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.

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

University Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME) and University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts & Science) have both been elected as Foreign Members of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. (Photo: Roberta Baker/Johnny Guatto)

Two U of T profs elected as Foreign Members of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering

Members of the NAE rank among the world’s most accomplished engineers; only four Canadians were inducted to the academy for 2016

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Craig Simmons named U of T Distinguished Professor of Mechanobiology

Professor Craig Simmons (MIE, IBBME) has been named the University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Mechanobiology, an honour that recognizes his exceptional career accomplishments and promise. Issued by the U of T Office of the Vice-President and Provost, Simmons will hold the title for a five-year period, beginning July 1, 2016. He is one of […]

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Professor Michael Sefton awarded the Terumo Global Science Prize

University of Toronto engineering professor Michael Sefton (ChemE, IBBME) has been named the 2016 recipient of the Terumo Global Science Prize for his achievements in tissue engineering and novel biomaterials discovery. This is only the third time the Terumo Foundation for Life Sciences and Arts has awarded the prize. Sefton joins an elite list of […]

Professor Emeritus Andrew Goldenberg is the 2016 recipient of the IEEE Canada A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal.

Professor Emeritus Andrew Goldenberg honoured with IEEE Canada A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal

Professor Emeritus Andrew Goldenberg (MIE) is the 2016 recipient of the A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Canada. The award is the IEEE Canada’s highest honour, recognizing outstanding Canadian engineers for their exemplary contributions to the engineering profession. Goldenberg is the founder of the field of Robotics at University of Toronto, […]