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60 Years of Excellence in Graduate Education

The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) continues to be a tremendously exciting place to study and work. We are proud to support those who will have an integral part in Canada’s future. Graduate Studies is where the next generation of impactful careers and cutting-edge ideas are born.

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We continue to lead both in our commitment to engaged research and in the values at the core of York as a university: excellence, equity, access, sustainability, diversity and decolonization among them. These values guide the research that is conceived and created in collaboration between students and supervisors and – equally – the inclusive approach to graduate education and research that shapes that research, with an emphasis on engagement, collaboration, depth of thought, expanded conceptual horizons and broken boundaries.

Alice MacLachlan
Vice-Provost & Dean

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OUR GRADUATE COMMUNITY

PURSUE YOUR PASSION, FIND YOUR PROGRAM

York’s Faculty of Graduate Studies offers over 100 full- and part-time professional and academic degree and diploma programs to enhance your expertise and guide you toward a fulfilling career.

MSc – Management Practice

Graduate Diploma – Creative Writing

MBA – Business Administration (New Specialization in Digital Transformation)

Graduate Diploma – Foundations of Canadian Law

Graduate Diploma – Biotechnology

MBM – Biotechnology Management

Graduate Diploma – Global Metals and Minerals Management

Graduate Diploma – Health Industry Management

MBAt – Business Administration in Technology Leadership

LLM – Construction Law

PhD – Global Health

PhD – Disaster & Emergency Management

Graduate Diploma – Management

MHIA – Health Industry Administration

Graduate Diploma – Accounting Analytics

MBAN – Business Analytics

Graduate Diploma – Language & Literacy Education

MBA – Business Administration

Graduate Diploma – Culture, Communication & Leadership in Canadian Business

MAcc – Accounting

LLM – Canadian Common Law

Graduate Diploma – Comparative Literature

Graduate Diploma – World Literature

Graduate Diploma – Quantitative Methods

MBA – Business Administration (Added Global Retail Management Specialization)

Graduate Diploma – Professional Accounting

PhD – Nursing

MASc – Mechanical Engineering

MASc – Civil Engineering

MREI – Real Estate & Infrastructure

MMAI – Management in Artificial Intelligence

MPIA – Public & International Affairs (Dual Degree with Laval University)

MMgt – Management

MMKG – Marketing

MSCM – Supply Chain Management

MPIA – Public & International Affairs (Dual Degree with University of Strasbourg)

MA/MSc/PhD – Digital Media

MLCE – Leadership & Community Engagement

Graduate Diploma – Education in Urban Environments

Graduate Diploma – General Interpreting

PhD – Civil Engineering

PhD – Mechanical Engineering

MA/JD- Philosophy    

MSCM – Supply Chain Management

MMKG – Marketing

Graduate Diploma – Advanced Accounting

Graduate Diploma – Intermediate Accounting

Graduate Diploma – Law for Law Enforcement Professionals

LLM – Canadian Common Law

LLM – General Law

LLM – Tax Law

MDes – Design

MFA – Dance

MF – Finance

MScN – Nursing

MASc – Electrical and Computer Engineering

EMBA – Business Administration

MA – Development Studies

MDEM – Disaster & Emergency Management

PhD – Art History & Visual Culture

MSc – Mathematics and Statistics (Applied & Industrial)

MCI – Conference Interpreting

MA/PhD – Critical Disability Studies

IMBA – International Business Administration

MACC – Accounting

MFAC – Financial Accountability

MHRM/PhD – Human Resources Management

MPPAL – Public Policy,
Administration & Law

MPIA – Public and International Affairs

MA/PhD – Socio-Legal Studies

MA – Information Systems & Technology

PhD – Cinema & Media Studies

PhD – Dance Studies

PhD – Etudes Francophones

PhD – Kinesiology & Health Science

PhD – Linguistics & Applied Linguistics

PhD – Social Work

PhD – Visual Arts

MA/PhD – Health

MA/PhD – Humanities

MA/PhD – Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies

MA/PhD – Science & Technology Studies

MA – Cinema & Media Studies

Graduate Diploma – Curatorial Studies in Visual Culture

Graduate Diploma – Early Childhood Education

Graduate Diploma – Mathematics Education

Graduate Diploma – Postsecondary Education: Community, Culture & Policy 

Graduate Diploma -Business & the Environment

Graduate Diploma -Environmental/Sustainability Education

MA/MFSc- Kinesiology & Health Science

Nurse Practitioner (PHCNP) MScN – Nursing

Graduate Diploma – Health Psychology     

Graduate Diploma – Neuroscience      

Graduate Diploma – Advanced Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Graduate Diploma – Asian Studies

