recognized excellence

What’s happening here in Waterloo is truly special, from theory to experiment and beyond.

STEPHEN HAWKING, theoretical physicist, speaking at the opening of the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre

2014 Awards include:

  • Dmitry Abanin
    Sloan Research Fellowship
  • Houssein Abouee Mehrizi
    Canada Research Chair II: Health Care Operations Management, CIHR Award
  • Bovas Abraham
    Shewhart Medal
  • Rania Al-Hammoud
    Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student
  • Nathaniel Barr
    Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student
  • Nandita Basu
    Early Researcher Award
  • Drew Bennett
    Polanyi Prize
  • Raouf Boutaba
    McNaughton Medal
  • Jack Callaghan
    Canadian Society for Biomechanics Career Award
  • Murchison Callender
    MICA Award for Excellence
  • Melanie Campbell
    CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics
  • Cora Cluett
    Named to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
  • Martin Cooke
    Angus Reid Practitioners/Applied Sociology Award
  • Rob de Loë
    Great Lakes Water Quality Board Appointment
  • Brian Dixon
    Synergy Award for Innovation (Small- and Medium-Sized Companies), NSERC; and Partners in Research National Award
  • Sherry Dupuis
    Canadian Women Changing Healthcare Award
  • Chris Eliasmith
    Named to The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada
  • Ehab El-Saadany
    Canada Research Chair II: Smart Energy Distribution System, NSERC
  • Desmond Fonn
    Donald R. Korb Award for Excellence
  • Adrian Gerlich
    NSERC/TransCanada Industrial Research Chair
  • Kelly Grindrod
    Wellspring Leadership Award, Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy
  • Ralph C.G. Haas
    Roy W. Crum Award in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in Transportation Research
  • Chris Hadfield
    Officer of the Order of Canada
  • David Hammond
    Applied Public Health Chair, Canadian Institutes of Health Research; and William E. Rawls Prize, Canadian Cancer Society
  • Peisong Han
    David. P. Byar Young Investigator Award
  • John Hirdes
    Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
  • John Honek
    Bernard Belleau Award, Canadian Society of Chemistry
  • Lyndon Jones
    Glenn A. Fry Lecture Award; and Donald Korb Award
  • Mohamed Kamel
    Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Mike Lazaridis
    Fellow of the Royal Society (London)
  • Scott Leatherdale
    Applied Public Health Chair, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • Brenda Lee
    Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student
  • Ondrej Lhotak
    Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award
  • Juewen Liu
    Fred Beamish Award, Canadian Society for Chemistry
  • Matteo Mariantoni
    Early Researcher Award
  • Eduardo Martin-Martinez
    Polanyi Prize
  • Kenneth McLaughlin
    Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award
  • John McPhee
    Canada Research Chair I: Biomechatronic System Dynamics; Synergy Award for Innovation (Two or More Companies), NSERC
  • Kashif Memon
    Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty of Science
  • Steven Mock
    Early Researcher Award
  • Marina Mourtzakis
    Early Researcher Award
  • Sriram Narasimhan
    Canada Research Chair II: Smart Infrastructure, NSERC
  • Linda Nazar
    Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
  • Carolyn Ren
    Canada Research Chair II: Chair in Droplet Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technology, NSERC
  • Evan Risko
    Canada Research Chair II: Embodied and Embedded Cognition, NSERC
  • Jennifer Roberts-Smith
    Early Researcher Award
  • Susan Roy
    Early Researcher Award
  • Adel Sedra
    Order of Ontario
  • Anindya Sen
    Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts
  • Jake Thiessen
    Pillar of Pharmacy Award, Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy
  • Susan Tighe
    Named to The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada
  • Levent Tuncel
    Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty of Mathematics
  • Matt van der Meer
    Early Researcher Award
  • Christina Vester
    Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts
  • Zhou Wang
    E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, NSERC
  • Christopher Wilson
    Early Researcher Award
  • Tracey Winton
    Creative Achievement Award
  • Alexander Wong
    Canada Research Chair II: Medical Imaging Systems, NSERC
  • En-Hui Yang
    Professional Achievement Award
  • John Yeow
    Canada Research Chair II: Micro and Nano-devices, NSERC