Past Winners
University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research
Past winners
| 2022-23 | Mamadou Fall, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Delphine Nakache, French Common Law Section, Faculty of Law |
| 2021-22 | Glen Kenny, School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences and Ruth Kane, Faculty of Education |
| 2020-21 | Dawn Stacey, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences and Jeremy Grimshaw, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine |
| 2019-20 | Sanni Yaya, School of International Development and Global Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Barbara Vanderhyden, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine |
| 2018-19 | Elisa Romano, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Robert W. Boyd, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science |
| 2017-18 | Lori Beaman, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Jianping Yao, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Faculty of Engineering |
| 2016-17 | Ivy Bourgeault, Telfer School of Management |
| 2015-16 | Tracy Vaillancourt, Faculty of Education |
| 2014-15 | Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Faculty of Engineering and Teresa Scassa, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law |
| 2013-14 | Azzedine Boukerche, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Faculty of Engineering and George A. Wells, Department of Epidemiology & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine |
| 2012-13 | David Sankoff, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, “Tel fleurit aujourd’hui/Qui jadis fleurissait: Mathematical genomics and Darwin’s abominable mystery” |
| 2011-12 | France Martineau, Département de Français, Faculté des arts “Dialogues d’Amérique” |
| 2010-11 | 2010-11 Paul Corkhum, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science “Catching Electrons” |
| 2009-10 | Katherine Lippel, Section Droit civil, Faculté de droit « Les problèmes de santé mentale reliés au travail : public policy on prevention, compensation and return to work » |
| 2008-09 | Ivan Stojmenovic, SITE, Faculty of Engineering « Journey Through Applied Algorithms » |
| 2007-08 | Hussein Mouftah, SITE, Faculty of Engineering « Wireless Sensor Networks in the e-Society » |
| 2006-07 | Nancy Edwards, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences « What makes community health interventions work? » |
| 2005-06 | Constance Backhouse, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law « Rape in the House of Commons: The 1929 Prosecution of Louis Auger, Former uOttawa Professor » |
| 2004-05 | Annette O’Connor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences « Yes, no, maybe, helping patients make tough decisions » |
| 2003-04 | Steve Perry, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science « Strategies for Coping with Stress, and Other Fish Tales » |
| 2002-03 | Shana Poplack, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts « Uncovering the Hidden Origins of Everyday Language » |
| 2001-02 | Gregor Bochmann, SITE, Faculty of Engineering « Why art is Needed for Software Development » |
| 2000-01 | Gary Slater, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science « La vie, molécule par molécule: sorting, moving and teasing polymers » |
| 1999-00 | Heather Davis, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences « Using DNA to modulate the immune system: potential impact on vaccines, cancer therapies and allergy » |
| 1998-99 | Emery Fortin, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science « La science à l’envers: From Solar Cells to Bose-Einstein Condensation” |
| 1997-98 | Nicolas Georganas, SITE « Écouter ou étouffer le chant des sirènes: le Web et le multimédia apprivoisés » « Resisting or Embracing the Sirens’ Song: Multimedia and the Web for the Wise » |
| 1996-97 | David Handelman, Department of Mathematics and Statisctics, Faculty of Science « On the Dynamics of the Binomial Theorem » |
| 1995-96 | Robert Korneluk, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine « Research into Molecular Genetics: From Muscular Dystrophy to Cell Suicide » |
| 1994-95 | Chad Gaffield, Department of History, Faculty of Arts « The Renewing of Canadian History: Nouvelles questions, nouvelles sources, nouvelles méthodes » |
| 1993-94 | Juan (Tito) Scaiano, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science « From Magnets to Power Lines: How they Influence Chemical Reactions » |
| 1992-93 | Gilles Paquet, Faculté d’administration « Sciences transversales et savoirs d’expérience: The Art of Trespassing » |
| 1991-92 | Alvin Mahrer, School of Psychology « Opening the Closed Doors of Distinguished Psychotherapists: The Discovery of how Change Occurs in Psychotherapy Sessions » |
| 1990-91 | Howard Alper, Department of Chemistry « Basic Research: From Petrochemicals to Pharmaceuticals and Beyond » |
| 1989-90 | Jean-Louis Major, Département des lettres françaises, Faculté des arts « A la recherche d’un texte authentique » |
| 1988-89 | David Levine, Department of Nephrology « Inside the Kidney: Neither Dull nor Void » |
| 1987-88 | John Holmes, Department of Chemistry « Cultivating my Chemical Garden » |
| 1986-87 | Jan Veizer, Department of Geology « The Earth and its Life: Systems Perspective » |
| 1985-86 | Stanislaw S. Stuchly, Department of Electrical Engineering « Radio Waves and our Bodies » |
| 1984-85 | William Dray, Department of Philosophy « Causal Controversy in History » |
| 1983-84 | Jean Himms-Hagen, Department of Biochemistry « Body Heat, Food and Fatness » |
| 1982-83 | Walter Tarnopolsky, Common Law Section « International Supervision of Human Rights: The U.N. Experience » |
| 1981-82 | Gérald Beaudoin, Section de droit civil « Rapatriement et puis aprés? » « Repatriation now what? » |
| 1980-81 | Morris Kates, Department of Biochemistry « Adventures in Membrane-Land » |
| 1979-80 | Fernand Ouellet, Département d’histoire « Le paysan canadien-français d’avant 1850: libéré ou exploité? » |
| 1978-79 | Gordin Kaplan, Department of Biology « Self and Non-Self: Narcissism at the Cell Level (Moi et l’autre: aventures d’un lymphomane) » |
| 1977-78 | Nigel Howard, Faculty of Administration « Powerful Paradoxes » |
| 1976-77 | Marcel Trudel, Département d’histoire « L’Homme de ma génération, homme d’ancien régime » |
| 1975-76 | Marcel LeBlanc, Département de physique « Harnessing Perpetual Motion: Frozen Asset or Future Prospect? » |
| 1974-75 | Wilbert J. Keon, Department of Surgery « Coronary Heart Surgery: New Directions » |
| 1973-74 | Donat Pharand, Section de droit civil « The Northwest Passage: Un souci des canadiens » |
| 1972-73 | Jean Ménard, Département de lettres françaises « Albert Besnard – le magnifique » |
| 1971-72 | Benjamin C.Y. Lu, Department of Chemical Engineering « Turning Water into Wine » |
| 1970-71 | Keith J. Laidler, Department of Chemistry « The Seeds of Time » |
| 1969-70 | Benoît Garceau, o.m.i., Faculté de philosophie « Les niveaux de la critique » |
| 1968-69 | Paul Wyczynski, Département de lettres françaises « Nelligan et la Musique » |
| 1967-68 | Léonard F. Bélanger, Département d’histologie et embryologie « Bonescapes by Atomlight » |
| 1966-67 | Brian E. Conway, Department of Chemistry « Electricity and Chemistry: Some Reflections on Historical and Contemporary Work » |
| 1965-66 | John Ertl, Faculty of Psychology « Evoked Potential and Intelligence » |
| 1964-65 | Eugène Roberto, Département de lettres françaises « Réflexion littéraire: Claudel » |
| 1963-64 | Margaret Beznak, Department of Physiology « Experiments on Enlargement of the Heart » |