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.

Elizabeth Edwards is one of the five recipients of this year’s Killam Prizes, presented by the Canada Council for the Arts. (Photo: Jen Hsu)

Professor Elizabeth Edwards wins Killam Prize

Killam Prizes presented by the Canada Council for the Arts to honour eminent Canadian scholars and scientists actively engaged in research

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U of T Engineering honours 10 faculty and staff at the 9th annual Celebrating Engineering Excellence event

Event recognizes exceptional leadership, citizenship, innovation and commitment to the Faculty’s teaching and research mission

Professor Adam Steinberg (UTIAS) is the first person to receive the Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award from the Combustion Institute. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Professor Adam Steinberg receives the Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award

Professor Adam Steinberg (UTIAS) is the first recipient of the Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award, presented by the Combustion Institute, which recognizes excellence in fundamental or applied combustion science research.

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Professor Michael Sefton receives European Society for Biomaterials International Award

Award recognizes his scientific profile, major contributions to the field of biomaterials and longstanding active collaboration with the European scientific community

Alumna Marisa Sterling (far right) and members of the Ontario Professional Engineers Foundation for Education pose with undergraduate scholarship recipients in the Bahen Centre for Information Technology.

Ontario Professional Engineers Foundation for Education awards scholarships to 10 U of T Engineering students

Foundation presented two admission scholarships and eight in-course scholarships worth a total $15,000

Before drilling underneath a city of skyscrapers, engineers such as Professor Giovanni Grasselli need sophisticated models of how the rock underneath might react to physical forces. (Credit: Jonathan Moore via Flickr)

Advanced imaging techniques let U of T engineers see inside rock

Professor Giovanni Grasselli’s research improves predictions of how different rock types respond to engineering activities, from hydraulic fracturing to excavating a new subway tunnel to capturing carbon underground

Prof David Sinton (MIE) has been awarded a 2015 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). (Photo: NSERC)

10,000 greenhouses: Professor David Sinton awarded E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship

Award supports research into optimizing the growth of photosynthetic microorganisms that can use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into chemical products and ultimately fuels

U of T Professors Professor Ted Sargent and Shana Kelley are co-recipients of this year’s Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering. (Photo: NSERC)

Desktop diagnosis: Professors Ted Sargent and Shana Kelley receive Brockhouse Canada Prize

Award recognizes interdisciplinary research partnership for development of a faster, more cost-effective way to diagnose infectious diseases

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Seven U of T engineers awarded Canada Research Chairs

New and renewed chairholders will pursue projects ranging from tracking the fate of chemicals in the environment to developing new sources of sustainable energy