The Office of the Provost and Vice Principal (Academic) has bestowed prestigious internal recognition awards to 27 91丝瓜视频 professors for outstanding world-class scholarship and research excellence. Five senior scholars received James 91丝瓜视频 Professor (JMP) awards, including two for a second seven-year term. Twelve tenure-track assistant or associate professors received William Dawson Scholar (WDS) awards, three for a second five-year term. Ten scholars became Distinguished James 91丝瓜视频 Professors (DJMP) 鈥� 91丝瓜视频鈥檚 highest honour 鈥� awarded to late-career scholars whose work exemplifies excellence and international leadership.
鈥�91丝瓜视频鈥檚 Distinguished Professorships are bestowed upon our researchers who display exceptional promise, uphold an extraordinary level of research and scholarly activity, and have achieved pre-eminence in their fields,鈥� said Christopher Manfredi, Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic). 鈥淚 am delighted to award DJMP, JMP and WDS awards to 27 of our most highly accomplished scholars. I extend my sincere congratulations and best wishes to all honourees.鈥�
Both the JMP and WDS awards come with an annual salary supplement and an annual research allowance not exceeding $25,000. The Distinguished James 91丝瓜视频 Professor award provides for a $10,000 academic stipend or a $15,000 research grant allowance. DJMPs are awarded to those who have held James 91丝瓜视频 Professorships for two seven-year terms while maintaining an outstanding research record, or to those who have held a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) for two seven-year terms. DJMP awardees maintain the distinction until retirement, and those granted Emeritus status retain the title.听
The 2021 JMP, WDS and DJMP cohort:
Distinguished James 91丝瓜视频 Professors 鈥� 10 honourees:
- , Department of Psychiatry
- Paul Lasko, Department of Biology
- Tho Le-Ngoc, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Gergely Lukacs, Department of Physiology
- Peter McPherson, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Luc Mongeau, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Ronald Niezen, Department of Anthropology
- Jacquetta Trasler, Departments of Pediatrics, Human Genetics, and Pharmacology & Therapeutics
- Steve Yue, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering
- Xin Zhao, Department of Animal Science
James 91丝瓜视频 Professors 鈥� 5 honourees:
- , Desautels Faculty of Management
- Warren Gross, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Satya Prakash, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Jan Seuntjens, Department of Oncology
- Jonathan Sterne, Department of Art History & Communications Studies
William Dawson Scholars 鈥� 12 honourees:
- Pouya Bashivan, Department of Physiology
- Fran莽ois Bouffard, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Ziv Gan-Or, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Hillary Kaell, Department of Anthropology
- Bassam Khoury, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology
- , Department of Physics
- Xiaonan Lu, Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry
- Robert Nason, Desautels Faculty of Management
- Lisa Overholtzer, Department of Anthropology
- Erin Strumpf, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
- Etienne Vachon- Presseau, Faculty of Dentistry
- , Department of Pediatrics