Graduate Diploma – Jewish Studies

Graduate Diploma – Value Theory & Applied Ethics      

Graduate Diploma – Nonprofit Management

Graduate Diploma – Mathematics Education

MA/PhD – Communication & Culture

PhD – Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

MA – Études francophones

MSc – Kinesiology & Health Science

PhD – Music

PhD – Environmental Studies

MA – Linguistics & Applied Linguistics

MA – Translation Studies

MA/PhD – Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies

PhD – Education: Language, Culture & Teaching

Combined Program – MBA/MFA/MA

Graduate Diploma – Democratic Administration

Graduate Diploma – German & European Studies 

Graduate Diploma – International & Security Studies

Graduate Diploma – Latin American & Caribbean Studies

Graduate Diploma – Refugee & Migration Studies

Graduate Diploma – Arts, Media and Entertainment Management

Graduate Diploma – Financial Engineering

LLM – Administrative Law

LLM – Business Law

LLM – Constitutional

LLM – Criminal Law and Procedure

LLM – Dispute Resolution

LLM – Energy and Infrastructure Law

LLM – Financial Law

LLM – Health Law

LLM – Intellectual Property Law

LLM – International Business Law

LLM – Labour Relations

LLM – Privacy & Cybersecurity Law

LLM – Securities Law

MA – Art History & Visual Culture

MEd – Education: Language, Culture & Teaching

MSc – Computer Science

PhD – Mathematics & Statistics

MSW – Social Work

PhD – Social Anthropology

MFA – Theatre

MA – Social Anthropology

MA – Music

MA – Dance

MA – Interdisciplinary Studies

MA – Film: Production and Screenwriting

MFA – Visual Arts

MFA – Film: Production and Screenwriting

MA/ MSc – Physical Education (No Kinesiology & Health Sciences)

MSc/ PhD – Geography

MA/ PhD – Social & Political Thought

PhD – Biology

PhD – Administrative Studies

PhD – Economics

PhD – Administration

MA/PhD – Psychology

MA/PhD – Philosophy

MA/PhD – Political Science

MA/PhD – History

MA/PhD – Sociology

MSc – Biology

MSc/PhD – Chemistry

MBA – Business

MA – Geography

MA – Economics

MA – Mathematics & Statistics

MA/PhD – English

MPA – Public Administration

MES – Environmental Studies

LLM/PhD – Law

MSc/PhD – Earth & Space Science

MSc/PhD – Physics & Astronomy

Joint MBA/JD, MBA/JD, MBA/MFA, MBA/MA – Business Administration

FGS BY THE NUMBERS (ANNUAL)

$11.2M

Awarded in Tri-councils +
prestigious scholarships

$75M

Given in funding dollars (inc. Fellowships & TAs)

$1.4M

Provided towards research support (inc. Academic Excellence Fund)

$10M

Created in graduate bursaries

$65.5M

Bestowed in graduate awards

MEET OUR TOP 30 ALUMNI UNDER 30

At home and abroad, graduates of York University are not only entering the workforce prepared to put their education into practice, but to enact positive, real-world change. Representing every faculty at the University, the Top 30 Alumni Under 30 are applying the education, skills and experiences they received at York to meaningful careers and community service endeavours, demonstrating a long-standing commitment to the public good.

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Bintu Alkassoum

MMAI ’22, Schulich School of Business

Artificial intelligence innovator and entrepreneur

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Khadeja Elsibai

MPPAL ’22, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Public servant and community builder

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Ketaki Gadre

MF ’21, Schulich School of Business

Author and educator

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John Lau

MES ’19, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Sustainability leader
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Sara Pishdadian

MA ’18, PhD ’23Faculty of Health

Clinician and health equity advocate 

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Sam Rockbrune

MA ’19, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Community leader and social justice advocate

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Bianca Bondi

MA ’19, Faculty of Health

Clinical researcher and child development advocate

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Victoria Canale

MSW ‘21 Faculty of Graduate Studies

Public health researcher and social worker

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Lucas DeLuca

MA ’19, Faculty of Health

Accessibility strategist and advocate

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Philip Geller

MFA ’22, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design

Theatre artist and storyteller

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Ying Gu

MES ’19, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Sustainability advisor and climate change advocate

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Shalini Iyer

MSc ’22, Faculty of Health

Scientist, STEM educator and EDI advocate

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Kate Haiyun Mossop

MLCE ’21, Faculty of Education

Community builder

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Lela Pacitti-Sander

MES ’17, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Community planner and youth worker

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Raghavender Sahdev


MSC ’18, Lassonde School of Engineering

Entrepreneur

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Alyssa Segula


MBA ’22, Schulich School of Business

Healthcare innovator

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Korina Thomas-Reynolds

MEd ’20, Faculty of Education

Educator and entrepreneur

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Iris Yusupov


MA ’18, Faculty of Health,
MBA ’22, Schulich School of Business

Clinical researcher and mental health advocate

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Suzanna Alsayed

MDEM ’20, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies / Faculty of Graduate Studies

Tech entrepreneur

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Sayjon Ariyarathnam

MPPAL ’22, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Public servant and community builder

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Elijah Bawuah

MES ’21, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change/ Faculty of Graduate Studies

EDI advocate and mentor

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Jonathan Clodman

MEd ’20, Faculty of Education/Faculty of Graduate Studies

Educator and public health advocate

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MA ’18, Faculty of Health

Health equity advocate

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Osman Naqvi

MA ’19, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Community leader and social justice advocate

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MES ’19, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change/Faculty of Graduate Studies

Environmental and EDI advocate

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Miranda Baksh

MES ’19Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

CEO and Founder, Community Climate Council

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Bo Cheng

MMAI ’20, Faculty of Science; Schulich School of Business

Data Scientist, Rogers Communications

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Nicole Doray

MES ’19, Glendon College; Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Manager, Social Impact, Innovation and Transition Leadership at Academy for Sustainable Innovation; Senior Researcher, ASI International

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Mikhaela Gray-Beerman

MED ’18, Glendon College; Faculty of Education

Anti-trafficking advocate, researcher and educator

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David (Xiaoyu) Wang

MSCM ’20, Schulich School of Business

Environmental Advisory Committee and Accessibility Advisory Committee, The Town of East Gwillimbury; Manager, Transportation and Optimization, Labatt Breweries of Canada

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AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Postdoctoral Supervisor of the Year Award

Recognition will be given to one Postdoctoral Supervisor who has demonstrated exemplary support for postdoctoral scholars at York University, exceeding general supervisory expectations. One Postdoctoral Supervisor will be honoured with the Postdoctoral Supervisor of the Year Award at the Postdoctoral Welcome Event each fall.

