The UTSC Undergraduate Research & Creative Prize honours UTSC students who have excelled in research, scholarship and creative activities in the classroom and beyond. Up to 4 cash prizes of $1000 will be given out annually, one each for projects in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Creative categories. The judges evaluate the projects on their quality and reserve the right to award prizes in one, two, three, or all four of these categories.
2023-2024
Humanities
Bhavana Akilan
Social Sciences
Brianna Wedderburn
Sciences
Mira-Smaktruffa Ola
Creative
Tanya Ng Cheong
2022-2023
Humanities
Kaitlyn Nicol
Social Sciences (tie)
Stephanie Domingo
Sapolnach Prompiengchai
Sciences
Pionie Kwok
2021-2022
Humanities (tie)
Noah Faberman
Zekai Zhao
Social Sciences (tie)
Blessing Nkennor
Sapolnach Prompiengchai
Sciences (tie)
Jasmin Khela
Aditi Bansal, Ayuni Weerakoon Ratnayake, Natalie Wong, Sapolnach Prompiengchai and Theluckshan Saseetharan
2020-2021
Jane Ching Lam Lui, Physical & Environmental Sciences
Rajpreet Sidhu, Centre for Critical Development Studies
Jeffrey Liu, Historical & Cultural Studies
2019-2020
Angela Zavaleta Bernuy, Computer & Mathematical Sciences
Ali Javeed, Psychology
Sylvie Stojanovski, Arts Culture & Media
2018-2019
Judy Perpose, Arts Culture & Media
Praveen Jayarajan, Biological Sciences
2017-2018
Olivia Rennie, Psychology
Karen Wang, Arts Culture & Media
Nikolai Meek, Computer & Mathematical Sciences
2016-2017
Garima Shah, Neuroscience
Monica Shah and Abdulwahab Sidiqi, Centre for French and Linguistics
Janessa Tam, Centre for French and Linguistics
2015-2016
Nishita Agrawal, Management
Cherrie (Yan Ning) Kwok, Psychology
Swara Shah, Biological Sciences