Professor Mercedes T. Richards Award / en Madeline Nardin receives 2022 Professor Mercedes T. Richards Award /celebrates/madeline-nardin-receives-2022-professor-mercedes-t-richards-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Madeline Nardin receives 2022 Professor Mercedes T. Richards Award</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 class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/academic-achievement" hreflang="en">Academic Achievement</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>siddiq22</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-01-19T14:04:16-05:00" title="Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 14:04" class="datetime">Thu, 01/19/2023 - 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/students" hreflang="en">Students</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="/taxonomy/term/6875" hreflang="en">Professor Mercedes T. Richards Award</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/david-dunlap-department-astronomy-and-astrophysics" hreflang="en">David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics</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/Richards-Award-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">Bryan Gaensler, director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, presents the Professor Mercedes T. Richards Award to Madeline Nardin (supplied photo)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Ƶ student <strong>Madeline Nardin</strong> has won the inaugural <a href="https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/training/professor-mercedes-t-richards-award-for-excellence-in-summer-undergraduate-research/">Professor Mercedes T. Richards Award</a> for excellence in summer undergraduate research in astronomy.</p> <p>Named after the late renowned astronomer, professor and U of T alumna <strong>Mercedes T. Richards</strong>, the $2,000 award was created to recognize a student in the U of T summer undergraduate research program (SURP)&nbsp;in astronomy and astrophysics who has demonstrated outstanding achievement and growth in scientific research. Richards advocated for young people within the field of science, including women and other underrepresented groups.</p> <p>“I am tremendously honoured to receive the Mercedes T. Richards Award,” Nardin says. “It’s awesome to be recognized for the work I’ve done in SURP –&nbsp;that work continues to motivate me in my research.”</p> <p>Nardin, a fourth-year undergraduate student at New College specializing in astronomy and physics, worked with <strong>Keith Vanderlinde</strong>, a professor in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science's David A. Dunlap department of astronomy and&nbsp;astrophysics, to develop technologies to observe the origin and evolution of the universe and short-lived astronomical phenomena.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/astronomy-student-wins-inaugural-professor-mercedes-t-richards-award">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">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</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> Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:04:16 +0000 siddiq22 178930 at