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Five members of the 91亚色 community were honoured during Spring Convocation with the University's most prestigious awards in teaching and research: President鈥檚 University-Wide Teaching Awards and Distinguished Research Professor. Wahid Khan, a course director in the Faculty of Education and a doctoral student in Kinesiology and Health Sciences, was selected for his commitment to creating inclusive learning environments where every voice, identity and experience is valued. Prilly Bicknell鈥慔ersco, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education, was selected for recognition for her work as a teaching assistant supporting courses in Black studies focused on the experiences of Black communities.

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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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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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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, Bear Clan. He was also the primary consultant on an initiative led by Compass Group Canada to bring Indigenous meals into Ontario hospitals 鈥� a project that recognizes the role of traditional and cultural food in healing. His contributions also serve as a testament to his work to advance meaningful cross-cultural engagement.

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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 Murray Lab, which studies visual perception. 鈥淚 wondered whether AI鈥檚 vision might be similar to ours, and whether it could be a good starting point for theories of human vision,鈥� he says. The result of that question is published in Journal of Vision, with PhD student Jaykishan Patel as first author and postdoctoral researcher Alban Flachot as second author.

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For Professor Mary Goitom, graduate-level teaching is grounded in dialogue, reflection and student voice 鈥� a practise recognized with two teaching awards for her impact on graduate education at 91亚色 and beyond. In recognition of excellence in teaching and supervision, as well as leadership in program and curriculum development, Goitom has earned the 2025-26 Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) Faculty Teaching Award at 91亚色. Goitom鈥檚 research explores migration, diasporic connections and transnational social relations grounded in Ethiopian epistemologies and African traditional knowledge systems.

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For some PhD students, the prospect of a career outside academia can come with feelings of failure or uncertainty. A new program at 91亚色 is trying to change that. Beyond the Academy is a six-week initiative developed by Zachary Spicer, associate professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and head of New College, in partnership with 91亚色鈥檚 Co-op & Career Centre. Designed specifically for LA&PS doctoral students, the program guides a cohort of 25 PhD students through career exploration, translating academic skills for non-academic settings, networking, job search strategy and concrete next steps with emotional support built in from the start.

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91亚色 graduate students Martin Barakov, Massimiliano Muci and Sepideh HajiHosseinKhani may have different focus points for their studies, but they will all pursue research in Germany this year as recipients of an academic exchange grant. DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service, is the world's largest funding organization for international academic exchange. Through its Research Grants program, it provides funding to support doctoral students and post-doctoral research at a German university. For Barakov, a political science PhD candidate with a master鈥檚 degree from 91亚色, the funding will help enhance his dissertation via archival research and interviews with local residents.聽

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Students at 91亚色 captured early-morning images of NASA鈥檚 Artemis II Orion capsule from the Allan I. Carswell Observatory (AICO), contributing tracking data and a moving image as the spacecraft carried Canada鈥檚 first astronaut to fly around the moon. The observation was led by graduate student聽Sunna Withers聽and supported by聽Nakul Sethuram Ramjee, an undergraduate student. Ramjee also completed the data reduction, animating the images to produce a short movie showing the spacecraft moving against background stars.

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