The Principal’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media was created to recognize those who go beyond their studies and research to engage with the media or the public. The department of chemistry was doubly recognized this year, as two of its members received awards.
Amm Quamruzzamam won the 2015 best Graduate Student Paper in the Canadian Sociological Association’s “Sociology of Development Research Cluster” for his paper, “Economic Growth or Good Governance: What is More Important to Reduce Poverty and Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa?”
May 2015 | Leslie L. Cheung was interviewed on CBC's C'est la Vie concerning her dissertation work. The interview was aired on May 10th, 2015.
May 2015 | Research on wage differences and sexual orientation by Sean Waite and Nicole Denier has gotten a lot of attention in the press.
April 2015 | Anahi Morales Hudon, one of our recent PHDs, was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from FQRSC. Congratulations!
April 2015 | Stephanie Nairn was awarded a FQRSC doctoral fellowship. Congratulations!
April 2015 | Congratulations to Claudia Masferrer who defended her dissertation last November 2014. Claudia will join the Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies of El Colegio de Mexico as a tenure-track assistant professor in January 2016.

