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Fifteen doctoral students at the ºüÀêÊÓƵ have received for 2024-25.

The annual fellowships are designed to offer doctoral students the opportunity to explore the world of public scholarship. Fellows focus on engaging the public through their scholarly work – this can take a range of forms, from describing their work in a public forum to partnering with a school, community organization or cultural institution in an ongoing two-way exchange of knowledge and practices.

"The School of Graduate Studies is proud to support the creative work being done by our Connaught PhDs for Public Impact fellows as they find novel ways to engage the public with the incredible research being done at U of T," said Vina Goghari, vice-dean, research and program innovation at the School of Graduate Studies. "We are grateful for the generous support from the Connaught Fund in enabling this type of innovative scholarship, and we congratulate this new cohort of fellows as they begin work on their projects."

The 2024-25 Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellows are:

• Hanne Bartels, Institute of Medical Science, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Rhonda Boateng, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Mohammadamir (Amir) Moghaddam, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Mathew Iantorno, Faculty of Information
• Nicolas Ivanov, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Yojana Miraya Oscco, department of political science, Faculty of Arts & Science
• Kashoro Nyenyezi, department of social justice education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
• Adrian Petterson, Faculty of Information
• Paul Pritchard, department of sociology, Faculty of Arts & Science
• Jenna Quelch, department of political science, Faculty of Arts & Science
• Shivam Sharma, Faculty of Dentistry
• Mercedes Sobers, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Rhonda Solomon, department of geography, geomatics, and the environment, U of T Mississauga
• Lily Takeuchi, department of biomedical engineering, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Sarah Urquhart, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)