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Tara Forstner won the award for best poster at this year's AUGC (Atlantic Universities Geological Conference) held at Â鶹´«Ã½, Oct. 18-20, 2012. The award's sponsor was Imperial Oil and her poster was titled "Bedrock incision and surface uplift rates of the western Hangay Dome, Mongolia."

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At the 2012 Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference, Â鶹´«Ã½ landed two first-place wins and one third-place finish:

Brendan Nickerson (third year) placed first in the atomic, moldecular and optical physics category for his talk,"Digital In-line Holographic Microscopy: A Practical and Mathematical Understanding".

Landan MacDonald (4th year) placed first in the earth, ocean and atmospheric science category for his talk, "Understanding the Effects of Human-Generated Aerosols on Precipitation".

Bejamin Levitan  (4th year) placed third in the Theoretical and Mathematical Physics category for his talk, "An introduction to Adiabatic Quantum Computing".