Research Awards and Prizes

Research Excellence Awards

The purpose of the award is to publicly recognize full-time faculty for their research excellence; to encourage the pursuit of such excellence, and to promote the improvement of research within the School. This award will be recognized as the highest internal research award in the school.

Tier I award is for outstanding researchers acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their fields who have been conducting research for 10 years or more since their first academic appointment. 

Tier II is for an excellent emerging researcher, acknowledged by their peers or trainees as having the potential to lead in their field who has been actively involved in conducting research for less than 10 years since their first academic appointment. 

DENT-STAR Prizes

The purpose of the DENT-STAR prizes is to recognize the excellence of research done by undergraduate (DDS and DH) or graduate students (MSc and PhD) in the Mike Petryk School of Dentistry. The competition is annual and the students can apply for their accepted or published research article.