Awards & Recognitions
Congratulations to all of our award-winning EEB graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty.
Martin Krkošek receives NSERC’s E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship
A Canada Research Chair in population ecology, Krkošek sheds light on disease dynamics between wild and farmed salmon on Canada’s west coast. He collaborates with Indigenous communities, particularly with the Dzawada’enuxw and ‘Namgis First Nation, involving community members in his work.
“This award recognizes a collective effort of a community of students, collaborators, mentors and local peoples in the remote and unceded Kwakwakaʼwakw territory,” says Krkošek. “I am exceptionally fortunate for this village that raised me as a mathematical and field biologist.”
Krkošek’s “career and his vital research in this field are richly deserving of this support,” says Melanie Woodin, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science – a sentiment echoed by Professor Stephen Wright, who won the Steacie Fellowship in 2015 and who is now EEB chair: “This stellar achievement reflects the importance of his work for both broad ecological understanding and for fisheries management.”
CSEE President’s Award 2019 recipient: Professor Marie-Josée Fortin
Professor Marie-Josée Fortin (University of Toronto) is the 2019 recipient of the President’s Award for Research Excellence in Ecology and Evolution. The CSEE President’s Award is the highest distinction conferred […]
Postdoc Karl Grieshop awarded prestigious John Maynard Smith Prize for his work on sex-specific selection
Postdoc Karl Grieshop in the Agrawal Lab and Mattias Mannervik’s lab at Stockholm University is this year’s winner of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology’s John Maynard Smith Prize for […]
John Stinchcombe awarded title of Distinguished Professor of Ecological Genetics
John Stinchcombe has been awarded the title Distinguished Professor of Ecological Genetics, effective July 1, 2019, recognizing his outstanding research and teaching contributions at the University. John’s record in research and […]
Corey Goldman promoted to Professor, Teaching Stream
Corey Goldman has been promoted to Professor, Teaching Stream, effective July 1, 2018, recognizing his long-standing and outstanding contributions to teaching at the University.Corey has provided exemplary teaching within our […]
EEB Honours Spencer Barrett’s 40th year at the University of Toronto with “Barrett Fest”
On August 10-11, 2018, the University of Toronto held a symposium “Evolution of Plant Reproductive Systems: From Muddy Boots to Genomics” to honour Emeritus University Professor Spencer Barrett on the occasion […]
PhD Candidate Ina Anreiter recognized by the Genetics Society of America
Congratulations to PhD candidate Ina Anreiter in the Sokolowski Lab for receiving DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics from the Genetics Society of America. She is one of […]
Rachel Germain wins George Mercer Award
Rachel Germain has received the Ecological Society of America’s George Mercer Award for 2018 recognizing an outstanding, recently-published, ecological research paper by a young scientist. Rachel’s paper selected to receive this honour […]
Professors Barrett and Thompson win Teaching Award
Congratulations to James and Spencer in receiving the Ranjini (Rini) Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. This award normally goes to faculty members early in their career. When word went out […]
Congratulations to Vanessa Lundsgaard-Nielsen
Vanessa and Tzvi Aviv are the winners of the recent Syngenta AI Challenge. Their work provides a novel mathematical model addressing issues regarding performance and viability of seed varieties. Congratulations […]
Postdoc Meghan Greischar Awarded R. A. Fisher Prize
Congratulations to Postdoc Meghan Greischar for being awarded the R. A. Fisher Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. You can find her award-winning paper here.