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2023
Alison Crosby

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2023
Amro Zayed

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2022
Sapna Sharma

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2021
Ellen Bialystok

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2020
Petros Faloutsos

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2019
John Douglas Crawford

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2019
Sean Rehaag

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2018
Laura Levin

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2017
Pat Armstrong

Faculty Teaching Award

The Faculty of Graduate Studies’ Teaching Award is bestowed annually on a member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies who has displayed substantial, significant and sustained excellence, commitment and enthusiasm to the multifaceted aspects of teaching at the graduate level at York.

Year: 2023–2024

Name: Benjamin Berger

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Law, Socio-Legal Studies

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Year: 2022-2023

Name: Anne MacLennan

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Communication & Culture, History and Interdisciplinary Studies

Anne MacLennan

Year: 2021-2022

Name: Eric Mykhalovskiy

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Socio-Legal Studies, Sociology, Health, Science and Technology Studies

Eric Mykhalovskiy

Year: 2020-2021

Name: Michele Johnson

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Education, History, Social & Political Thought, Theatre & Performance Studies

Michele Johnson

Year: 2020-2021

Name: Sandra Schecter

Program Name: Graduate Program in Education

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Year: 2019-2020

Name: Michaela Hynie

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Development Studies, Environmental Studies, Health, Interdisciplinary Studies, Kinesiology & Health Science and Psychology

Michaela Hynie

Year: 2019-2020

Name: Michael Zryd

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Communication & Culture, Film and Humanities

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Year: 2018-2019

Name: Richard Murray

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Biology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Psychology

Richard Murray

Year: 2017-2018

Name: Rebecca Pillai Riddell

Program Name: Graduate Program in Psychology

Rebecca Pillai Riddell

Year: 2016-2017

Name: Carl E. James

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, Social & Political Thought, Sociology, and Social Work

Carl James

Year: 2015-2016

Name: Nicholas Cercone

Program Name: Graduate Program in Computer Science & Engineering

Nicholas Cercone

Year: 2015-2016

Name: Celia Haig-Brown

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Education, Environmental Studies, Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies, Humanities, and Social & Political Thought

Celia Haig Brown

Year: 2014-2015

Name: Kathryn McPherson

Program Name: Graduate Programs in History and Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies

Kathryn McPherson

Year: 2013-2014

Name: Meg Luxton

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies, Social & Political Thought and Sociology

Meg Luxton

Year: 2012-2013

Name: Laurence R. Harris

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Biology, Kinesiology & Health Science and Psychology

Laurence Harris

Year: 2011-2012

Name: Joel Katz

Program Name: Graduate Program in Psychology

Joel Katz

Year: 2011-2012

Name: Paul Lovejoy

Program Name: Graduate Program in History

Paul Lovejoy

Year: 2010-2011

Name: Bettina Bradbury

Program Name: Graduate Programs in History and Women’s Studies

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Year: 2010-2011

Name: Janine Marchessault

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Communication & Culture, Film, Humanities, Social & Political Thought and Sociology

Janine Marchessault

Year: 2010-2011

Name: Ward Struthers

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Health and Psychology

Ward Struthers

Year: 2009-2010

Name: Geoffrey Reaume

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Critical Disability Studies, Environmental Studies and Health

Geoffrey Reaume

Year: 2009-2010

Name: Marc Stein

Program Name: Graduate Programs in History and Women’s Studies

Marc Stein

Year: 2008-2009

Name: Amir Asif

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Computer Science and Earth & Space Science

Amir Asif

Year: 2008-2009

Name: Norman Gledhill

Program Name: Graduate Program in Kinesiology & Health Science

Norman Gledhill

Year: 2007-2008

Name: Liora Salter

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Communication & Culture, Environmental Studies and Law

Liora Salter

Year: 2007-2008

Name: Daniel Simeoni

Program Name: Graduate Program in Translation

Year: 2006-2007

Name: David Hood

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Biology and Kinesiology & Health Science

David Hood

Year: 2006-2007

Name: Adrienne Perry

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Psychologyraduate Programs in Biology and Kinesiology & Health Science

Adrienne Perry

Year: 2005-2006

Name: Leslie Higgins

Program Name: Graduate Programs in English and Humanities

Leslie Higgins

Year: 2005-2006

Name: Stephen Weiss

Program Name: Graduate Program in Business Administration

Year: 2004-2005

Name: M. Jane Irvine

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Biology, Kinesiology & Health Science and Psychology

Jane Irvine

Year: 2004-2005

Name: Isabel M. Killoran

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Critical Disability Studies and Education

Year: 2003-2004

Name: Douglas Crawford

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Biology, Kinesiology & Health Science and Psychology

Year: 2003-2004

Name: Livy Visano

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Social & Political Thought, Social Work and Sociology

