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Student Awards:

1.  Faisal Aldaye.  (a)  Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Research (b) Udho Parsini Diwan Prize for best paper published in the McGill Chem. Dept in 2006 (c) Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division of the CSC Prize for Best Graduate Ph.D. Work, 2007 (across Canada) (d) Trends in Nanotechnology Conference poster award, Spain, Sept. 2007, (e) Pall Dissertation Award, 2006; (f) CSC Conf. Award, 2006; (g) Sterry Hunt Award,2006; (h) McFee award for excellence in research, 2004-5 and 2005-6;  (i) Zamboni award for excellence in research, 2005 and 2006


2.  Hassan Bazzi: (a) Ph. D. Degree with Dean’s Honor List, 2003, (b) Ambridge Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis in Physical Sciences at McGill, 2004, (c) Winkler Award for Best Chemistry Ph.D. thesis, McGill, 2004, (d) ADESAQ Prize for best doctoral dissertation in natural sciences and engineering in Quebec, 2004, (e) NSERC Postdoctoral Industrial Research Fellowship, 2003-2004, (f) MSED Prize for Best Graduate Ph.D. Work, 2003, (g) Robert Zamboni Prize for Excellence in Research, McGill University, 2002


3.   Jean Bouffard: (a) Pfizer Summer Research Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Honors research, “DNA-Mimetic Polymers”, 2002, (b) Anachemia Prize for Best Honors Thesis Research, McGill University, 2002

4. Katie Castor: (a) CIHR Chemical Biology Ph.D. Scholarship through McGill Dept. of Biochemistry, 2009-2010 (b) CIHR Drug Development Training Program Scholarship, 2010-2011.

5.  Jake Dalphond: (a) MDS Pharma Prize for Best Organic poster, Graduate Research Conference, Concordia University, 2001; (b) Best in Show Poster Award, Inorganic Discussion Weekend, University of Waterloo, 2001

6. Graham Hamblin: (a) Tomlinson Graduate Fellowship, Sept 2008 (b) NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship, 2009-2010 (b) Vanier Scholar, 2010-2013.

7.    Yoshihiro Ishihara, (a) NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship (PGSA), 2005-2007


8.    Lucas Lecours – Merck summer research fellowship


9.    Peggy Lo: CIHR Chemical Biology Ph.D. Scholarship, 2007-2008, and 2008-2009


10.   Chris McLaughlin: 1. CIHR Chemical Biology Ph.D. Scholarship, 2008-2009; 2. Bill and Christina Chan Fellowship in Chemistry for research excellence; 3. Sterry Hunt teaching award 2008


11.  Kim Metera: (a) MSED/LANXESS Award for best polymer presentation at the CSC Meeting 2008; (b) Robert Zamboni award for research excellence 2008; (c) best talk, CSACS student symposium (2007) (d) McConnell graduate Ph.D. fellowship 2006-2007 (e) NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship 2002-2005,  (f) CSC Prize for Best PosterPresentation, 87th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, May 2004, London, Ontario; (g) CSC Materials Division Award for Best Poster Presentation, 88th Canadian Chemistry Conference, May 2006, Halifax, NS


12.       Debbie Mitra: (a) CIHR Chemical Biology Scholarship,2002-2003, (b) First Prize for Best Graduate Talk, 2001 Symposium Annuel de Chimie Inorganique au Quebec (SACIQ), Sherbrooke, Quebec


13.       Alison Palmer - CIHR Chemical Biology Scholarship, 2004-2005


14.       Michel Paradis - M. Sc. Degree with Dean’s Honor List, 2000


15.  Mohamed Slim - CIHR Chemical Biology Scholarship, 2003-2004


16.  Hua Yang: Robert Zamboni award for research excellence 2008