Our Laureates

2020/09/18

Martha White

My primary research area is machine learning, where the goal is to understand and develop algorithms that improve prediction and decision-making capabilities with experience.

2020/06/25

Edward H. Sargent – 2020 Killam Prize

Edward H. Sargent is a pioneer in the field of nanotechnology. His research involves the use of small semiconductor particles a few nanometers in size, called colloidal quantum dots or CQDs.

2020/06/25

Alan Evans – 2020 Killam Prize

Alan Evans is one of the world’s foremost authorities on brain imaging and the modeling of brain networks, and his ground-breaking work has been awarded with many of the field’s most prestigious awards

2020/06/25

Sarah Carter – 2020 Killam Prize

Sarah Carter’s ground-breaking scholarship has reconceptualized the history of the Canadian West by placing women, settler and Indigenous, front and centre, within a broad context of nation and empire-building.

2020/06/25

Cecilia Benoit – 2020 Killam Prize

As a distinguished social scientist, Cecilia Benoit’s work with socially excluded and stigmatized groups, in particular with sex workers, has made important contributions to Canadian public policy in the fields of women’s health, maternity care, and health service equity.

2020/06/25

Barbara Sherwood Lollar – 2020 Killam Prize

Barbara Sherwood Lollar’s work tracing halogenated organic contaminants has had a significant impact on organic environmental geochemistry and environmental remediation practices worldwide.

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