John Charles Polanyi Prize / en Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen awarded 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize in physiology and medicine /celebrates/kevin-champagne-jorgensen-awarded-2023-john-charles-polanyi-prize-physiology-and <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen awarded 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize in physiology and medicine</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-02-21T14:14:23-05:00" title="Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 14:14" class="datetime">Wed, 02/21/2024 - 14:14</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/immunology" hreflang="en">Immunology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/polanyi-prize-physiology-and-medicine" hreflang="en">Polanyi Prize in Physiology and Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2024-02/Photo---Kevin-Champagne-Jorgensen-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen (courtesy of the Council of Ontario Universities)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen</strong>, a post-doctoral fellow in the department of immunology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious&nbsp;<a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/1004205/polanyi-prizes-awarded-to-ontarios-top-researchers">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a> in physiology and medicine for 2023.</p> <p>The provincial government awards the&nbsp;Polanyi Prize annually to early-career researchers from Ontario universities. Established in 1987, the award is named in honour of John Charles Polanyi, <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor</a> Emeritus in the department of chemistry and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize.&nbsp;The winners are nominated by the deans of university graduate schools across Ontario and chosen by a selection committee organized by the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies</p> <p>A researcher in the lab of Professor <strong>Jennifer Gommerman</strong>, Champagne-Jorgensen is carrying out research that aims to develop microbe-based therapeutics to improve the health of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). There is currently no effective medication to prevent progression of MS, a chronic disease affecting approximately 90,000 Canadians and more than 2.5 million people worldwide.</p> <p>Champagne-Jorgensen’s research has found that gut microbes are important for healthy neurodevelopment and revealed a new mechanism whereby gut bacterial nanoparticles may enter the bloodstream, interacting with the brain and immune systems in both healthy and diseased states.</p> <p>He is now expanding on these findings by focusing on microbiota from MS patients to identify which microbes affect disease progression and understand the mechanisms involved.</p> <h3><a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1004206/ontario-celebrates-exceptional-innovators-with-polanyi-prize">Read more about the Polanyi Prizes</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:14:23 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 306268 at Tianyi Wang awarded 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize in economic science /celebrates/tianyi-wang-awarded-2023-john-charles-polanyi-prize-economic-science <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Tianyi Wang awarded 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize in economic science</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-02-21T14:10:27-05:00" title="Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 14:10" class="datetime">Wed, 02/21/2024 - 14:10</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-economics" hreflang="en">Department of Economics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">Polanyi Prize</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2024-02/Photo---Tianyi-Wang-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Assistant Professor Tianyi Wang (courtesy of the Council of Ontario Universities)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Tianyi Wang</strong>, an assistant professor in the department of economics in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science, has been awarded the prestigious&nbsp;<a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/1004205/polanyi-prizes-awarded-to-ontarios-top-researchers">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a> in economic science for 2023.</p> <p>The provincial government awards the&nbsp;Polanyi Prize annually to early-career researchers from Ontario universities. Established in 1987, the award is named in honour of John Charles Polanyi, <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor</a> Emeritus in the department of chemistry and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize.&nbsp;The winners are nominated by the deans of university graduate schools across Ontario and chosen by a selection committee organized by the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies</p> <p>An applied microeconomist, Wang works primarily at the intersection of political economy and economic history. His research addresses the critical analysis of press independence, political discourse, and the foundations of open dialogue in the context of historical political repression.</p> <p>It does so by examining the quantitative impact of McCarthyism on American society and democracy, particularly through studies on the Hollywood blacklist, which affected hundreds of professionals in the entertainment industry.</p> <p>Wang’s forthcoming projects investigate the effects of McCarthyism on targeted groups like the press, labor unions, and liberal politicians. For example, one project will examine how journalists were subpoenaed to testify about their political beliefs, and the impact on press independence and political discourse.