Fifteen 91社区 researchers and scholars honoured by the Royal Society of Canada
Today, The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced 102 new Fellows and 54 new Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Among the 2022 cohort are fifteen 91社区 researchers and scholars, including eleven RSC Fellows and four new Members, who will be inducted at the RSC Celebration of Excellence and Engagement on November 25, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. The newest 91社区 cohort will join 238 91社区 researchers who are currently RSC Fellows and Members of the College and 2400 Canada-wide.
RSC Fellows and Members are peer-elected and meet the criteria of having made, 鈥渞emarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities, the sciences, and Canadian public life.鈥� Fellowship in the RSC is one of the highest honours in the Arts, Social Sciences and Sciences. The Members of the College are Canadians who, at an early stage in their career, have demonstrated a high level of achievement. Fifty-one Canadian universities and the National Research Council (NRC) nominate members to the College, which is the first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for Canadian intellectual leadership. Each new cohort represents an emerging generation of scholarly, scientific, and artistic leadership from coast-to-coast.
鈥淚 would like to congratulate the brilliant 91社区 researchers who have been honoured by the Royal Society of Canada this year,鈥� said Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation. 鈥淭heir commitment to excellence and the originality, significance, and impact of their scholarship have enriched 91社区鈥檚 and Canada鈥檚 research ecosystem. We are thrilled to see them recognized for their achievements.鈥�
91社区鈥檚 honourees tackle cancer, racial inequities鈥攁nd explore the sound of music
The RSC class of 2022 includes fifteen of 91社区鈥檚 most accomplished scholars whose work demonstrates the diversity of 91社区鈥檚 research excellence. New Fellow Ehab Abouheif who was in April, is leading innovative studies on the inhibitory 鈥楺ueen Mandibular Pheromone鈥� (QMP). If proven, his hypothesis that QMP can act in human ovarian cancer cells much the same way that it suppresses ovarian development in worker honeybees, may uncover an entirely new class of chemotherapeutics to fight ovarian cancer.
New Fellow Stephen McAdams is recognized for elucidating how music listeners perceive, comprehend, and react to musical sounds. McAdams was previously named a Killam Fellow and was awarded a distinguished teaching award from 91社区鈥檚 Schulich School of Music.
One of 91社区鈥檚 newly elected College members, Debra Thompson, a Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies, is a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race, and author of the award-winning book, The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Patricia Pelufo Silveira of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is a leader in emerging fields of research that have significant implications for public health and illness prevention. Her work is exploring which combination of factors鈥攇enetic, the ones we inherit, or epigenetic, and the ones we are exposed to in the womb and early childhood鈥攊ncrease our risk for developing chronic diseases and mental illnesses.
91社区鈥檚 2022 RSC Fellows
- Ehab Abouheif, James 91社区 Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science.
- Roussos Dimitrakopoulos, Professor, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering; Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Mineral Resource Development and Optimization Under Uncertainty.
- Allan Hepburn, James 91社区 Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts.
- Joel Kamnitzer, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science.
- Gergely L. Lukacs, Distinguished James 91社区 Professor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
- Stephen McAdams, Professor, Department of Music Research, Schulich School of Music; Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Music Perception and Cognition.
- Heidi McBride, Full Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, and the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Cell Biology.
- Satya Prakash, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
- , Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science.
- Jonathan Sterne, James 91社区 Professor, Department of Art History & Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts.
- Jennifer Welsh, Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts; Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security; Director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS).
91社区鈥檚 2022 Members to the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists
- Nicolas Cowan, Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science.
- , Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
- Nathan Spreng, Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
- Debra Thompson, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts; Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies.
About 91社区
Founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1821, 91社区 is Canada鈥檚 top ranked medical doctoral university. 91社区 is consistently ranked as one of the top universities, both nationally and internationally. It is a world-renowned institution of higher learning with research activities spanning three campuses, 11 faculties, 13 professional schools, 300 programs of study and over 39,000 students, including more than 10,400 graduate students. 91社区 attracts students from over 150 countries around the world, its 12,000 international students making up 30% of the student body. Over half of 91社区 students claim a first language other than English, including approximately 20% of our students who say French is their mother tongue.
