Samuel Beatty Awards for 2006 Awards will be given on the basis of academic performance during the previous year and on the basis of need. Any student in second, third or fourth year and taking a Specialist Programme offered by the Departments of Mathematics, Physics, Statistics or Computer Science is eligible. Students can apply on the web here: http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/scholarship.2006. Professor Lisa Jeffrey has been awarded a Steacie Fellowship The Steacie Fellowship is awarded by NSERC to researchers who are not more than 12 years from their PhD for outstanding scientific achievements which have earned them an international reputation. Professor Bálint Virág Wins 2004 Sloan Fellowship Congratulations to Professor Bálint Virág, who is among 100 outstanding young scientists nationwide who recently were selected to receive Sloan Research Fellowships. The Sloan Research Fellowship Program, sponsored by the New York-based Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, was established in 1955. Fellows are selected from a pool of the nation's best young scientists. Each fellowship includes an unrestricted grant of $35,000.