Dr. Kang Lee
Research in Moral Development to Legal, Clinical and Healthcare Innovation.
Kendra Nayanka
An outdoor portable air quality monitor (AQM) measuring fine particulate matter, number of particles, temperature, humidity, air pressure, and air quality index.
Seven Generations Education Institute
The institute will create pathways for Indigenous language teacher training by investing a $2 million grant in their five-year, Indigenous-led project Language Creates the Farm Team. Adopting the Elders Circle approach, the program integrates culture and land-based teachings with an emphasis on building from an earlier practicum.
Maayan Ziv
Ms. Ziv is the founder of AccessNow, a mobile app designed to empower people living with disabilities to live more independently.
Dr. Jackie Dawson, Dr. Natalie Carter, Ms. Natasha Simonee, and Ms. Shirley Tagalik
Their work is leading to the creation of new routes for Arctic shipping that better protect culturally significant marine areas. The project supports national and international ocean policy and has made the region a global leader in self-determined science.
Dr. Geoffrey T. Fong, Dr. Mary E. Thompson, Dr. David Hammond
With the persistent leadership of Dr. Geoffrey Fong, the ITC Project, centered at the University of Waterloo, is globally renowned for its innovative research supporting and defending effective tobacco control policies such as graphic health warnings, smoke free laws, advertising bans, and tobacco taxes.
Dr. Xiaoyi Bao
Dr. Xiaoyi Bao transformed the field of structural monitoring with her invention of Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS), an ultra-sensitive and precise optical fiber based technology installed in civil structures, and capable of detecting dynamic stress and high and low frequency vibrations indicative of crack formation.
Jad Saliba
In addition to consolidating hundreds of critical data types from smartphones, computers, Internet of things devices and cloud services, Magnet Forensics’ tools leverage artificial intelligence, advanced search techniques and data visualization to help investigators uncover crucial digital evidence to convict or exonerate suspects.
Dr. Shaf Keshavjee
Transplant surgeons can now objectively assess donor lung function outside of the body for extended periods and then confidently decide whether to use a donor lung for transplant.
Dr. Kamran Khan
Using geographic information systems, natural language processing and artificial intelligence, the multidisciplinary team at BlueDot has been able to predict the worldwide spread of influenza, and track the spread of recent outbreaks, including Ebola and the Zika virus.