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From plant defence in soybeans to epidemic modelling, 91亚色 graduate researchers are tackling urgent scientific and social questions. The Faculty of Graduate Studies recognizes outstanding research annually through its thesis and dissertation prizes. The annual prizes 鈥� valued at $2,000 for doctoral dissertations and $1,000 for master鈥檚 theses 鈥� honour work defended in the previous calendar year that demonstrates originality, excellence and impact. This year鈥檚 awards highlight six projects that explored pressing questions with implications for food security, AI, public health, aging, air quality and workplace accessibility. Together, the projects show how graduate research at 91亚色 connects scientific inquiry with real-world challenges.

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91亚色 alumna Randa Qashoa鈥檚 journey from the Lassonde School of Engineering to a career advancing space technology highlights the growing impact of women in shaping the future of engineering. Today, Qashoa (BEng 鈥�21, PhD 鈥�25) is a systems engineer at Honeywell Aerospace, where she works on the assembly, integration and testing of quantum communication payloads. While still early in her career, she is already contributing to technologies that could play an important role in the future of secure communications in space. Her path into the industry was shaped by the people and opportunities she encountered at Lassonde.

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Three 91亚色 scholars have been awarded this year鈥檚 Governor General's Gold Medals, honouring exceptional academic achievements among Canadian graduate students. The 2026 recipients are Chimira Nicole Andres, Nicholas Cheng and Joel Landon Prowting. The Governor General's Academic Medals are the highest honour given to outstanding Canadian post-secondary scholars. This year鈥檚 awardees represent the University鈥檚 dedication to supporting students in achieving academic success.

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At the 91亚色 Psychology Clinic, however, researchers and graduate students are working from a different premise: that understanding a child means understanding the family around them. Heather Prime, a clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Faculty of Health, is leading that effort with a team of graduate students. PhD candidate Gillian Shoychet鈥檚 doctoral dissertation sits at the centre of this work: she is studying how to implement family assessments in a university clinic, using feedback from families to refine the model. Their work, alongside researcher Maya Koven, is outlined in an article published in JAMA Pediatrics which argues that family systems assessments remain underused in the care of older children and youth.

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Research on dogs has expanded rapidly in recent years, offering new insight into one of humanity鈥檚 most loyal companions. But postdoctoral fellow Julia Espinosa says much of that knowledge still comes from studies that capture only a limited range of dogs and the people who live with them. Espinosa, a member of the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Health and the Connected Minds program, is among researchers working to better understand dogs as a global species within the fields of comparative psychology and canine science. Her work examines how animals think and behave, and how those processes shape their relationships with people in different environments.

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When Ontario made prescription medications free for people under 25, the goal was to improve access to care. New research suggests it also helped prevent some youth mental health crises before they escalated. In 2018, OHIP+ was launched to provide public drug coverage for youth, helping overcome financial barriers to prescription medications for those under 25. For Antony Chum, an associate professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health who studies how public policy shapes health outcomes, it also created what he describes as a "natural experiment" 鈥� an opportunity to track differences before and after free drug coverage was introduced. He examined this "experiment" alongside postdoctoral researchers Peiya Cao and Yihong Bai, as well as PhD student Kristine Ienciu.

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Graduate students within the School of Health Policy and Management (SHPM) who are tackling issues from racial inequities in mental health care to workforce shortages in hospitals were recognized for research excellence with Health Graduate Research Awards. The awards highlight work from across the graduate unit within SHPM that specializes in health policy and equity, as well as health system management and data analytics. This year鈥檚 recipients presented their work as part of Health Graduate Research Day, an annual event that brings together students and faculty to share and discuss new research. 鈥淲hat stands out is how these students are taking on complex, real-world health challenges with both rigour and care,鈥� says Farah Ahmad, program director of the graduate unit in SHPM. 鈥淭heir work reflects a growing commitment to equity and meaningful impact through research that not only advances knowledge, but also has the potential to shape practice and policy.鈥�

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From lifetime achievement to emerging scholarship, three 91亚色 academics at the Faculty of Health have earned international recognition for advancing research on identity, methodology and the foundations of psychology. The awards from the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association (APA), supports scholarship exploring theories and philosophies, including the conceptual foundations, history, ethics and methodology of the field. The third 91亚色-affiliated recipient is Benjamin Stevenson, a master鈥檚 student in the Department of Psychology.

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