Livy Visano

Year: 2002-2003

Name: Barrie Coukell

Program Name: Graduate Program in Biology

Year: 2002-2003

Name: David Reid

Program Name: Graduate Program in Psychology

David Reid

Year: 2001-2002

Name: Barbara Godard

Program Name: Graduate Programs in English, Études françaises, Social & Political Thought and Women’s Studies

Barbara Godard

Year: 2000-2001

Name: Robert Murdie

Program Name: Graduate Program in Geography

Year: 2000-2001

Name: David Smukler

Program Name: Graduate Program in Theatre

David Smukler

Year: 1999-2000

Name: Deborah Britzman

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Education, English and Social & Political Thought

Year: 1999-2000

Name: Barbara Hanson

Program Name: Graduate Program in Sociology

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Year: 1998-1999

Name: Gary Bunch

Program Name: Graduate Program in Education

Year: 1998-1999

Name: Hiroshi Ono

Program Name: Graduate Program in Psychology

Hiroshi Ono

Year: 1997-1998

Name: Selma Odom

Program Name: Graduate Program in Dance

Year: 1996-1997

Name: Ken Little

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Communication & Culture and Social Anthropology

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Year: 1996-1997

Name: Shake Toukmanian

Program Name: Graduate Program in Psychology

Year: 1995-1996

Name: David Rennie

Program Name: Graduate Program in Psychology

Year: 1994-1995

Name: Robert Witmer

Program Name: Graduate Programs in Ethnomusicology & Musicology, Social Anthropology

Thesis and Dissertation Prizes

The Faculty of Graduate Studies will award a maximum of six (6) thesis prizes for exceptional theses defended in a given year (i.e., calendar year January 1 to December 31). Normally three (3) of these will be awarded for Master’s theses and three (3) for Doctoral dissertations.

Thesis Prizes

  • Nina Garrett, Graduate Program in Biology, “Measuring neotropical bat diversity using airborne eDNA”
  • Haider Shoaib, Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, “Performance Modeling and Optimization of Connected And Autonomous Vehicles With Reliable Wireless Connectivity”
  • Pooya Badkoobeh, Graduate Program in Film, “Based on a True Story”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Jennifer Porat, Graduate Program in Biology, RNA methyltransferases Influence Noncoding RNA Biogenesis and Function Through Catalytic-Independent Activities
  • Alison Humphrey, Graduate Program in Cinema & Media Studies, The Shadowpox Storyworld as Citizen Science Fiction:  Building Co-Immunity through Participatory Mixed-Reality Storytelling
  • Inbar Peled, Graduate Program in Law, Professionalizing Discrimination:  Legal Actors and the Struggle Against Racialized Policing in Multicultural Societies.

Thesis Prizes

  • Melodie Lao, Graduate Program in Chemistry, “Developing an Automated Nitrous Acid (HONO) Platform to Detect Emerging Pollutants in a Commercial and Domestic Environment” 
  • Abdul Basit, Graduate Program in Civil Engineering, “Impact of Climate Change on Thermal Behaviour of Pavement Structures in Ontario”   
  • Anna Waisman, Graduate Program in Psychology, “Investigating the Role of Autobiographical Memory in Postsurgical Pain Up To 1 Year after Major Surgery”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Kathleen Dogantzis, Graduate Program in Biology, Understanding the Evolutionary Origin and Ancestral Complexity of Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Populations   
  • Dylan Ludwig, Graduate Program in Philosophy, The Functional Contributions of Consciousness   
  • Sara Pishdadian, Graduate Program in Psychology, Subjective and Objective Spatial Memory and Navigation Abilities in Aging and Amnesia   

Thesis Prizes

  • Timothy Young, Graduate Program in Civil Engineering, “Semiautomated Analysis of Pedestrian Behavior and Motion for Microsimulation of Transportation Terminals”
  • Hamidreza Taleghamer, Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, “Machine Learning Strategies to Analyze Quantitative Ultrasound Multi-Parametric Images for Prediction of Therapy Response in Breast Cancer Patients”
  • Ilana Shiff, Graduate Program in Psychology, “Distress Regulation During Preschool Vaccinations:  Child and Caregiver Predictors”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Andrea Claire Durant, Graduate Program in Biology, The Physiology of Ammonia Transport in the Disease Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti:  Ammonia Transporter Localization, Function and Characterization
  • Ahmed Elkholy, Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering, Characterization of Heat Exchange for Additively Manufactured Components
  • Meredith Evans, Graduate Program in Social Anthropology,  Composing Care:  The Aesthetics and Politics of Music Therapy in the Clinic

Thesis Prizes

  • Nour Moataz Wafsy, Graduate Program in Chemistry, “Palladium-Catalyzed Functionalization of 4-Alkylpyridines: Pyridylic Dehydrogenation and Mechanistic Investigation of Pyridylic Allylation”
  • Alison Duke, Graduate Program in Film, “Promise Me”
  • Nakisa Samadi, Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering, “Active Thermography Using Cellphone Attachment Infrared Camera”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Nadejda Tsvetkov, Graduate Program in Biology, What’s really out there? Investigations into the effects of pesticides and pathogens on bee health
  • Junjie Kang, Graduate Program in Earth & Space Science, Theoretical and Experimental Investigtation of Despin Control of Massive Space Debris by Tethered Space Tug
  • Aaron Kreuter, Graduate Program in English, Playing Jewish Geography:  Diaspora, Home, Nation-State, and Zionism in Contemporary Canadian and American Jewish Fiction

