Western Research Awards

Western Research Excellence Awards

The Western Research Excellence Awards celebrate Western faculty members at all career stages for exceptional achievements in research, scholarship and/or creative activity.

Outstanding Emerging Scholar

• Taylor Schmitz (Schulich)
• Luke Stark (Information & Media Studies)

Outstanding Scholar

• Elizabeth Greene (Arts & Humanities)
• Ryan Stevenson (Social Science)

Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research

• Lisa Saksida (Schulich)
• Shannon Stewart (Education)

Western Research Chairs

Western Research Chairs support networking and relationship building in Canada and globally, including with the business community and with other non-academic stakeholder communities.

• Andrew Botterell (Law), Innovation Chair
• Tom DeFalco (Science), Advancing Research Chair
• Chris Hopkinson (Social Science), Strategic Focus Chair
• Carrie Anne Marshall (Health Sciences), Advancing Research Chair
• Kibret Mequanint (Engineering), Strategic Focus Chair
• Grace Parraga (Schulich), Leadership Chair
• Abdallah Shami (Engineering), Strategic Focus Chair
• Matt Teeter (Schulich), Leadership Chair

Wolfe-Western Fellowship

One Wolfe-Western Fellowship is awarded every five years to support exceptional scholars in the first year of their first Western appointment who demonstrates outstanding leadership and potential within their area(s) of research.

• Min Xia (Engineering)

International Awards & Distinctions

Panmure House Prize

the Panmure House Prize is an annual award for interdisciplinary research focused on innovation, finance and social and economic change.

• Tima Bansal (Ivey)

Federal and National Awards & Distinctions

Canada Research Chairs

The Canada Research Chairs Program attracts and retains some of the world’s most accomplished and promising minds. Chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

New Canada Research Chairs

• Evan Bowness (Social Science), Tier 2 CRC in Sustainability and Equity
• Robert Buchkowski (Science), Tier 2 CRC in Climate Change Ecology
• Patrick Moynihan (Schulich), Tier 2 CRC in Mechanistic Bacteriology

Renewed Canada Research Chairs

• Shehzad Ali (Schulich), Renewed Tier 2 CRC in Public Health Economics
• Corey Baron (Schulich), Renewed Tier 2 CRC in Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Cristián Bravo Roman (Science), Renewed Tier 2 CRC in Banking and Insurance Analytics
• Emma Duerden(Education), Renewed Tier 2 CRC in Neuroscience and Learning Disorders
• Elizabeth Greene (Arts & Humanities), Renewed Tier 2 CRC in Roman Archeology
• Yolanda Hedberg (Science), Renewed Tier 2 CRC in Corrosion Science
• Natasha Mhatre (Science), Renewed Tier 2 CRC in Invertebrate Neurobiology
• Grace Parraga (Schulich), Renewed Tier 1 CRC in Lung Imaging to Change Patient Outcomes
• Arghya Paul (Engineering, Science), Renewed Tier 2 CRC in Advanced Cell-instructive Materials and Biotherapeutics
• Lisa Saksida (Schulich), Renewed Tier 1 CRC in Translational Cognitive Neuroscience
• Xianbin Wang (Engineering), Renewed Tier 1 CRC in Trusted Communications and Computing
  
  

Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
celebrates Canadians whose work advances health in Canada and the world.

• Robert Hegele (Schulich)

Provincial Awards

Order of Ontario

The Order of Ontario recognizes those whose distinguished service and extraordinary achievements have helped build a stronger Ontario and Canada.

• Amanda Grzyb (Information & Media Studies)

Early Researcher Awards

The goal of the program is to improve Ontario’s ability to attract and retain the best and brightest research talent and is open to researchers in all disciplines.

• Liliana Alvarez (Health Sciences)
• Tom DeFalco (Science)
• Yalda Mohsenzadeh (Science)
• Lyle Muller (Science)

Royal Society of Canada

Fellows

Election to Fellowship in The Royal Society of Canada, Canada’s national academy, is the highest honour attained by Canadian scholars, researchers, and artists. Fellows are peer-elected as the best in their field, and thus represent the pinnacle of Canadian intellectual leadership.

• Julie Aitken-Schermer (Social Science)
• Joel Faflak (Arts & Humanities)
• Robert Hegele (Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry)
• John Meyer (Social Science)
• Juan-Luis Suárez (Social Science)
• Ying Zheng (Engineering)

College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

The members of the College are Canadians and Permanent Residents who, are less than fifteen years from the date of PhD or disciplinary equivalent and who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishment.

• Angela Roberts (Health Sciences)

Discipline-Specific Fellowships

• Daniel Ansari (Social Science), CIFAR Renewal - Child & Brain Development Program, LEAP Fellow - MIT Solve
• Jody Culham (Social Science), Society of Experimental Psychologists
• David Dozois (Schulich), Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
• Victoria Esses (Social Science), CIFAR - Research Program on Boundaries, Membership & Belonging
• Sarah Gallagher (Science), Canadian Association of Physicists
• Bissan Ghaddar (Ivey), Distinguished International Associates, Royal Academy of Engineering
• Isaac Luginaah (Social Science), Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
• Ján Mináč (Science), American Mathematical Society
• Janis Oram (Health Sciences), Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
• Rajiv Varma (Engineering), Engineering Institute of Canada

Discipline-Specific Awards & Distinctions

• Saleema Allana (Health Sciences), Emerging Leader - Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
• Daniel Ansari (Social Science), Pickering Award for Outstanding Contribution to Developmental Psychology in Canada - Pickering Centre
• Mark Biesinger (Science), 2025 Vickerman Prize - United Kingdom Surface Analysis Forum
• Julian Birkinshaw (Ivey), CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice - Strategic Management Society
• Mark Cleveland (Social Science), 2024 S. Tamer Cavusgil Award - American Marketing Assocation
• Jody Culham (Social Science), Davida Teller Award - Vision Sciences Society
• Jerzy Floryan (Engineering), Clifford N. Downing Award, Fluid Mechanics Medal - Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering 
• Samantha Gateman (Science), Early Career Prize in Analytical Electrochemistry - International Society of Electrochemistry
• Jing Jiang (Engineering), Gold Medal - Ontario Professional Engineers Awards
• Chris Kapulkin (Science), Coxeter-James Prize - Canadian Mathematical Society
• Michael Kim (Music), 2025 Dream Tree Award - Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation
• Natasha Mhatre (Science), Bob Boutilier New Investigator Award - Canadian Society of Zoologists
• James Noël (Science), Corrosion Division H.H. Uhlig Award - Electrochemical Society
• Pam McKenzie (Information & Media Studies), 2025 ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award - Association for Information Science & Technology
• TK Sham (Science), CIC Medal - Chemical Institute of Canada
• Grace Yi (Science), Gold Medal - Statistical Society of Canada
• Yang Zhao (Engineering), Bao and Zhu Innovation Award - Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering
• Ying Zheng (Engineering), Energy Systems Award - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronomy