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 […]
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 […]
Antara Dey has won the Mahmoud Eid Graduate Prize at the Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference 2026, held at the University of Windsor, Ontario. The Mahmoud Eid Graduate Prize is presented to the best graduate-level (Master鈥檚 or PhD) student paper submitted to the Canadian Communication Association (CCA) annual conference that focuses on media and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
When Rick Powless learned that Health Sciences North in Sudbury launched its first Indigenous hospital menu, he felt a shift happen. The third-year doctoral student at 91亚色's Faculty of Education is a Red Seal-certified Indigenous chef, an Ontario College of Teachers-certified educator and a member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Oneida Nation of the Thames, […]
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 […]
Martina Jakubchik-Paloheimo, a postdoctoral fellow in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to support an ongoing collaborative initiative to integrate Indigenous knowledge into polar bear conservation in Ontario. The funding, awarded through SSHRC鈥檚 Indigenous Capacity and Leadership in Research […]
What if AI could help scientists better understand the mysteries of how the brain allows humans to see 鈥 and be fooled by 鈥 the world around them? 鈥淭here鈥檚 a lot we don鈥檛 understand about how we see the world,鈥 says Richard Murray, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health and director of the […]