Thesis Prizes

  • Leah Lynn Wright, Graduate Program in Biology, “Using Light-Level Geolocation to Investigate the Carry-over Effects of Long-Distance Migration on the Reproductive Success of Dunlin (Calidris Alpina Hudsonia)”
  • Elizabeth Jackson, Graduate Program in Film, “Biidaaban:  First Light”
  • Massimo Nardone, Graduate Program in Kinesiology & Health Science, “Comparison of Non-Invasive Peripheral Vascular Function to Invasive Measures of Coronary Function in Patients with Suspected Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Rafael Rodrigues Ferrari, Graduate Program in Biology, Systematics and Biogeography of Colletinae with Revisionary Studies of the Species of Colletes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Colletinae) from Chile and Eastern South America
  • Meghan C. Hughes, Graduate Program in Kinesiology & Health Science, Exploration of the Mitochondria as a Potential Therapeutic Target in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  • Kosuke Kato, Graduate Program in Physics & Astronomy, Precision Microwave Frequency-Offset Separated-Oscillatory-Fields Measurement of the 2^3 P_1-to-2^3 P_2 Fine-Structure in Atomic Helium

Thesis Prizes

  • Azizia Wahedi, Graduate Program in Biology, “Characterization of the Adipokinetic Hormone/Corazonin-Related Peptide Signalling System in the Mosquito, Aedes Aegyptim”
  • Daniel Debebe Negatu, Graduate Program in Film, “Tesfaye/Hope”
  • Andrew Leonard Paul, Graduate Program in Geography, “‘With the Salween Peace Park, We Can Survive as a Nation’:  Karen Environmental Relations and the Politics of an Indigenous Conservation Initiative”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Anna Veprinska, Graduate Program in English, “The Skin of Another”:  Empathetic Dissonance in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Poetry after Crisis
  • Sara Rafique, Graduate Program in Psychology, Development of Low-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Tool to Modulate Visual Disorders:  Insight from Neuroimaging
  • Guillaume Dandurand, Graduate Program in Social Anthropology, The Techno-Politics of Food Security in New Delhi:  The Re-Materialization of the Ration Card

Thesis Prizes

  • Julia Gauberg, Graduate Program in Biology, “The Barrier Properties of the Skin of Aquatic and Semi-Aquatic Vertebrates”
  • Lesley Chan, Graduate Program in Film, “The Urge to Run a Lap”
  • Lana Forman, Graduate Program in Music, “The Positivistic Mysticism of Alexander Scriabin:  An Analysis of the Three Études, Op. 65”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Manfred Becker, Graduate Program in Communication & Culture, The Frankenbite: Ethics and Reality in the Post-Production of Factual Programming
  • Brock Harpur, Graduate Program in Biology, Population Genomics Approaches to Understanding the Genetics and Evolution of Social Insects
  • Bryan Nelson, Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought, Democracy Against: The Antimonies of Politics

Thesis Prizes

  • Muhammad Salman Chaudhry, Graduate Program in Earth & Space Science, “On the Characterization of Engineered Elastomers At High Strain Rates“
  • Karam Al Masri, Graduate Program in Film, “Juha the Whale“
  • Kathryn Hardill, Graduate Program in Nursing, “That Look That Makes You Not Really Want to Be There: Health Care Experiences of People Who Use Illicit Opioids in Small Urban and Rural Communities – A Critical Social Theory Analysis“

Dissertation Prizes

  • Dennis Kolosov, Graduate Program in Biology, The Role of Tight Junction Proteins in Regulating Epithelial Permeability in Fishes
  • Melissa Dalgleish, Graduate Program in English, ‘Her Constellated Mind: Jay Macpherson’s Modernism and the Canadian Mythopoeic Turn
  • Angus Gavin Grant, Graduate Program in Law, Confronting (In) Security: Forging Legitimate Approaches to Security and Exclusion in Migration Law
  • Paul Christopher Gray, Graduate Program in Political Science, The Tragedy of Marx and Justice: A Critique of Marx’s Failed Attempt to Dispense with Principles of Justice

Thesis Prizes

  • Vladimir Paskaljevic, Graduate Program in Film, “Absence is Present”
  • Dana Phillips, Graduate Program in Law, “Let’s Talk About Sexual Assault: A Feminist Exploration of the Relationship Between Legal and Experiential Discourses”
  • Gabrielle LaFortune, Graduate Program in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, “A Qualitative Study of Anti-Feminist Discursive Strategies in Online Comment Sections”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Douglas Hunter, Graduate Program in History, Stone of Power: Dighton Rock, Colonization and the Erasure of an Indigenous Past
  • Daniel Fitzakerley, Graduate Program in Physics & Astronomy, Antihydrogen Via Two-Stage Charge Exchange 
  • David Moffette, Graduate Program in Sociology, Governing Irregular Migration Logics and Practices in Spanish Immigration Policy 

