Awards and honours 2020-21 | Faculty of Science

Awards and honours

Do you have what it takes to become a successful researcher? Find out what these incredible award-winning individuals have done to become top of their field.

Biology

Biology

Using rainbow trout to study glucose intolerance

Professor Jan Mennigen is the 2021 recipient of the Gorbman-Bern New Independent Investigator Award.

Chemistry and Biomolecular Sc.

Professor David Bryce is elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) is Canada’s National Academy, whose goal is to promote learning and research in the arts, the humanities and the sciences.

Physics

Revolutionary invention earns Professor Xiaoyi Bao a Governor General’s Innovat…

The Governor General’s Innovation Awards recognize and celebrate outstanding Canadian individuals, teams and organizations—trailblazers and creators who contribute to our country’s success, who help shape our future and who inspire the next generation.

Mathematics and Statistics

Mathematics and Statistics

Brilliant Mathematics Doctoral Student Wins Prestigious Award

The Governor General's Gold Medal — one of the highest honours attributed to graduate students in Canada — recognizes outstanding academic achievements.

Chemistry and Biomolecular Sc.

Chemistry and Biomolecular Sc.

Using chemistry education research to better equip student for their future

The Chemical Institute of Canada's (CIC) Award for Chemistry Education is presented as a mark of recognition to a person who has made an outstanding contribution in Canada to education at the post-secondary level in the field of chemistry or chemical engineering.

Multidisciplinary

Professors Roberto Chica, Ebrahim Karimi and Rajendhran Rajakumar

Multidisciplinary

Funding boost to accelerate the impact of our world-class research

Innovative ideas are rarely what is lacking to push research forward.

All awards and honours

Recipient	Department	Title
Alper, Howard	CBS
Bao, Xiaoyi	PHY
Bryce, David	CBS	Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Chica, Roberto	CBS
Flynn, Alison	CBS
Hemmer, Eva	CBS
Karimi, Ebrahim	PHY
Karimi, Ebrahim	PHY	Canadian Association of Physicists Herzberg Medal
Karimi, Ebrahim	PHY	Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Keillor, Jeffrey	CBS
Khoury, Joseph	MAT
Mennigen, Jan	BIO	Gorbman-Bern New Independent Investigator Award
Newman, Steve	BIO	2020/21 Faculty of Science Early Career Researcher of the Year Award
Pezacki, John	CBS
Rajakumar, Rajendhran	BIO
Woo, Tom	CBS	2020/21 Faculty of Science Award for Excellence in Research

Departments

BIO: Department of Biology
CBS: Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
EES: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
MAT: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
PHY: Department of Physics

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