Awards & honours news

From the U of T President's Teaching Award to the Order of Canada, our students, faculty, staff and alumni consistently earn some of the most prestigious honours in their fields. We are proud to celebrate their success.

In 2015, Alison McGuigan and her team unveiled TRACER, a rolled-up strip of engineered tissue enabling scientists to mimic the way cells grow in a tumour. Two years later, they’ve created a new tool that now lets researchers watch tumour cells reorganize over time. (Courtesy: Alison McGuigan)

Expert in microfabrication and disease modelling awarded Connaught Fund McLean Award

September 29, 2017

Alison McGuigan (ChemE) receives $125,000 prize for her work that aims to create better mechanisms for predicting how well promising drugs will work in patients

Wei Yu elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

September 12, 2017

Professor recognized for his contributions to the fields of information theory and communication engineering

U of T Engineering researchers receive $12.8 million in NSERC research funding

September 9, 2017

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland visited the University of Toronto yesterday to announce $52.6 million in support to U of T researchers from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The announcement included more than $12.8 million to support the work of 100 graduate students and faculty members at U of […]

Professors Reza Iravani and Milica Radisic

Reza Iravani and Milica Radisic named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

September 7, 2017

Professors recognized for contributions to power grid innovation and tissue engineering, respectively

Professor Angela Schoellig named to MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35

August 16, 2017

U of T Engineering professor recognized in Pioneers category for research on control theory and machine learning applied to drones, autonomous vehicles and other robots

Julie Payette, astronaut and U of T Engineering alumna, named next Governor General

July 13, 2017

Payette, who is also an accomplished athlete, pianist and singer, will succeed David Johnston as Queen’s representative

George Myhal (IndE 7T8) has been named a Member of the Order of Canada, one of the nation's highest civilian honours. Investment in the Order recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. (Photo courtesy of George Myhal)

Two U of T Engineering alumni appointed to the Order of Canada

June 30, 2017

Investment in the Order recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation

Professor Tom Chau (IBBME), at left, has been inducted as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. The international leader in rehabilitation research joins eight U of T Engineering professors and alumni in the CAE's Class of 2017. (Credit: Neil Ta)

Nine Engineering professors and alumni inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering

June 27, 2017

CAE is a national institution through which Canada’s most distinguished and experienced engineers provide strategic advice on matters of critical importance to Canada

From left: U of T Engineering professors Constantin Christopoulos (CivE), Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez (IBBME), Joyce Poon (ECE) and Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) are among the 2017 new and renewed Canada Research Chair recipients. Launched in 2000, the CRC program aims to help the country attract and retain research leaders in engineering and natural sciences, health sciences, humanities and social sciences. (Credits, from left: Mark Balson, Neil Ta, Jason KB, Neil Ta).

Four U of T Engineering researchers receive Canada Research Chairs

June 7, 2017

Awards support research into earthquake resistant buildings, tissue engineering and more

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