SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Congratulations to all successful UTM applicants in the 2023 Insight Development Grant (IDG) competition!
- Emily Atkinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Language Studies
Project: Investigating the development of sentence processing: Incrementality and prediction - Nadège Compaoré, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Collaborator: Margaret Wall, Librarian, University of Toronto
Project: Black Internationalism in Canada: Uncovering Traces, Spaces & Faces of Black Self-Determination - Mairi Cowan, Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies
Project: "Fresh Flower of Youth": Adolescents Coming of Age in a Late Medieval Royal Court - Madeleine Mant, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Co-applicants: Sylvia Abonyi, University of Saskatchewan; Frederick Hackett, University of Saskatchewan
Project: Past in the Present: Dynevor Indian Hospital (1908-34) and Persistent Colonial Tuberculosis Legacies - Jue Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment
Collaborator: Michael Widener, Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto
Project: Environmental noise pollution and its effects on public well-being in Canada
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant
Congratulations to all successful UTM applicants in the 2022-2023 Partnership Engage Grant competition!
- Alison Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Lead applicant on "Staying Home: An International Comparison of Rent Banks as a Tool of Homeless Prevention" - Laura Derksen, Assistant Professor, Department of Management
Lead applicant on "Long Run Impacts of an Introduction to Restricted Internet in Adolescence" - Weiguo Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Co-applicant on "Active Aging with Resilience among Chinese Older Immigrants in the Post-COVID Era." Applicant led by Lixia Yang from Toronto Metropolitan University. - Cynthia Cranford, Professor, Department of Sociology
Collaborator on "Towards just care: Envisioning disability and migrant justice-informed home care in Ontario." Application led by Professor Mary Jean Hande from Trent University
Connaught Global Challenge Award
- Congratulations to Ajay Rao, Associate Professor, Historical Studies & Vice Dean, Graduate at UTM, who is a principal investigator on a successful Connaught Global Challenge Award titled "The Global Past."
Project co-leads from UTM are Jill Caskey, Professor and Chair, Department of Visual Studies; Alexandra Gillespie, Professor, Department of English and Drama & Vice-President & Principal at UTM; Maria Hupfield, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies; Ruba Kana’an, Assistant Professor & Associate Chair, Department of Visual Studies; Jessica Lockhart, Research Associate, Old Books New Science Lab; and Karen Ruffle, Professor, Department of Historical Studies.
- Congratulations to Tracey Galloway, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, who is a co-principal investigator on a successful Connaught Global Challenge Award titled "From Harvest to House: Developing a Pathway to Housing Self-sufficiency in Remote First Nations Communities."
This project is led by Sarah Haines, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering.
Connaught New Researcher Award
Congratulations to all UTM recipients of the Connaught New Researcher Award in the 2022-2023 competition!
- Marta Bryan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences
Project: The Movers and Shakers of Planetary Systems: Probing Planet Formation with Exo-Jupiters - Timothy Bryan, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Project: Checking the street: Perceptions and feelings of safety and danger in Halifax, Nova Scotia - Cassidy D’Aloia, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Project: Will marine sponges be the “winners of the Anthropocene” on tropical reefs? - Madeleine Mant, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Project: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Engaging Lessons from Epidemic Polio for Vaccine Confidence and Long COVID Management - Alex N. Nguyen Ba, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Project: Identifying disease-causing mutations through automated large-scale experiments - Alison Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Project: Rent Banks as a Tool of Eviction Prevention: A comparative study of rent banks in Canada and Europe - Frank Wendt, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Project: Gene expression in the brain and peripheral tissue as causal links between alcohol traits and their correlates
SSHRC Partnership Grant 2023
Congratulations to Kristen Bos, Assistant Professor, Department of Historical Studies, who was a co-applicant on a successful SSHRC Partnership Grant titled "IndigeLab Network (IN): Building research collectives through gendered Indigenous theories of change."