Thesis Prizes

  • Gabriela Krivdova Biology, “Inhibition of HIV-1 Vif by Pokeweed Antiviral Protein and its Impact on Cellular Immune Defense”
  • Diana Resetca, Chemistry, Characterizing Protein Dynamics of Protein-Ligand Interactions by Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry
  • Savitri Gordian, Law, “Contesting Risk, Precaution and Legitimacy:  A Case Study of Lafarge”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Serene Wong, Graduate Program in Computer Science & Engineering, Exploiting Structure Information for Network Dissimilarity Characterization — Application to Disease Network Analysis and Treatment Prediction
  • David Coodin, Graduate Program in English, A Sudden, Inexplicable Onrush of Affectionate Feeling’:  Subjectivity Beyond Limit in Cather, Larsen, Fitzgerald, and Woolf
  • Marc Champagne, Graduate Program in Philosophy, The Semiotic Mind:  A Fundamental Theory of Consciousness

Thesis Prizes

  • Michelle Bobala, Graduate Program in Development Studies, “Empowering Women and Promoting Gender Equality?  The Relevance of MDG3 in the Context of Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Jennifer Dysart, Graduate Program in Film/Cinema & Media Studies, “Kewekapawetan:  Return After the Flood”
  • Sue Patrick Breit, Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, “The Phenomenology of a Simple Song:  Expression, Creativity, and the Recovery of Aesthetics”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Amanda Paxton, All or Nothing:  Sado-Erotics and Subjectivity in Victorian Religious Poetry, Graduate Program in English
  • Jacqueline Beaudry, An Examination of the Development of Rapid-onset Diabetes Induced by Elevated Exogenous Glucocortoids and a High-fat Diet in Young Sprague Dawley Rats, Graduate Program in Kinesiology & Health Science
  • Rory B.B. Lucyshyn-Wright, Riesz-Schwartz Extensive Quantities and Vector-Valued Integration in Closed Categories, Graduate Program in Mathematics & Statistics
  • Karine Côté-Boucher, The Micro-Politics of Border Control:  Internal Struggles at Canada Customs, Graduate Program in Sociology

Thesis Prizes

  • C. Stanley, Graduate Program in Biology, “The Nonbreeding Season of Wood Thrush (Hylocichla Mustelina): Examining the Winter Ecology, Migration Ecology and Migratory Connectivity of a Neotropical Migratory Songbird”
  • A. Gianfranco, Graduate Program in Kinesiology & Health Science, “Investigating high-dose vitamin D3 supplementation in the transgenic G93A mouse model of amyotropic lateral sclerosis”
  • C. Wloka, Graduate Program in Computer Science & Engineering, “Integrating Overt and Covert Attention Using Peripheral and Central Processing Streams”

Dissertation Prizes

  • B.L. Nicholson, Graduate Program in Biology, Molecular Analysis of Tombusvirus Cap-Independent Translation
  • N. Spunt, Graduate Program in English, Figuring Consumption: Reading Economics of Disease, Desire and Consumerism in nineteenth-and Early Twentieth Century Literature
  • H. Marsh, Graduate Program in Psychology, Apes in the Information Age: An Investigation of Information Management by Orangutans

Thesis Prizes

  • Phuong Bui, Graduate Program in Biology, “Tight Junctions in ‘Reconstructed’ Gill Epithelia Derived from the Puffer Fish Tetraodon Nigroviridis Marion de Procé, 1822”
  • Annie Veilleux, Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, “Knowing Landscape: Living, Discussing and Imagining the Toronto Carrying Place”
  • Jacinta Reddigan, Graduate Program in Kinesiology & Health Science, “Associations between Metabolic Risk Factors, Physical Activity and Mortality Risk” 

Dissertation Prizes

  • Keith Barney, Graduate Program in Geography, Grounding Global Forest Economies: Resource Governance and Commodity Power in Rural Laos
  • Helen Chasiotis, Graduate Program in Biology, The Role of Occludin Tight Junction Protein in Freshwater Telost Fish Osmoregulation
  • Dr. Mandeep Pinky Ghaidu, Graduate Program in Kinesiology & Health Science, The Role of AMP-Kinase in Regulating and Remodelling Adipocyte Metabolism

Thesis Prizes

  • Stephanie Lombardo, Graduate Program in Chemistry, “The Development of Solution and Surface Associated Protein Nanotubes for Applications in Bionanotechnology”
  • Chelsea McMullan, Graduate Program in Film, “Deadman”
  • Xin Zhang, Graduate Program in Computer Science & Engineering, “Measuring Process of Model Checking Randomized Algorithms”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Sadat Reza, Graduate Program in Economics, Essays on Econometric Analysis of Strike Duration Data
  • Jordana Greenblatt, Graduate Program in English, Word Like That: Reading, Writing and Sadomasochism
  • Christopher Holman, Graduate Program in Political Science, Politics as Performance: Toward a Non-Identitarian Model of Political Action

Thesis Prizes

  • Jennifer Petruniak, Graduate Program in Biology, “Analysis of Bythotrephes longimanus Spatial Dynamics in Harp Lake, Ontario”
  • Giulia Uguccioni, Graduate Program in Kinesiology & Health Science, “The Importance of PGC-a in contractile activity-induced mitochondria adaptions”
  • Claire Wynveen, Graduate Program in Theatre, “Smashing the Psychoanalysis Dam:  Exploring Fear and Release in The Betwitched

Dissertation Prizes

  • Jason John Gibbs, Graduate Program in Biology, “Revision of the Metallic Species of Dialectus in Canada (Hymenoptera:  Apoidea: Halictidae:  Lasioglossum
  • Bernd Schulze, Graduate Program in Mathematics & Statistics, “Combinatorial and Geometric Rigidity with Symmetry Constraints”
  • Lisa Cooke, Graduate Program in Social Anthropology, “North to Yukon:  (Beyond) the Frontier in Canadian National-Cultural Imaginaries”

