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Community-Based Research Canada Awards

Details Award Name Award for Excellence in Community-Campus Research Partnership,Award for Emerging Community-Based Researcher Agency Community-Based Research Canada (CRBCanada) Value $1,000/$5,000 Deadlines Internal deadline 03-02-2026 Agency deadline 04-10-2026 Please contact your Faculty Research Office and/or a relevant Organized Research Unit for support in developing materials prior to the internal selection process deadline (March 2). Nominations […]

NSERC/CIHR USRAs & ENURAs – Summer 2024

Program Website 2022-2023 Summer USRA Conference Booklet The Faculty of Science (FSc) at 91ÑÇÉ« is inviting undergraduate students to apply for the Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) for Summer 2024. USRAs are meant to nurture your interest and fully develop your potential for a research career in the Natural Sciences and Engineering (NSE) disciplines. […]

Amro Zayed earns award for postdoctoral mentorship excellence

Congratulations to Faculty of Science Professor Amro Zayed, who was one of two faculty members honoured by the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) with the Postdoctoral Supervisor Award during an FGS council meeting on Dec. 7. The award is presented annually to a faculty member in any department and program at 91ÑÇÉ« who demonstrates exemplary […]

Professor wins Petro-Canada Emerging Innovator Award

Bill Kim, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, has received the 2023 Petro-Canada Emerging Innovator Award to support his cutting-edge biological chemistry and genome editing research program. While point mutations in DNA, caused by replication errors or environmental damage, are found in clinical samples from cancer patients, the role of most mutations in […]

Collaborative project on global climate modelling wins prestigious supercomputing award

Miles Couchman, a 91ÑÇÉ« assistant professor in applied mathematics, Faculty of Science, is part of an international research collaboration featuring a multidisciplinary network of researchers – including applied mathematicians and mechanical, civil and environmental engineers – that has been been awarded a highly competitive 2024 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment […]

Student wins inaugural Faculty of Science award

Department of Mathematics & Statistics student Yibin Zheng is the inaugural recipient of the Global Engagement Funding Award (GEFA), created by the Faculty of Science to support 91ÑÇÉ« science students who want to study or participate in academic activities abroad as part of their degree. Zheng received the award in recognition of ongoing academic […]

SSHRC Impact Awards

Details Award Name Impact Awards(see the VPRI memo for information on the internal process) Agency Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Value $50,000 or $100,000 Deadlines Internal nominations Internal nominations due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review 01-03-2025 Internal nominations due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review 01-10-2025 Internal nominations due to SIRI at avogus@yorku.ca 01-17-2025 Final nomination package Nomination […]

$4M in NSERC grants supports scientific innovation at 91ÑÇÉ«

More than 20 faculty members from 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Science were collectively awarded over $4 million in Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants to continue advancing scientific innovation. Faculty from chemistry, physics, math, biology and other departments were represented among the recipients of grants with either one- or five-year […]

Students receive summer research conference awards

At the Faculty of Science’s annual undergraduate summer research conference, students received awards in recognition of oral and poster presentations they gave on summer projects they worked on. More than 60 students from the Faculties of Science, Health, and Environmental & Urban Change attended the Faculty of Science Summer 2023 Undergraduate Research Conference to present […]

Student wins prestigious crystallographic award

Nicholas Bragagnolo, a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry’s Audette Lab at 91ÑÇÉ«, won the 2023 Etter Student Lecturer Award from the American Crystallographic Association (ACA), which represents those working in the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. The ACA houses 14 scientific interest groups (SIG), each representing […]