributions:

  1. Kell, B., Ripsman, R., Hilfinger

Kent Moore Awarded Patterson Distinguished Service Medal

Kent Moore Awarded Patterson Distinguished Service Medal

Kent Moore, who holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Theoretical Geophysics of Climate Change and Vice-Principal, Research at UTM, was honored with the 2023 Patterson Distinguished Service Medal by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). This accolade recognizes his exceptional contributions to Canadian meteorology.

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