Thesis Prizes

  • Francisca Duran, Graduate Program in Film, “Mr. Edisons’s Ear”
  • Mandeep Gaidhu, Graduate Program in Kinesiology & Health Science, “The Regulation of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism by AMP-activated Protein Kinase in Isolated Rat Adipoycytes”
  • Tia Dafnos, Graduate Program in Sociology, “Policing Ethnicity: A Critical Analysis of the use of Ethnic Identifiers in the Policing of Organized Crime in Canada”

Dissertation Prizes

  • Jamie Kwan, Graduate Program in Biology, Sterile Alpha Motif Domain Structures And Protein Partnerships
  • Colette A Granger, Graduate Program in Education, Silent Moments: A Psychoanalytic Autoethnography of Learning and Teaching
  • Ye Sun, Graduate Program in Mathematics & Statistics, Higher Order Likelihood Inference for a General Statistical Model

Thesis/Dissertation Prizes

  • Lee Anne Waldorf, Master Candidate, Programme in Law: “Beyond the Discursive Horizon: Challenging the Limits of Post-Structuralist Feminist Legal Theory”
  • Andrew Bartlett, Doctoral Candidate, Programme in English: Violence and Inheritance: Birth Secrets in Four Eighteenth-Century English Novels.
  • Jose Brandao, Doctoral Candidate, Programme in History: ‘Your Frye Shall Burn No More’: Iroquois Policy Towards New France and Her Native Allies to 1701.

Thesis Prizes

  • Mark Vicari, “The Grazing Ecology of Red Fescue, Festuca rubra, on St. Kilda,” Graduate Programme in Biology
  • Priscilla Costello, “Gnosticism Then and Now: From the First Centuries A.D. to the Psychology of C.G. Jung,” Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Stephen Foster, “Behind a Sheet of Glass,” Graduate Programme in Visual Arts

Dissertation Prizes

  • Richard John Reiner, A Framework for Theories of Bounded Rationality, Graduate Programme in Philosophy
  • Xianhua Jiang, Wobble-Nutation Modes of the Earth, Graduate Programme in Physics & Astronomy
  • Rae Anderson, The Corset of Compromise: Negotiating Social and Spatial Boundaries in Two Artist’s Housing Cooperatives in Toronto, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS)

The Vanier CGS program aims to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by supporting students who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, engineering, and health.

Name: Grace Ann Bischof

Program: Physics & Astronomy

Project: Characterizing Inter-Crater Dust Dynamics in Gale Crater, Mars in Preparation of Human Exploration.

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Name: Roberta Da Silva Medina

Program: Socio-Legal Studies

Project: Vertical Surveillance: Urban Police Use of Drone Technology in Brazil and Canada.

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Name: Joshua Marcus Harris Fountain Lamers

Program: Law

Project: The Golden Ticket? Black Adoptees, Transracial Adoption and Rethinking Legal Adoption.

Name: Romeo Joe Linao Quintero

Program: Geography

Project: Building Liveable Futures in Camps: Everyday Placemaking Practices of Internally Displaced Women in the Southern Philippines.

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Name: Areej Alshammiry

Program: Sociology

Name: Jordan Lynne Marissa Krywonos

Program: Physics & Astronomy

Name: Marissa Anne Magneson

Program: Education

Name: Austin Martins-Robalino

Program: Civil Engineering

Name: Greg Levi Procknow

Program: Critical Disability Studies

Name: Cole Ernest Swanson

Program: Environmental Studies

Name: Anna Waisman

Program: Clinical Psychology

Name: Katherine Barron

Program: Education: Languages, Culture & Teaching

Name: Toby Anne Finlay

Program: Sociology

Name: Sarah Grace Grothaus

Program: Computational Arts / Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Name: Deanne Michelle Sowter

