Research

The Carleton University Research Achievement Awards are administered by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International). The purpose of these awards is to recognize outstanding research achievements. The awards were established in 1989 to enhance the quality of research and to recognize research excellence.

See this year’s Research Achievement Awards.

2024

Kyle Biggar, Biochemistry
Scott Bucking, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Francine Darroch, Health Sciences
Christina Gabriel, Political Science
Andrew Harris, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Abid Hussain, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Guoliang Frank Jiang, Sprott School of Business
Azar Masoumi, Sociology and Anthropology
Stéfy McKnight, Journalism and Communication
Murray Richardson, Geography and Environmental Studies

2023

Adrian Chan, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Kristin Connor, Department of Health Sciences
Steven Cooke, Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science and Department of Biology
Linda Duxbury, Sprott School of Business
Jennifer Evans, Department of History
Kelly Fritsch, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Liam O’Brien, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carlos Rossa, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Stephan Schott, School of Public Policy and Administration
Erin Tolley, Department of Political Science

2022

Mohamed Al Guindy, Sprott School of Business
John Anderson, Department of Cognitive Science
Jenny Bruin, Department of Biology
Rachel Burns, Department of Psychology
Matthew Johnson, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Heath MacMillan, Department of Biology
Ashraf Matrawy, School of Information Technology
Leila Mostaço-Guidolin, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Dipto Sarkar, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Paul Villeneuve, School of Mathematics, Department of Health Sciences, and Department of Neuroscience

2021

Prosenjit Bose, School of Computer Science
Sonia Chiasson, School of Computer Science
Cynthia Cruickshank, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Laura Horak, School for Studies in Art and Culture: Film Studies
Andrea Howard, Department of Psychology
Victoria McArthur, School of Journalism and Communication
Jeffrey Monaghan, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Isaac Otchere, Sprott School of Business
Hongyu Sun, Department of Neuroscience
Richard Yu, School of Information Technology

2020

Andy Adler, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Patricia Ballamingie, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Doris Buss, Department of Law and Legal Studies
Michael Hildebrand, Department of Neuroscience
Hashmat Khan, Department of Economics
Uma Kumar, Sprott School of Business
Hillary Maddin, Department of Earth Sciences
Johanna Peetz, Department of Psychology
Oren Petel, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Steve Ulrich, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

2019

Peter Andrée, Department of Political Science
Onita D. Basu, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Boulay, Department of Physics
Sarah Phillips Casteel, Department of English Language and Literature
Robert J. Coplan, Department of Psychology
Angela M. Dionisi, Sprott School of Business
Burak Gunay, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rowan Thomson, Department of Physics
Matthew Daniel Webb, Department of Economics
Alex Wong, Department of Biology

2018

Stephen Godfrey, Department of Physics
James Green, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Norman Hillmer, Department of History
Philip Kaisary, Department of Law and Legal Studies
Barbara Leckie, Department of English Language and Literature, and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture
Marina Milyavskaya, Department of Psychology
Luciara Nardon, Sprott School of Business
Hanika Rizo, Department of Earth Sciences
Thomas Sherratt, Department of Biology
Halim Yanikomeroglu, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering

2017

Jacques Albert, Department of Electronics
Richard Amos, Department of Environmental Science/Earth Science
Andrea Chandler, Department of Political Science
Greg Fisher, College of the Humanities
Mark Forbes, Department of Biology
Marie-Odile Junker, School of Linguistics and Language Studies
Jie Liu, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
José I. Rojas-Méndez, Sprott School of Business
William Walters, Department of Political Science/Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Michael Wohl, Department of Psychology

2016

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
William Cross, Professor, Department of Political Science
Audrey Girouard, Assistant Professor, School of Information Technology
Susanne Klausen, Associate Professor, Department of History
Peter Xiaoping Liu, Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Paul Mkandawire, Assistant Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies
John Oommen, Chancellor’s Professor, School of Computer Science
Ken Storey, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Biology and Department of Chemistry
Sujit Sur, Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business
William Willmore, Associate Professor, Institute of Biochemistry

2015

Alain Bellerive, Professor, Department of Physics
Steven Cooke, Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Science and Department of Biology
Linda Duxbury, Professor, Sprott School of Business
Jennifer Evans, Associate Professor, Department of History
Vinod Kumar, Professor, Sprott School of Business
Ronald Miller, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Liam (William) O’Brien, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Banu Örmeci, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Salber Phillips, Professor, Department of History and the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts and Culture
Monique Sénéchal, Professor, Department of Psychology

2014

Sarah Brouillette, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Jean-Guy Godin, Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Biology
Matthew Holahan, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Elyn Humphreys, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Matthew Johnson, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Stuart J. Murray, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of English Language and Literature
Margaret H. Ogilvie, Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies
Nicolas Papadopoulos, Chancellor’s Professor, Sprott School of Business
Fiona Robinson, Professor, Department of Political Science
Gabriel Wainer, Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering

2013

Craig Bennell, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Adrian Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Vida Dujović, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics
George Hadjisophocleous, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gita Ljubicic, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering
Heather Logan, Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Laura Macdonald, Professor, Department of Political Science
Daniel Panario, Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Yiagadeesen Samy, Associate Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Winnie Ye, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Electronics

