“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

By The Numbers

• 4 Killam Prize recipients
• 2 Canada Excellence Research Chairs
• 62 Canada Research Chairs
• 3 faculty awarded fellowships with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
• Canada’s most innovative university (23 of 23 years); Best overall (19 of 23 years); Leaders of tomorrow (16 of 23 years) (Maclean’s University Rankings)
• 70 Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
• QS Stars 5+ (highest rating for international universities) (Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings 2014)

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