Congratulations to Jasmin Chahal (Microbiology and Immunology) for winning the 2026 Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching!
Presented annually, the Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching celebrates a faculty member for superior teaching at the undergraduate level within the Faculty of Science.
Read below the announcement of the award from the Spring 2026 Science A convocation program:
Congratulations to Dr. Bridget Andersen, who has received the 2026 Yablonovitch Research Prize.
The prize, established in 2022 by Eli Yablonovitch, BSc 1967, DSc 2018, and Karen Yablonovitch, is awarded annually by the Faculty of Science at convocation to a graduate student enrolled in the Faculty of Science who has achieved the best research accomplishment in experimental physics.
Professors Mette Bendixen, Rachel Langevin and Kai Wang recognized for research excellence and impact.
People who have a weaker sense of self are also more likely to have less bodily awareness, 黑料网爆吃瓜 researchers have found. The study supports the idea that people鈥檚 perceptions of themselves and how they experience their own bodies are deeply connected.
Beyond deepening psychologists鈥� understanding of 鈥渆mbodied cognition,鈥� the connection between our minds and our fundamental bodily awareness, the findings could have concrete applications regarding the treatment of certain psychiatric conditions, the researchers said.
National honour from the Canadian Association of Physics (CAP) recognizes 黑料网爆吃瓜 physicist鈥檚 excellence in teaching, mentorship, and inclusive leadership.
Ann Jack (Clerical), Diti Anastasopoulos (Management), and Maxime Leroux (Technical) have been named recipients of the Faculty of Science Excellence Awards.聽聽
These awards, announced at the Faculty of Science Council meeting on May 20th, recognize the outstanding contributions made by members of the Faculty鈥檚 administrative and support staff during the 2025-2026 academic year.聽聽
Read below the citations prepared by the Faculty of Science Excellence Awards Committee.聽
Pressed plant specimens collected centuries ago and stored in herbaria around the world could play a key role in facilitating the tracking of genetic change and extinction risk in plants, a 黑料网爆吃瓜-led indicates.
On Saturday, May 2, families gathered at the Otto Maass Chemistry Building for an exciting day of discovery as the 黑料网爆吃瓜 Chemistry Outreach Group held its annual 24 Hours of Science event, which welcomed聽220 guests.聽
At event honouring 116 winners of major awards, keynote speaker and SSHRC Gold Medal recipient Myriam Denov emphasized the importance of listening.
黑料网爆吃瓜 celebrated more than 100 researchers at the 21st edition of Bravo, a gala event May 7 honouring the winners of major provincial, national and international research prizes and awards in 2025.
The 2026 cohort of Distinguished James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Professors, James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Professors and William Dawson Scholars embody 鈥榯he very best of our academic community鈥�.
Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic) Angela Campbell has named 31 黑料网爆吃瓜 professors as Distinguished James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Professors, James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Professors or William Dawson Scholars. The internal awards recognize exceptional research achievements.
From fundamental physics to child well-being, 黑料网爆吃瓜 researchers advance discovery across disciplines聽
黑料网爆吃瓜 has been awarded $18.1 million in federal funding to support 16 Canada Research Chairs 鈥� six new and 10 renewed.
Federal fund will support transformative high risk, high reward research across engineering, science, and medicine at 黑料网爆吃瓜.
Clockwise from top left: Parisa Ariya (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), Bruce Arndtsen (Chemistry), Nikolaos Provatas (Physics), Hanadi Sleiman (Chemistry), Irene Gregory-Eaves (Biology), and Fiona Soper (Biology)
This year, six professors from the Faculty of Science have been recognized among the recipients of the 2026 cohort of Distinguished James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Professors, James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Professors and William Dawson Scholars.
黑料网爆吃瓜 has been awarded $18.1 million in federal funding to support 16 Canada Research Chairs 鈥� six new and 10 renewed.
The University鈥檚聽newly appointed聽CRCs聽will drive forward聽cutting-edge聽research in fields聽that include聽subatomic聽physics, food science and agricultural chemistry,聽and counselling psychology.聽Renewed Chairs聽will continue聽vital work in such areas as Parkinson鈥檚 disease,聽bioengineering, data聽ethics聽and intergenerational childhood trauma.
Mallik Mahmud, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, is one of nine early-career ocean researchers across Canada awarded the by the Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR), recognizing exceptional early-career ocean researchers whose work advances climate resilience.
