Awards & Distinctions | 2020

Hellmuth Prizes for Achievement in Research

Western's highest research honour, the Hellmuth Prizes for Achievement in Research, provide a way for all members of the Western community to appreciate and celebrate research achievement of our most distinguished faculty members in all research areas.

• Peter Jaffe | Faculty of Education
• Xueliang (Andy) Sun | Faculty Engineering

Petro-Canada Young Innovator Awards

The Petro-Canada Young Innovator Awards program provides an award to a new researcher at Western to recognize, promote and support work that is particularly innovative, impacts positively on the learning environment in their department, and has the potential to be of significance to society at large.

• Ali Khan | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Trish Tucker | Faculty of Health Sciences

The Megan J. Davey Opportunity Fund supports new faculty members at Western in experimental life science whose research explores cellular and molecular organization.

• Tyler Beveridge | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Silvia Penuela | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Bogumil Karas | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

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.

• Arghya Paul | Faculty of Engineering

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

• ​Grace Parraga | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Tier 1 CRC in Lung Imaging to Change Patient Outcomes
• Marco Prado | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Tier 1 CRC in Neurochemistry of Dementia
• Nadine Wathen | Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Tier 1 CRC in Mobilizing Knowledge on Gender-Based Violence
• Shehzad Ali | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Tier 2 CRC in Public Health Economics
• Corey Baron | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Tier 2 CRC in Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Cristián Bravo Roman | Faculty of Science, Tier 2 CRC in Banking and Insurance Analytics
• Natasha Mhatre | Faculty of Science, Tier 2 CRC in Invertebrate Neurobiology
• Alan Miller | Faculty of Law, Tier 2 CRC in Law and Economics
• Arghya Paul | Faculty of Engineering, Tier 2 CRC in Advanced Cell-instructive Materials and Biotherapeutics

Renewed Canada Research Chairs

• Fred Longstaffe | Faculty of Science, Renewed Tier 1 CRC in Stable Isotope Science
• Stanimir Metchev | Faculty of Science, Renewed Tier 2 CRC in Extrasolar Planets
• Patrick O’Donoghue | Faculty of Science, Renewed Tier 2 CRC in Chemical Biology​

The College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists, a branch of The Royal Society of Canada, is Canada’s first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership.

• Lauren Flynn | Faculty of Engineering
• Janice Forsyth | Faculty of Social Science
• Elizabeth Greene | Faculty of Arts & Humanities

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.

• Ann Chambers | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Joy MacDermid | Faculty of Health Sciences
• Ravi Menon | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
  

Funded by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, the Early Researcher Awards program gives funding to new researchers working at publicly funded Ontario research institutions to build a research team and is a discretionary, non-entitlement program that encourages applications from all disciplines.

• Ilke Heinemann | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Susan Huang | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Naveen Poonai | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Ryan Willing | Faculty of Engineering

• Visiting Fellowship: Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver and the Canadian Liver Foundation | Paul Adams, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Marcel Simon Award: International Biolron Society | Paul Adams, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Fulbright Canadian Fellowship: Fulbright Canada | Neil Banerjee, Faculty of Science
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Philadelphia Spine Society | Michele Crites Battié, Faculty of Health Sciences
• Visiting Fellowship: Global Affairs | Bipasha Baruah, Faculty of Arts & Humanities
• Visiting Fellowship: International Energy Agency | Bipasha Baruah, Faculty of Arts & Humanities
• George E. Kimball Medal: The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | Peter Bell, Ivey Business School
• Industrial Research Chair: Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council | Franco Berruti, Faculty of Engineering
• Industrial Research Chair Renewal: Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council | Cedric Briens, Faculty of Engineering
• Fellowship: Canadian Academy of Health Sciences | Jayne Garland, Faculty of Health Sciences
• Margaret Wade Labarge Prize: Canadian Society of Medievalists | James Grier, Faculty of Music
• Fellowship: American Nuclear Society | Jing Jiang, Faculty of Engineering
• Industrial Research Chair Renewal: Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council | Jing Jiang, Faculty of Engineering
• Honorary Fellow: The Royal Conservatory of Music | Leslie Kinton, Faculty of Music
• 2020 Henry Gray Scientific Award: American Association for Anatomy | Peeyush K. Lala, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Award for Military Health Research: Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health | Ruth Lanius, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Lifetime Achievement Award: 2019 Canadian Society of Transplantation | Vivian McAlister, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• 2019 Gold Medal: Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists | Terry Peters, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Stevenson Award: The Canadian Physiological Society | Andrew Pruszynski, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Fellowship: Royal Aeronautical Society | Eric Savory, Faculty of Engineering
• Order of Canada: Government of Canada | J. David Spence, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Award for Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry: Chemical Institute of Canada | Xueliang (Andy) Sun, Faculty of Engineering
• Award for Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry: Chemical Institute of Canada | Xueliang (Andy) Sun, Faculty of Engineering
• Floyd S. Chalmers Award for Ontario History: The Champlain Society | Jonathan Vance, Faculty of Social Science
• C.D. Nelson Award: The Canadian Society of Plant Biologists | Danielle Way, Faculty of Science
• Fellowship: Canadian Academy of Engineering | Charles Xu, Faculty of Engineering