Awards & Honours

Prof. John Kloppenborg, Arts & Science

Prof. John Kloppenborg, Department for the Study of Religion, has been awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Lethbridge. "The University of Lethbridge  takes pride in honouring individuals who have made substantial contributions to society. Your knowledge and research into ancient Christian texts makes you a most worthy academic candidate for this honour... This prestigious award places you among a distinguished group of citizens leaving a legacy that we can all be proud of."

Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Dr. Amira Mittermaier, Arts & Science

Dr. Amira Mittermaier, Faculty of Arts & Science, has won second place in the 2011 Victor Turner Prize Competition for ethnographic writing for her book, Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination (University of California Press).

Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Dean Receives the Society of Women Engineers’ Highest Honour

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Cristina Amon recognized for outstanding contributions to the field
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Liam Mitchell
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Dean Cristina Amon

Professor Cristina Amon, dean of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, has received the 2011 Society of Women Engineers  Achievement Award, the highest award given by the Society, for her outstanding contributions to the field of engineering over more than 20 years.

Posted Friday, October 21, 2011

Dr. Amira Mittermaier, Arts & Science

Dr. Amira Mittermaier has been awarded the Chicago Folklore Prize for 2011.  First awarded in 1928 and given to the author(s) of the best book of folklore scholarship for the year, the Chicago Folklore Prize is the oldest international award recognizing excellence in folklore scholarship.  The prize is offered jointly by the American Folklore Society and the Division of Humanities of the University of Chicago.

Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Professor Paul Stevens, Department of English

Paul Stevens (Canada Research Chair in English) has been awarded the Montaigne Prize by the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (CSRS) for his essay "Literary Studies and the Turn to Religion: Milton reading Badiou".  This essay was presented at the Social Sciences and Humanities Congress in May and is to be published in a special issue of the journal Religion and Literature.

Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Professor Martin Schreiber, Faculty of Medicine

Professor Martin Schreiber, preclerkship director, Department of Medicine, is the one of the 2010-2011 recipients of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards. This Award is presented to Professor Schreiber in recognition of his outstanding performance in teaching.

Posted Monday, October 3, 2011

Dr. Daniel Drucker, Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Daniel Drucker, Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, is the recipient of the 2012 Claude Bernard Lecture/Award of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). This acknowledgement is in recognition of Dr. Drucker's leadership and outstanding contributions in the field of diabetes mellitus, and is the highest scientific achievement award of the EASD.

Posted Monday, October 3, 2011

Faculty of Medicine, Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

Dr. Vivek Goel, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Dr. Patrick Gullane, chair, Department of Otolaryngology; Dr. Amira Klip, Department of Biochemistry; Dr. Anthony Lang, Department of Medicine; Dr. Ren-Ke Li, Department of Surgery; Dr. James Rutka, chair, Department of Surgery; and Dr. Stanley Zlotkin, Department of Pediatrics, were inducted as new fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) on Sept. 16, 2011.

Posted Monday, October 3, 2011

Staff Members in Department of Family & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

The following staff members from the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine were awarded University Excellence through Innovation Awards. Elicia Ayoub, Margaret Bucknam, Natalie Gomes, Lela Sarjoo and Margaret Tang for the Candidate Review Application System and Margaret Bucknam, Lela Sarjoo and Margaret Tang for Leadership in Quality Improvement in Family Medicine.

Posted Friday, September 30, 2011

Assistant Professors Dr. Gary Bloch & Dr. Sandy Buchman, Faculty of Medicine

Assistant Professor Dr. Gary Bloch and Assistant Professor Dr. Sandy Buchman  from the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine were awarded a CFPC/ OCFP 2011 Award of Excellence from The College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Posted Friday, September 30, 2011
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