News Releases - 2005
Fourteen Canadian scientists and scholars win Killam Research Fellowships
Ottawa, March 3, 2005 – Fourteen outstanding Canadian researchers have been awarded a total of $1.47 million in the 38th annual competition for Killam Research Fellowships, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Among Canada’s most distinguished research awards, the Canada Council for the Arts Killam Research Fellowships are made possible by a bequest of Mrs. Dorothy J. Killam and a gift she made before her death in 1965. The awards support scholars engaged in research projects of outstanding merit in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering and interdisciplinary studies within these fields.
Killam Research Fellowships enable Canada’s best scientists and scholars to devote two years to full-time research and writing. The recipients are chosen by the Killam Selection Committee, which comprises 14 eminent scientists and scholars representing a broad range of disciplines.
After considering 83 applications, the Killam Selection Committee chose the following seven researchers as new Killam Research Fellows for 2005:
Biological Sciences
Bernard Crespi, Simon Fraser University: Comparative Social Evolution: Convergent and Divergent Patterns in the Phylogenesis of Cooperation
Chemistry
Axel D. Becke, Queen’s University: Density Functional Quantum Chemistry: A New Approach
East Asian Studies
Kenneth Dean, McGill University: Irrigation and Individuation: Regional Ritual Networks in Southeast China
English Literature
Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University: Canadian Women in Print, 1750-1918
Linguistics
Denis Bouchard, Université du Québec à Montréal: Au-delà du descriptivisme : l'exaptation dans le language
Medieval Studies
Virginia Brown, University of Toronto: Writing Centres in the Lands of St. Benedict (Medieval Southern Italy) ca. 750-1550
Physics
Clifford Burgess, McGill University, McMaster University and the Perimeter Institute: String Cosmology
The following seven Killam Research Fellowships were renewed for a second year:
Classics
Katherine M.D. Dunbabin, McMaster University: Art and popular Culture in the later Roman Empire
Earth & Ocean Sciences
Ron M. Clowes, University of British Columbia: Revealing the Evolution of a Continent: Synthesis of Canada’s Lithoprobe Project
Physics
Mike Thewalt, Simon Fraser University: Redefining the limits of semiconductor spectroscopy
Zoology
Anthony R.E. Sinclair, University of British Columbia: Biodiversity change and ecosystem dynamics in the Serengeti, East Africa
Canadian Literature
Sherrill Elizabeth Grace, University of British Columbia: Sharon Pollock: A Life in Theatre
Geochemistry
Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto: Origin of Hydrogen and Hydrocarbon Gases in the Subsurface: Implications for the Deep Biosphere
History
Lynne Viola, University of Toronto: The Other Archipelago: The Birth of the Gulag and the Origins of Forced Labour in the Soviet Union, 1930-1953
General information
The Canada Council for the Arts, in addition to its principal role of promoting and fostering the arts in Canada, administers and awards a number of distinguished prizes in the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences and engineering. Among these are the Killam Prizes, the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes, the John G. Diefenbaker Awards, the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts and the Walter Carsen Prizes for Excellence in the Performing Arts.
For more information about these awards and prizes, including nomination procedures, contact Carol Bream, Acting Director of the Arts Division and Director of the Killam Program, at
(613) 566-4414 or 1-800-263-5588, ext. 5210, or Janet Riedel, Acting Director of Endowments and Prizes, at (613) 566-4414 or 1-800-263-5588, ext. 5041.
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