AWARDS & HONOURS
Barbara Sherwood Lollar (Research Council) received the Logan Medal from the Geological Association of Canada.
Graham Taylor (Learning in Machines & Brains) has been selected as a visiting faculty member for Google.
Prerna Singh (Successful Societies) was awarded a 2018 Andrew Carnegie fellowship.
Joel Mokyr (Institutions, Organization & Growth) has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.
Victoria Kaspi (Gravity & the Extreme Universe) will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia.
Peter Hall (Successful Societies) has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Lewis Kay (Molecular Architecture of Life) was awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.
Joelle Pineau (Learning in Machines & Brains) was awarded the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship.
Lars Bildsten, Vicky Kalogera and Matias Zaldarriaga (all Gravity & the Extreme Universe) were elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Graham Taylor (Learning in Machines & Brains) will receive a new Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning Systems.
Edward Sargent (Bio-inspired Solar Energy) was renewed as a Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology.
Janet Werker (Child & Brain Development) was awarded the Killam Prize in Social Sciences.
Yong Baek Kim (Quantum Materials) received a Killam Research Fellowship.
Christopher Chang (Bio-inspired Solar Energy) was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Jeremy Knowles Award 2018.
Richard Ellis (Gravity & the Extreme Universe) has been admitted to the Australian Academy of Science.
Andrea Damascelli (Quantum Materials) was awarded the 2018 CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse Medal.
Prerna Singh (Successful Societies) was awarded a Berlin Prize Fellowship.
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