Grant Recipients

To come.

NFRF Exploration - 2023 Competition

Congratulations to Florian Shkurti, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical & Computational Sciences for his successful NFRF Exploration grant titled "Monitoring Microplastics in Freshwater Across the Great Lakes via Autonomous Robot Boats" with co-principal investigator Timothy Barfoot, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies – UTIAS.

SSHRC Partnership Grant - 2023 Competition

Congratulations to Alan Walks, Professor, Department of Geography, Geomatics, and Environment; co-applicant Susannah Bunce, Associate Professor, Department of Human Geography, UTSC; and their team for their successful SSHRC Partnership Grant titled "New Housing Alternatives for a Socially-Just, Post-Covid Urban Canada."

SSHRC Insight Development Grant - 2023 Competition

Congratulations to all successful UTM applicants in the 2023 Insight Development Grant (IDG) competition!

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

The OVPRI 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.

>>Read the story here!

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 

>>Read the story here!

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."