</p> <h3><a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1004206/ontario-celebrates-exceptional-innovators-with-polanyi-prize">Read more about the Polanyi Prizes</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">FAS</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:10:27 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 306267 at Maya Fishbach awarded 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize in physics /celebrates/maya-fishbach-awarded-2023-john-charles-polanyi-prize-physics <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Maya Fishbach awarded 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize in physics</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-02-21T14:04:57-05:00" title="Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 14:04" class="datetime">Wed, 02/21/2024 - 14:04</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/canadian-institute-theoretical-astrophysics" hreflang="en">Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">Polanyi Prize</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2024-02/Maya-Fishback_5259-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Assistant Professor Maya Fishbach (photo by Diana Tyszko)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Maya Fishbach</strong>, an assistant professor with the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science, has been awarded the prestigious&nbsp;<a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/1004205/polanyi-prizes-awarded-to-ontarios-top-researchers">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a> for 2023.</p> <p>The provincial government awards the&nbsp;Polanyi Prize annually to early-career researchers from Ontario universities. Established in 1987, the award is named in honour of John Charles Polanyi, <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor</a> Emeritus in the department of chemistry and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize.&nbsp;The winners are nominated by the deans of university graduate schools across Ontario and chosen by a selection committee organized by the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies</p> <p>A gravitational wave astrophysicist, Fishbach studies collisions of black holes and neutron stars. Through a combination of data analysis and theoretical modeling, her research strives to explain how, where and when black holes and neutron stars form and merge. By combining gravitational wave and electromagnetic radiation observations, Fishbach is advancing knowledge on everything from stars to cosmology.</p> <p>“I’m incredibly grateful to receive this award in recognition of my past work and the future promise of gravitational-wave astrophysics,” says Fishbach, a member of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational wave collaboration and the principal investigator of the LIGO scientific collaboration group at CITA.</p> <p>“I’m especially honoured to join the inspiring cohort of past Polanyi prize recipients whom I greatly admire and for the opportunity to celebrate John Polanyi and his legacy.”</p> <h3><a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1004206/ontario-celebrates-exceptional-innovators-with-polanyi-prize">Read more about the Polanyi Prizes</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">FAS</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:04:57 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 306266 at Alana Ogata wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in chemistry /celebrates/alana-ogata-wins-2022-john-charles-polanyi-prize-chemistry <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Alana Ogata wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in chemistry</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-01-17T11:37:28-05:00" title="Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 11:37" class="datetime">Tue, 01/17/2023 - 11:37</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/mississauga" hreflang="en">Mississauga</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-chemical-and-physical-sciences" hreflang="en">Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Alana-Ogata-750.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Alana Ogata"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(photo by Nick Iwanyshyn)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Ƶ Mississauga analytical chemist <strong>Alana Ogata </strong>is one of five recipients of the prestigious&nbsp;&nbsp;2022&nbsp;John Charles Polanyi Prize, which recognizes outstanding researchers in the early stages of their career.</span></p> <p><span style="vertical-align:baseline">An assistant professor in the department of chemical and physical sciences, Ogata is developing bioanalytical technologies that can help diagnose diseases sooner and lead&nbsp;to better treatment and outcomes. This includes investigating bioinspired nanomaterials – synthetic substances that can mimic the structure, properties or functions of living matter – for medical purposes&nbsp;and developing more effective diagnostics to detect biomarkers, such as proteins, in bodily fluids. </span></p> <p><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Bioinspired nanomaterials can enhance or replace biological reagents, including antibodies and enzymes, used in conventional liquid-biopsy methods, but there are currently significant limits to their implementation. Ogata investigates the formation-structure-function of synthetic crystals that mimic the function of particular enzymes and&nbsp;aims to&nbsp;develop new enzyme-mimic bioinspired nanomaterials to help advance liquid-biopsy technologies.