This project is led by Max Liboiron, Associate Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
NSERC Discovery Grant 2023
Congratulations to all UTM recipients of the NSERC Discovery Grant in the 2023 competition!
- Laura Brown, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment
Project: Monitoring and Modelling Canada’s Changing Arctic Lake Ice - Marta Bryan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences
Project: Exo-Jupiters: The Movers and Shakers of Planetary Systems - Mark Currie, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Project: Chromatin Structure and Epigenetic Gene Regulation - Ted Erclik, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Project: Temporal patterning of neural stem cells in the fly visual system - Claudiu Gradinaru, Professor, Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences
Project: Biological Function Emerging from Disorder and Dynamics: Proteins under a Single-Molecule Microscope - Jochen Halfar, Professor, Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences
Project: Reconstructing centuries of polar environmental and sea ice conditions using annually banded coralline algae - Yuhong He, Professor, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment
Project: Quantifying 50 years of abrupt and gradual vegetation changes across complex landscapes using multisource remote sensing - Elizabeth Johnson, Professor, Department of Psychology
Project: Decoding of continuous speech in infancy - Maciej Korzynski, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences
Project: Post-synthetically modified metal-organic frameworks for high-density information storage - Loren Martin, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Project: Unravelling the complexity of the social and physical environment in regulating nociceptive brain circuits - Ashley Monks, Professor, Department of Psychology
Project: Hormone x experience interactions in sexual differentiation of brain and behavior - Cosmin Munteanu, Associate Professor, ICCIT (now at University of Waterloo)
- Trevor Porter, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment
Project: Holocene records of seasonal climate, sea ice and wildfire activity in the northwestern Canadian Arctic - Gururaj Saileshwar, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences
Project: Automated Testing Techniques for Hardware Security and Reliability - Iva Zovkic, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Project: Untangling the mechanism of histone macroH2A1’s role in memory and hippocampal transcription
SSHRC Insight Grant 2023
Congratulations to all UTM recipients of the SSHRC Insight Grant in the 2023 competition!
- Judith Andersen, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Project: Critical Incident Command: Exploring Decision-making in Dynamic, Complex, High-Risk Scenarios - Laurel Besco, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment
Project: Achieving Legal Targets for the Plastic Crisis: Assessing Industry Norms and Expectations to Improve Legislative Outcomes - Akash Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor, Department of Management
Project: Information Content of Management Guidance Calls - Tero Karppi, Associate Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT)
Project: Platform Mars: How media technologies shape the next space race - Evonne Levy, Distinguished Professor, Department of Visual Studies
Project: The Technical Study of Bernini's Bronzes: Art History, Conservation, Material Science - Julie MacArthur, Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies
Project: Forest Rebels: the social life of forest fighters during the Mau Mau Rebellion, 1952-60 - Amy Mullin, Professor, Department of Philosophy
Project: Supporting Agency in People with Developing, Compromised or Diminished Autonomy - Shafique Virani, Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies
Project: Esoteric Interpretation (ta'wil) in Shi'i Islam - Benjamin Wolfe, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Project: Improving readability in the digital age: Optimizing variable fonts for individual readers
CIHR Project Grant - Spring 2023
Congratulations to all UTM awardees in the Spring 2023 CIHR Project Grant competition!
- Loren Martin, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
CIHR Project Grant
Project: Social control of pain circuits
- Iva Zovkic, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
CIHR Project Grant
Project: Histone variant macroH2A1 as a novel regulator of memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease
2023 UTM Mobility Network Faculty Award
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023 UTM Mobility Network Faculty Award:
- Marc Johnson, Professor, Department of Biology and the Centre for Urban Environments, will use this funding to extend his work on the impacts of roadways and traffic on key indicators of ecosystem health;
- Tara Vinodrai, Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Urban Innovation program, Institute for Management & Innovation, and David Wolfe, Professor, Department of Political Science and the Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy, will use this funding to build a foundation for collaborative work on clusters, mobility, and economic vulnerability in Canadian cities.