2012

Amir Banihashemi,Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Frank Dehne, Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Computer Science
Dana Dragunoiu, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Randall Germain, Professor, Department of Political Science
Anatoli Ianoul, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Uma Kumar, Professor, Sprott School of Business
Thomas Kunz, Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
James Opp, Associate Professor, Department of History
Richard Yu, Associate Professor, School of Information Technology
John Zelenski, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

2011

Ingela Alger, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics
Claudio Aporta, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Maria DeRosa, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Lenore Fahrig, Professor, Department of Biology
Paul Keen, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Edgar Matida, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Steven Murphy, Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business
Michel Rod, Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business
David Rogers, Professor, Department of Physics
Paul Simms, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

2010

Frances Abele, Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration
Alfonso Abizaid, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Ramachandra Achar, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics
Christopher Burn, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Amedeo D’Angiulli, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Ashkan Golshani, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Joanna Pozzulo, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Nicola Santoro, Professor, School of Computer Science
Brett Stevens, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Qi-Jun Zhang, Professor, Department of Electronics

2009

Jacques Albert, Electronics
Hugh Armstrong, Social Work and Political Economy
Robert Coplan, Psychology
Frank Elgar, Psychology
Louise Heslop, Sprott School of Business
Xiao Huang, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Pat Morin, Computer Science
Tom Sherratt, Biology
William Walters, Political Science and Sociology/Anthropology
Halim Yanikomeroglu, Systems and Computer Engineering

2008

Andy Adler, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Donald Beecher, Department of English Language and Literature
Andrea Doucet, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
O. Burkan Isgor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lynda Khalaf, Department of Economics
Michel Nakhla, Department of Electronics
John Oommen, School of Computer Science
Isaac Otchere, Sprott School of Business
Ken Storey, Departments of Biology and Chemistry and the Institute of Biochemistry
Michael Wohl, Department of Psychology

2007

Peter X. Liu, Department of System and Computer Engineering
Shawn Hayley, Department of Psychology
William Cross, Department of Political Science
Steven J. Cooke, Institute of Environmental Science and Department of Biology
Vinod Kumar, Sprott School of Business
Jo-Anne LeFevre, Department of Psychology
Michèle Martin, School of Journalism and Communication
Pudupadi Sundararajan, Department of Chemistry
Xin Wang, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Garry Tarr, Department of Electronics

2006

Hymie Anisman, Department of Psychology
Amir Banihashemi, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Prosenjit Bose, School of Computer Science
Stephen Godfrey, Department of Physics
Junjie Gu, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Margaret Ogilvie, Department of Law
Banu Ormeci, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Phillips, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture; Department of History
Wayne Z.Y. Wang, Department of Chemistry
Zhihao Yu, Department of Economics

2005

Michael Armstrong, Sprott School of Business
Manuel Baez, School of Architecture
Michel Barbeau, School of Computer Science
Bruce Curtis, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Uma Kumar, Sprott School of Business
Kimberly Matheson, Department of Psychology
Ronald E. Miller, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Daniel Panario, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Paul Van Geel, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gabriel Wainer, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering

2004

Priscilla Walton, Department of English Language and Literature
Jack Kelly, Department of Psychology
Marie-Odile Junker, Department of French
Rafik Goubran, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Thomas Kunz, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Ramachandra Achar, Department of Electronics
Karim Karim, School of Journalism and Communication
Ramo Gencay, Department of Economics
David Sinclair, Department of Physics
Mark Forbes, Department of Biology

2003

John Clarke, Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Fred Nitzsche, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
David Lau, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Wayne Parker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Yassar Hassan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
William Walters, Department of Political Science
Michiel Smid, School of Computer Science
Ken Storey, Department of Biology/Department of Chemistry
Lenore Fahrig, Department of Biology
Thomas Sherratt, Department of Biology

2002

Jacques Chevalier, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
A. B. McKillop, Department of History
Alan Hunt, Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Department of Law
Rob Coplan, Department of Psychology
Huntley Schaller, Department of Economics
Bruce Doern, School of Public Policy and Administration
Tim Patterson, Department of Earth Sciences
Giles Santyr, Department of Physics
Stephen Godfrey, Department of Physics
John Oommen, School of Computer Science
Sivarama Dandamudi, School of Computer Science

2001

Hymie Anisman, Department of Psychology
Andrew Brook, Department of Philosophy/Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies
Bruce Pappas, Department of Psychology
Paul Keen, Department of English Language and Literature
Lionel Briand, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Q. J. Zhang, Department of Electronics
Vinod Kumar, School of Business
Prosenjit Bose, School of Computer Science
Z. Y. Wang, Department of Chemistry
Nicola Santoro, School of Computer Science

2000

Dan McIntyre, Department of Psychology
Bruce Curtis, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
James Wight, Department of Electronics
I. Lambadaris, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
J. Humar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fen Hampson, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Z. Chen, Department of Economics
David Carment, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
D. Karlen, Department of Physics
Jorg Sack, School of Computer Science

See a list of winners dating back to 1989.