</span></p> <p>The <a href="https://cou.ca/resources/awards/">Polanyi Prize</a> is awarded each year to as many as five researchers from an Ontario university in the early stages of their career. Given by the Ontario Council of Universities, it is named in honour of <strong><a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-polanyi">John Polanyi</a></strong>, a <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor Emeritus</a> in the <a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-polanyi">department of chemistry</a> and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize. This year, all five prizes were awarded to faculty from U of T.</p> <h3><a href="/news/u-t-chemist-aims-improve-diagnosis-disease-one-protein-molecule-time"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Read more about Alana Ogata's work</span></a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTM</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:37:28 +0000 lanthierj 179159 at Michael Stepner wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in economic science /celebrates/michael-stepner-wins-2022-john-charles-polanyi-prize-economic-science <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Michael Stepner wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in economic science</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-01-17T11:27:20-05:00" title="Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 11:27" class="datetime">Tue, 01/17/2023 - 11:27</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-economics" hreflang="en">Department of Economics</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Photo---Michael-Stepner-750.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Michael Stepner"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p style="margin-bottom:11px"><strong>Michael Stepner</strong>, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science’s <a href="https://economics.utoronto.ca/">department of economics</a>, is the winner of the prestigious 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize for his contributions to economic science.</p> <p>The <a href="https://cou.ca/resources/awards/">Polanyi Prize</a> is awarded each year to as many as five researchers from an Ontario university in the early stages of their career. Given by the Ontario Council of Universities, it is named in honour of <strong><a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-polanyi">John Polanyi</a></strong>, a <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor Emeritus</a> in the <a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-polanyi">department of chemistry</a> and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize.</p> <p>Stepner, who is also research principal at Harvard University’s <a href="https://opportunityinsights.org/" target="_blank">Opportunity Insights</a> lab, is an expert on the relationship between health and economic inequality. By analyzing&nbsp;available data, he focuses on how public policy can improve the health and financial security of low-income populations.</p> <p>Stepner is one of three researchers from the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science recognized with the prize&nbsp;in a year in which U of T faculty took home all five awards.</p> <p>The award is special, says <strong>Melanie Woodin</strong>, dean of the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science, “because it recognizes individuals who are in the early stages of their careers, meaning we will be seeing exciting work from them for years to come.”</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/michael-stepner-wins-polanyi-prize-economic-science">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">A&amp;S</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:27:20 +0000 lanthierj 179158 at Isabella Huberman wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in literature /celebrates/isabella-huberman-wins-2022-john-charles-polanyi-prize-literature <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Isabella Huberman wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in literature </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-01-17T10:59:05-05:00" title="Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 10:59" class="datetime">Tue, 01/17/2023 - 10:59</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6886" hreflang="en">Department of French</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Photo---Isabella-Huberman-750.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong><i></i>Isabella Huberman</strong>, an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Art &amp; Science’s <a href="https://www.french.utoronto.ca/">department of French</a>, has been awarded the prestigious John Charles&nbsp;Polanyi Prize in literature for 2022.</p> <p>Huberman’s research examines the literature and visual art of Indigenous writers and artists from Manitoba and Quebec who document, contest and reimagine the implications of resource extraction projects –&nbsp;particularly hydropower.</p> <p>“Winning this award means a lot to me,” says Huberman. “I feel very honoured to have my work recognized by an interdisciplinary committee of scholars&nbsp;and, more importantly, for the study of Indigenous literatures in French to gain this recognition and receive the attention this visionary body of literature deserves.”</p> <p>The <a href="https://cou.ca/resources/awards/">Polanyi Prize</a> is awarded each year to as many as five researchers from Ontario universities in the early stages of their career. Given by the Ontario Council of Universities, it is named in honour of <strong><a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-polanyi">John Polanyi</a></strong>, a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor Emeritus </a>in the faculty’s <a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-polanyi">department of chemistry</a> and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize.</p> <p>This year, all five prizes were awarded to faculty at the Ƶ.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/indigenous-literary-studies-scholar-isabella-huberman-awarded-polanyi-prize-literature">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">A&amp;S</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:59:05 +0000 lanthierj 179157 at Joshua Speagle wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in physics /celebrates/joshua-speagle-wins-2022-john-charles-polanyi-prize-physics <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Joshua Speagle wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in physics </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-01-17T10:53:08-05:00" title="Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 10:53" class="datetime">Tue, 01/17/2023 - 10:53</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/david-dunlap-department-astronomy-astrophysics" hreflang="en">David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6885" hreflang="en">Department of Statistics</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Photo----Joshua-Speagle-750.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Joshua Speagle</strong>, an assistant professor in&nbsp;the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science’s <a href="https://www.astro.utoronto.ca/">David A. Dunlap department of astronomy and astrophysics</a> and the <a href="http://www.statistics.utoronto.ca/">department of statistical sciences</a>, has been awarded the prestigious John Charles Polanyi Prize in physics for 2022.</p> <p>“I'm honoured and humbled to receive the Polanyi Prize and hope to live up to the legacy of <strong>John Polanyi</strong> that it represents,” says Speagle. “This award highlights the incredibly exciting opportunities enabled by interdisciplinary research such as in astrostatistics and data science and reaffirms Ontario's commitment to supporting similar efforts by future young scientists.”</p> <p>Speagle is developing new statistical techniques to create a high-resolution 3-D map of the Milky Way, as well as create new machine-learning methods that will help accelerate data processing. This map will be critical in helping scientists and astronomers better visualize the galaxy and understand its past, present and future.</p> <p>The <a href="https://cou.ca/resources/awards/">Polanyi Prize</a> is awarded each year to as many as five researchers from an Ontario university in the early stages of their career. Given by the Ontario Council of Universities, it is named in honour of <a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-polanyi">John Polanyi</a>, a <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor Emeritus </a>in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-polanyi">department of chemistry</a> and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/statistical-astronomer-joshua-speagle-awarded-polanyi-prize-physics">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">A&amp;S</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:53:08 +0000 lanthierj 179156 at Kieran Quinn wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in medicine /celebrates/kieran-quinn-wins-2022-john-charles-polanyi-prize-medicine <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Kieran Quinn wins 2022 John Charles Polanyi Prize in medicine</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-01-17T10:46:55-05:00" title="Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 10:46" class="datetime">Tue, 01/17/2023 - 10:46</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Photo-1---Kieran-Quinn-750.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Physician<strong> Kieran Quinn</strong>, an assistant professor in the Ƶ’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine and a general internist and palliative care physician at the Sinai Health, has been recognized with the prestigious John Charles Polanyi Prize for medicine.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-long-covid-treatment-symptoms/">An expert on the post-COVID-19 condition, also known as “long COVID,”</a> Quinn&nbsp;seeks to improve access to health care and quality of care for patients near the end of life through <a href="http://deptmedicine.utoronto.ca/news/faces-u-t-medicine-kieran-quinn">his research</a> – with a particular focus&nbsp;on patients with heart failure and the post-COVID-19 condition.</p> <p>Named after <strong>John Polanyi</strong>, a <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor&nbsp;Emeritus</a>&nbsp;in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science's <a href="https://www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-polanyi">department of chemistry</a> and winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry, the Polanyi Prize is awarded&nbsp;by the Council of Ontario Universities to as many as five early-career researchers from Ontario universities. This year, U of T faculty comprised all five&nbsp;winners.</p> <p>“The work of these innovators serves as exceptional examples of the ground-breaking research taking place across Ontario’s postsecondary sector,” says Jill Dunlop, minister of colleges and universities. “Their efforts to investigate some of society’s most pressing issues drives progress, generates investment and creates jobs – all leading to a better future for the next generation of Ontarians.”