NFRF Research for Postpandemic Recovery
Congratulations to Shauna Brail, Director and Associate Professor, Institute for Management & Innovation and Tara Vinodrai, Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Urban Innovation program, Institute for Management & Innovation, who are co-principal investigators on a successful NFRF Research for Postpandemic Recovery grant titled "Recovery for All? Long-term Pandemic Impacts on the Employment and Health of Women and Youth."
This grant is led by Karen Chapple, Professor in the Department of Geography & Planning.
Joint EMHSeed & XSeed
Congratulations to the recipients of the Joint EMHSeed & XSeed Funding Program! Two of the co-PIs are from UTM:
- Professor Lueder Kahrs (Math and Computational Sciences) with Eric Diller (MIE) | Pose Estimation and Control of Surgical Micro-Robots with Optical Coherence Tomography
- Professor Benjamin Wolfe (Psychology) with Birsen Donmez (MIE) | Normal Blindness: Why Do Drivers Miss Other Road Users Even Though They are Looking, and What Can We Do About It?
NFRF Exploration
Congratulations to Ulrich Fekl, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences, who is a co-principal investigator on a successful 2023 NFRF Exploration grant titled "Quantum Machine Learning Advantage for Molecular Property Predictions" led by Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Professor at the University of Toronto Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
NFRF Transformation
OVPR would like to congratulate all recipients of the 2023 NFRF Transformation grant titled "CANSTOREnergy: Seasonal storage of renewable energy." The project is led by David Sinton, Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and co-led by Professors Drew Higgins (McMaster University), Heather MacLean (Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto), and Kate Neville (Political Science and School of the Environment, University of Toronto).
UTM co-applicants are Laurel Besco, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Geomatics, and Environment and Tracey Galloway, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology.
NSERC - CREATE
Congratulations to Alana Ogata, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences, who was a co-applicant on a successful 2023 NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program grant titled "Translating Cardiovascular Remote Diagnostic and Monitoring Technologies for Equitable Healthcare (CaRDM Eq)."
This project is led by Professor Azadeh Yadollahi, Senior Scientist at the KITE Research Institute and Associate Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto.
DSI-McLaughlin Centre Polygenic Risk Score Grant
Congratulations to Frank Wendt, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and to Esteban Parra, Professor, Department of Anthropology for being awarded the DSI-McLaughlin Centre Polygenic Risk Score Grant for their proposal titled “Tandem repeat aware risk scores linking major depression and hippocampus volume.”
CDHI Emerging Projects Fund
Congratulations to Ajay Rao, Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies, for being awarded a 2022-2023 Emerging Project Fund grant by the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Congratulations to the UTM 2023 Sloan Research Fellows!
- Duncan Dauvergne, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical & Computational Sciences
- Sushant Sachdeva, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical & Computational Sciences
CIHR Project Grant
Congratulations to all UTM awardees in the September 2022 CIHR Project Grant competition!
- Patrick Gunning, Professor, Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences
CIHR Project Grant
Project: Development of Selective HDAC6 Small Molecule Inhibitors for the Treatment of Brain Cancers - Loren Martin, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Bridge Grant
"Project: Social control of pain - Alex Nguyen Ba, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Priority Announcement One-Year Grant
Project: Multiplexed assay for variant interpretation in human oncogenes using a humanized yeast model - Iva Zovkic, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Priority Announcement One-Year Grant
Project: Isoform-specific roles of the histone variant macroH2A1 in memory and Alzheimer's disease
SSHRC Connection Grant
Congratulations to Karen Ruffle, Professor in UTM's Department of Historical Studies, for being awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant in the November 2022 competition for her project titled "Practices of Devotion to the Ahl-e Bait at Home and in Diaspora: Materiality, Ritual, and the Digital Senses."
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