Awards & Honours

Professor Molly Shoichet, Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, has been named a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. The award marks the Queen's 60th year of reign and honours significant contributions and achievements by Canadians. Shoichet, a world-renowned researcher in the field of regenerative medicine, holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Tissue Engineering. She will receive her medal Feb. 6, 2013, at a ceremony at Roy Thompson Hall.

Professor Cindy-Lee Dennis, Department of Psychiatry & Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, and Shirley Brown Chair in Women’s Mental Health Research  at Women’s College Research Institute was awarded the Hope Inspiration Award from the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario. The award will be presented on February 9, 2013 at the association’s annual “MAD About You” gala, in recognition of Dr. Dennis’s work to improve the prevention and management of postpartum depression.

Professor Ellen Hodnett of the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, is the recipient of the Canadian Nurses Association’s (CNA) Order of Merit Award in Nursing Research. Hodnett's research focuses on rigorous evaluations of forms of care for childbearing women and also examines how the physical setting for labour affects the behaviour of women and their care providers, as well as birth outcomes.

Professor George Elliott Clarke (English), the E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian literature, has been appointed Toronto Poet Laureate by the Toronto city council.  Clarke takes over the position from Governor General’s Literary Award-winning poet Dionne Brand.  He is the fourth poet laureate of Toronto.

Professor Spyros Alexakis, Mathematics, has won the 2013 Andre-Aisenstadt Prize. The prize recognizes outstanding research achievement by a young Canadian mathematician.