</p> <h3><a href="https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1002643/ontario-celebrates-outstanding-researchers-with-polanyi-prize">Read more about the Polanyi Prize</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:46:55 +0000 lanthierj 179155 at Gwendolyn Eadie recognized with Polanyi Prize in Physics /celebrates/gwendolyn-eadie-recognized-polanyi-prize-physics <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Gwendolyn Eadie recognized with Polanyi Prize in Physics</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2022-01-18T15:25:59-05:00" title="Tuesday, January 18, 2022 - 15:25" class="datetime">Tue, 01/18/2022 - 15:25</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/david-dunlap-department-astronomy-astrophysics" hreflang="en">David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-statistical-sciences" hreflang="en">Department of Statistical Sciences</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/women-stem" hreflang="en">Women in STEM</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/polanyi-prize-physics" hreflang="en">Polanyi Prize in Physics</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">portrait</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Photo_Gwendolyn-Eadie-crop.jpg" width="500" height="750" alt="Gwendolyn Eadie"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><b>Gwendolyn Eadie </b>of the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science's David A. Dunlap department of astronomy and astrophysics and department of statistical sciences has won a 2021 Polanyi Prize in Physics for her work in the emerging field of astrostatistics, which is providing new insights into dark matter and its impact on galaxies.</p> <p>The prestigious John Charles Polanyi prizes are awarded in honour of <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors/">University Professor</a> <b>John Polanyi</b>, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Funded by the government of Ontario and administered by the Council of Ontario Universities, they recognize innovative researchers who are continuing postdoctoral work or have recently been appointed as faculty at an Ontario university.</p> <p>Eadie’s research aims to combine the fields of astronomy and statistics and create statistical models that can help astronomers better understand and make more accurate predictions about how dark matter is distributed in galaxies, and how it affects the formation and evolution of galaxies including our Milky Way.</p> <p>“As the first U of T faculty member to be appointed to both the departments of astronomy and statistics – and the head of Canada’s first astrostatistics research team – Gwendolyn Eadie is no stranger to blazing new trails,” says <b>Leah Cowen</b>,<b> </b>U of T’s vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives. “Her novel interdisciplinary research is poised to provide deeper insights into dark matter that will be critical to advancing our understanding of the workings of our galaxy.</p> <p>“The Ƶ congratulates Assistant Professor Eadie on this richly deserved recognition.”</p> <h3><a href="https://ontariosuniversities.ca/impact/award-winners/john-charles-polanyi-prizes-2021">Read more about the John Charles Polanyi Prizes</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:25:59 +0000 lanthierj 172029 at Dr. Mamatha Bhat recognized with John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physiology/Medicine /celebrates/dr-mamatha-bhat-recognized-john-charles-polanyi-prize-physiologymedicine <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Dr. Mamatha Bhat recognized with John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physiology/Medicine</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2020-02-04T11:20:33-05:00" title="Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 11:20" class="datetime">Tue, 02/04/2020 - 11:20</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-medicine" hreflang="en">Department of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-charles-polanyi-prize" hreflang="en">John Charles Polanyi Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/women-stem" hreflang="en">Women in STEM</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/0130MamathaBhat001087A0484.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Portrait of Dr. Mamatha Bhat"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(photo by Nick Iwanyshyn)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Dr. <strong>Mamatha Bhat</strong> has received the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physiology/Medicine&nbsp;for her research to ensure long-term health for patients who undergo liver transplants.</p> <p>Bhat is an assistant professor in the department of medicine’s division of gastroenterology and a staff hepatologist and clinician-scientist at the University Health Network’s Multi-Organ Transplant Program.&nbsp;Her lab focuses on the key complications that compromise the long-term survival of liver transplant recipients: recurrent liver cancer, fatty liver and metabolic disease. She is establishing the first translational research program worldwide dedicated to improving these post-transplant outcomes.</p> <p>“It’s a wonderful sign of support for the importance of this translational research that will provide improved long-term outcomes for our patients,” Bhat said. “That’s what means the most.”&nbsp;</p> <p>The award is named after <strong>John Polanyi</strong>, <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/">a U of T University Professor </a>of chemistry and joint winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.&nbsp;At a reception to honour the winners, Polanyi described the potential impact of Bhat’s research.</p> <p>“Papers pour out of her lab (about sixty, so far) regarding the new world of human spare-parts,” Polanyi said. “Dr. Bhat looks ahead to the time when these spare parts are themselves in need of repair by which time she will know how to repair them.”</p> <h3><a href="/news/three-u-t-researchers-win-polanyi-prize-work-astronomy-english-and-medicine">Read the<em> U of T News</em> story</a></h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:20:33 +0000 lanthierj 162285 at