Alumni

Paul Masset and David Rolnick awarded 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships

admin — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:27:07 +0000

Professors Paul Masset (Psychology) and David Rolnick (Computer Science) have been named Sloan Research Fellows.

Provost honours 31 ��ϲ�� professors for exceptional research achievements

admin — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:23:55 +0000

��ϲ�� announces 2025 cohort of Distinguished James ��ϲ�� Professors, James ��ϲ�� Professors and William Dawson Scholars
Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Christopher Manfredi has named 31 ��ϲ�� professors as Distinguished James ��ϲ�� Professors, James ��ϲ�� Professors or William Dawson Scholars. The internal awards recognize exceptional research achievements.

How a ��ϲ�� student’s teenage curiosity led to the first megalodon discovery in Canada

admin — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:08:27 +0000

Louis-Philippe Bateman’s fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada’s geological evolution. It described giant, mysterious fossilized shark teeth discovered in the 1960s by fishermen dredging for scallops off Canada’s Atlantic coast. The curiosity felt by the teenager with a budding interest in paleontology would resurface in a meaningful way during his undergraduate years at ��ϲ�� University.

Professor Courtney Paquette recipient of the CAIMS-SCMAI/PIMS Early Career Award (2025)

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:25:48 +0000

Professor Courtney Paquette is the winner of the 2025 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award.

��ϲ�� Professor Simon Caron-Huot awarded a 2025 Dorothy Killam Fellowship

admin — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:40:33 +0000

Simon Caron-Huot, Professor and Canada Research Chair in High-Energy Physics, has been awarded a 2025 Dorothy Killam Fellowship. The prestigious Dorothy Killam Fellowship is part of Canada’s National Killam Program, which also includes the Killam Prize. Eight Fellowships were awarded across the country.

The Dorothy Killam Fellowship provides researchers with up to two years of relief from teaching and administrative duties to focus on transformative research that has potential to positively improve Canadian lives.

Celebrating science fair mentor clubs and judging in Kahnawà:ke

admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:30:38 +0000

For the second year in a row, Science Outreach and student volunteers from the ��ϲ�� BrainReach and Chemistry Outreach groups collaborated with the Kahnawà:ke Education Center and local schools for their annual Science Fair and science mentor clubs.

Dr. Victoria Glynn creates art to communicate science

admin — Fri, 02 May 2025 18:13:54 +0000

Authors: Ava Craig, Camille Taggart, Raphaelle Reyes

"Art is like a common language that draws people in, regardless of their background." - Dr. Victoria Glynn

Four ��ϲ�� Faculty of Science students and graduates named finalists for the McCall MacBain Scholarships

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:22:39 +0000

Faculty of Science students Joshua Cheruvathur (BSc'25) and Elaine Xiao (BSc'25), as well as graduates Antoine Bourdin (BSc'24) and Chanel Perreault (BASc'22), are finalists for the McCall MacBain Scholarships at ��ϲ��.

2025 Fessenden Professorship Awards and Tomlinson Science Awards winners announced

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:36:19 +0000

The winners of the 2025 Fessenden Professorship Awards and Tomlinson Science Awards have been announced.

The Fessenden Professorship in Science and Innovation Award, named after Canadian electrical engineer Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, was established in 2007 to accelerate the validation and technology transfer of promising concepts in the early- or mid-stages of development and bring them closer to a commercial product and market.

Laura Lopez Gonzalez “borrows trust” in public health journalism

admin — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:59:19 +0000

By: Adele Lopes

"There's a power to witnessing and being able to recount something that has happened." - Laura Lopez Gonzalez

Aranka Hrušková (Weizmann Institute of Science)

admin — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:40:50 +0000

Title: Asymptotically commuting measures share the Furstenberg-Poisson boundary

Professor Emeritus Prakash Panangaden elected as Fellow of the Royal Society

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:59:15 +0000

From Lab to Life: Science Literacy Week @ ��ϲ�� this February!

admin — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:47:30 +0000

Join ��ϲ�� to celebrate the joys of science with Science Literacy Week! From February 22nd to 28th, delve into this year's theme, From Lab to Life and explore science in the everyday. Events include a study on the ancient Egyptian animal mummies in the Redpath Museum, a tour of the Maude Abbott Medical Museum, Science History Treasures in ��ϲ��’s Rare Books and Special Collections, and much more. Learn more here.

��ϲ�� researchers help ATLAS Collaboration share in 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:35:19 +0000

Twenty-eight ��ϲ�� researchers are among the winners of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their contributions to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Sometimes referred to as the Oscars of Science, Breakthrough prizes are awarded annually by the foundation of the same name for achievements in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics.

��ϲ�� researchers awarded funding from NSERC for quantum science

admin — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:28:53 +0000

On January 21, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), announced over $74 million in funding to support 107 quantum science projects, including fifteen to ��ϲ�� researchers.

Alumni

Paul Masset and David Rolnick awarded 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships

Provost honours 31 ���ϲ����� professors for exceptional research achievements

How a ���ϲ����� student’s teenage curiosity led to the first megalodon discovery in Canada