Program: Law

Name: Alyssia Dawn Wilson

Program: Clinical Developmental Psychology

Name: Debbie Renee Ebanks Schlums

Program: Cinema and Media Studies

Name: Maureen Achieng Owino

Program: Environmental Studies

Name: Laura Marie Keane

Program: Mathematics & Statistics

Name: Balikisu Osman

Program: Environmental Studies

Name: Rajat Nayyar

Program: Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies

Name: Cameron Michael Butler

Program: Social Anthropology

Name: Heather Anne Bergen

Program: Social Work

Name: Shraddha Chatterjee

Program: Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies

Name: Nadha Hassen

Program: Environmental Studies

Name: Inbar Peled

Program: Law

Name: Okechukwu Emmanuel Effoduh

Program: Law

Name: Rivka Ruth Green

Program: Psychology

Name: Natasha Lorraine Henry-Dixon

Program: History

Name: Hannah Charlotte Rackow

Program: Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies

Name: Susan Anne Bell Chiblow

Program: Environmental Studies

Name: Leigha April Comer

Program: Sociology

Name: Claudia Francesca Sicondolfo

Program: Cinema & Media Studies

Name: Erica Lee Tatham

Program: Psychology

Name: Tyrone Christopher Hall

Program: Communication & Culture

Name: Elan Taylor Marchinko

Program: Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies

Name: Kam Jyhming Phung

Program: Administration

Name: Syrus Ware

Program: Environmental Studies

Name: Alison Dudley Humphrey

Program: Cinema & Media Studies

Name: Jesse Adrian Thistle

Program: History

Name: Zachary Agele Lomo

Program: Law

Name: Dessi Petrova Zaharieva

Program: Kinesiology & Health Science

Name: Samantha R. Fashler

Program: Psychology

Name: Christopher Vanden Berg

Program: Political Science

Name: Jolin Joseph

Program: Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies

Name: Noa Rachel Nahmias

Program: History

Name: Kyo Iona Maclear

Program: Education

Name: Alexandra Eileen Terrana

Program: Physics & Astronomy

Name: Vanessa Fleet

Program: Art History & Visual Culture

Name: Oded Haas

Program: Environmental Studies

Name: Douglas William Hunter

Program: History

Name: Bretton Fosbrook

Program: Science & Technology Studies

Name: Juha Pekka Mikkonen

Program: Health

Name: Samantha Akemi Yamada

Program: Psychology

Name: Kaley Maureen Roosen

Program: Psychology

Name: Pierre-Yann Dube Dolbec

Program: Administration

Name: Gorcin Dizdar

Program: Humanities

Name: Yasin Kaya

Program: Political Science

Name: Isaac Levi Osuoka

Program: Environmental Studies

Name: James Daniel Trepanier

Program: History

Name: Tania Hernandez Cervantes

Program: Environmental Studies

Name: Healy Frances Johanna Thompson

Program: Women’s Studies

Name: Lisa Angela Romano-Dwyer

Program: Education

Name: Kristine Lynn Fitzgerald

Program: Psychology

Name: Danielle Silvie Oiming Kwan-Lafond

Program: Sociology

Name: Dilys Elizabeth Haner

Program: Psychology


Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition

The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the country’s economic, social and research-based growth.

Name: Saba Asaad

Department: Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Project: Over-the-Air Federated Learning via Benchmark Wireless Network

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Name: Stephen Melly

Department: Department of Mechanical Engineering

Project: Development of the computational constitutive model for super-soft 4D bioprinted materials

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Name: Lynn Yu Ling Ng

Department: Department of Politics, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Project: Care for All is Care that Pulls Us Through

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Name: Chiara Camponeschi

Department: Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research

Project: Turning Moments of Crisis into Moments of Care: An Integrative Approach to Climate Resilience and Planetary Health

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Name: Ashlee Christoffersen

Department: Department of Politics

Project: Operationalizing Intersectionality: Equality policy and NGOs

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Name: Mohammad Naderi

Department: Biology

Project: Deciphering the role of environmental contaminants, bisphenol A and bisphenol S, in the pathogenesis of autism spectrum disorder using zebrafish as a model system

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Name: Vasily Panferov

Department: Chemistry

Project: Innovative Point-of-Care Monitoring of Inflammatory Biomarkers for Early-Stage Diagnosis of Sepsis

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Name: Melchisedek Chetima

Department: History

Project: Boko Haram’s Grand-Fathers: Slave-Raiding, Kidnapping and Weaponized Social Mobility in the Chad Basin Borderland

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Name: Kate Turner

Department: Social Science

Project: A New Generation of Geographical Indications in the Americas? Mobilizing Biocultural Heritage for Self-determined Community Development

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Name: Salman Hussain

Department: Social Science & Anthopology

Project: Hijra Human Rights and Legal Recognition in Pakistan: Gender Justice, ‘Third Gender’ and Embodied Identity

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Name: Sylvie Bodineau

Department: Social Science/Law & Society

Project: Fifteen years after. The everyday social life of ex- child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Name: Heather Fitzsimmons Frey

Department: Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies

Project: Rehearsing Revolutions: Girls, Amateur Theatre, and Encounters Between 19th and 21st Century Girls

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Name: Richard Last

Department: Humanities, History

Project: The Occupational and Neighbourhood Settings of Early Christianity

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Name: Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) Luka

Faculty: School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design

Project: From creative citizenship to globally networked cultural collaborations: Imagining culture, identity and creative work today.

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Name: Heath MacMillan

Department: Biology

Project: MacMillan’s research integrates observations at the subcellular, cellular, tissue, organ and whole animal levels to explain the critical differences in animal physiology that can mean life or death in the cold.

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Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Black & Indigenous Scholars

The Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black and Indigenous Scholars program was created to address the under-representation of Black and Indigenous scholars in many disciplines, fields of research, and associated careers. One fellowship for a scholar identifying as Black and one for a scholar identifying as Indigenous are typically given in an academic year.

Name: Doug Anderson

Department: Education

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Name: Jean de Dieu Uwisengeyimana

Department: Biomedical Engineering

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Name: Sylvester Aboagye

Department: Electrical Engineering

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Name: Landing Badji

Department: Ecology and Ecosystem Management

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Name: Leora Gansworth

Department: Critical Human Geography

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Name: Graeme Reed

Department: Rural Studies

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Name: Godwin Dzah

Department: Law

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Name: Don Davies

Department: Biology

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Name: De-Lawrence Lamptey

Department: Critical Disability Studies

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Name: Ruth Murambadoro

Department: Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies

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FGS 60th Anniversary Award

This newly-established award will be given to 6 part-time BIPOC scholars who are making excellent academic progress and demonstrate financial need. This award represents FGS’ commitment to both DEDI and Access for All, in acknowledgement of the barriers facing many scholars who balance advanced study with other commitments and caregiving.