Room full of people celebrating the 2024 OVPRI Awards for Research Excellence

Awards and recognition

Awards and distinctions have become a key component of our strategic plan to promote research excellence and enhance our university’s visibility.

Celebrating success

We have put into place several initiatives and mechanisms to foster a culture of research excellence, increase recognition opportunities for our researchers and celebrate success.

Our approach to reaching our goals includes:

  • Promoting awards as a means to further our researchers’ career growth and attainment of their own research and knowledge mobilization goals.
  • A strong commitment toward making equity, diversity and inclusion an integral part of all processes;
  • Celebrating achievement within and outside the uOttawa community.

Latest award stories

Professor David Cook working in the lab
Research

Dreaming up better treatments for gynecological diseases

Polanyi Prize winner David Cook is driven by a simple but ambitious goal: to deepen our understanding of gynecologic diseases, develop new treatments,…
Xiaoyi Bao
Research and innovation

Making infrastructure smarter and safer: How Xiaoyi Bao’s fiber optic breakthroughs are protecting lives and the environment

When you drive across a bridge, walk through a tunnel, or rely on clean water flowing through underground pipes, you’re trusting that these structures…
John Bell
Faculty of Medicine

Dr. John Bell named to the Order of Canada for his significant contributions to medical science

Dr. John Bell, a top cancer research scientist at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine and The Ottawa Hospital, has been named to the Order of…
Carole Fleuret
Francophonie

Carole Fleuret wins 2025 Acfas Gilles-Paquet Award

Faculty of Education professor recognized for outstanding contributions to research in minority French-speaking communities in Canada.
The Honourable Minister of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security Nolan Quinn, the Honourable Lieutenant Governor Edith Dumont, Hossein Davarinejad and John Charles Polanyi, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Research and innovation

Cracking the code behind DNA repair and disease

Polanyi Prize winner Hossein Davarinejad maps the molecular signals involved in gene regulation and DNA repair. His work is contributing to new insigh…
Timothy Chooi
Research and innovation

Violinist Timothy Chooi earns EDI in Research Award for changing classical music through community outreach

What happens when equity, diversity and inclusion takes centre stage in classical music? As Timothy Chooi’s research shows, it sparks change that reso…
Indigenous woman in front of a class

Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI)

The Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation (OVPRI) is committed to fostering a research environment that provides equitable opportunities for everyone and that respects and values diversity and inclusion.

Internal competitions

The Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation organizes two annual internal competitions to honour researchers whose projects have significant impact.

The Vice-President, Research presenting an award

Early Career Researcher of the Year Award

Presented annually to faculty members who have made exceptional contributions to research at the University.

AI Panel: Shaping AI for Justice Futures

Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Excellence Award

For researchers who have each conducted a successful, innovative projects that promote and facilitate the use of research outside academia.

Four arms holding each other

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Research Award

This award recognizes equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) champions and encourages researchers to contribute to the creation of a more inclusive research community and society.

Drapeau organisation internationale de la Francophonie

Award for Research Excellence in Francophonie

This annual award aims to recognize researchers who contribute to enriching the Francophonie through scientific inquiry and by producing knowledge in French.

Advisory committee

A committee sitting at a table

The Advisory Committee for Research Prizes and Awards is mandated by the OVPRI to support the University in its efforts to promote research excellence through prizes and distinctions, and increase its visibility on the national and international scene.

President

Howard Rundle (Faculty of Science)

Members

Meredith Rocchi (Faculty of Arts)
Robert-Falcon Ouellette (Faculty of Education)
Mamadou Fall (Faculty of Engineering)
Chantal Matar (Faculty of Health Sciences)
Emmanuelle Bernheim (Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section)
Delphine Nakache (Faculty of Law, Common Law Section)
Barbara Vanderhyden (Faculty of Medicine)
Stephen Brown (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Jane O'Reilly (Telfer School of Management)

Connect with us

Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation

Tabaret Hall
550 Cumberland St.
Room 246
Ottawa ON Canada
K1N 6N5

Tel: 613-562-5270
innovation@uOttawa.ca

Contact our services

Awards and recognition

Marie-Claude Tremblay
Research Prizes and Awards Manager

Tel: 613-562-5800 ext. 3470
Marie-Claude.Tremblay@uOttawa.ca