Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Sponsor

Royal Society of Canada

Sponsor deadline: Friday, December 13, 2024

Internal deadline: Friday, October 4, 2024

Award Details

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists is Canada’s first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership. Members of the College are Canadians and Permanent Residents who, at an early stage of their career, have demonstrated a high level of achievement. The criteria for election is excellence, and membership is for seven years.

Review the RSC Nomination Procedure and Components of a Nomination/Guide.

Eligibility: Candidates must be no more than 15 years from the conferral of the PhD or equivalent qualification. For the cohort of 2025 (due Dec 2024), a candidate must have received their PhD or equivalent no earlier than January 1, 2009. Career interruptions can extend this eligibility period. Review the RSC FAQs

Nominations:

Departments, divisions, institutes, schools and faculties are encouraged to embed equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) considerations in their nomination strategies.

There are two distinct routes by which candidates may be nominated for election to the Society:

1) Nomination by Fellow or College member:

Fellows or current College members are eligible to nominate candidates and are encouraged to support their peers.
Nominations of UBC faculty members by RSC members are submitted by the nominator, but can access ORPA support.

2) Nomination by Institutional Member (UBC):

UBC can nominate College members as an Institutional Member (under UBC's President). IM nominations do not carry additional weight in the RSC adjudication process.
Nominations under this category are facilitated by the VPRI Office of Research Prizes and Awards.

Please submit notice of planned RSC nominations, including requests for institutional nominations and renominations, by October 4, 2024, 2024: https://prizes.research.ubc.ca/2024-notice-planned-rsc-nomination

For nomination support: Contact Stephanie O'Neill, Award Nomination Development Officer stephanie.oneill@ubc.ca

Previous Award Winners

2024

Mohammad Arjmand (School of Engineering)
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Marie Auger-Méthé (Statistics / Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries)
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Kayla King (Zoology / Microbiology & Immunology)
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Andrea Reid (Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries)
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Dylan Robinson (School of Music)
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Manish Sadarangani (Pediatrics)
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Azim Shariff (Psychology)
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Heidi Tworek (History / School of Public Policy and Global Affairs)

2023

Emily D. Cranston (Wood Science / Chemical and Biological Engineering)
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Jian Liu (School of Engineering)
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Eli Puterman (School of Kinesiology)

2022

Kimberley Brownlee (Philosophy)
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Eric Li (Management)
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Christoph Ortner (Mathematics)

2021

Sheryl Lightfoot (Political Science, First Nations and Indigenous Studies and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, UBCV)

2020

Abbas S. Milani (School of Engineering / Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute)
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Catharine Winstanley (Psychology)

2019

Vanessa Andreotti (Educational Studies)
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Lukas Chrostowski (Electrical & Computer Engineering)

2018

Lori Brotto (Obstetrics & Gynaecology)
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Ayesha Chaudhry (Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice)
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William Cheung (Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries)
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Kiley Hamlin (Psychology)
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Teresa Liu-Ambrose (Physical Therapy)

2017

George Belliveau (Language & Literacy Education)
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Kai Chan (Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability)
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Christina Laffin (Asian Studies)
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Joanna McGrenere (Computer Science)
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Christian Steidl (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine)
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Zhen (Jane) Wang (Electrical & Computer Engineering)