Trainee Awards & Recognition
Rotman trainees, including postdoctoral fellows and graduate student members, have received a number of awards, secured competitive fellowships and been recognized for exceptional scholarly achievements.
Notable distinctions dating back to 2013 are listed below.
Scholarships & Fellowships
Clair Baleshta (doctoral student) -recipient of a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
Ontario Graduate Scholarship recipients: Ed Allore, Charles Bakker, Owen Chevalier, Manpreet Kaur Rai, Nicholas Michieli, Nicholas Potvin
Jon Bowen (doctoral student) -recipient of a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for his project entitled “Towards Gibsonian Mindreading”
Heather Champion (doctoral student) -recipient of a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
Ben Chin-Yee (postdoctoral research associate) – recipient of the 2022 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Cambridge University
Jess Du Toit (doctoral student) – received a 2020-23 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for her project, Human Vulnerability and Medical Ethics: Towards Proper Protections For All Vulnerable Research Participants. (OGS also awarded, but declined for Vanier.)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship recipients: Charles Bakker, Clair Baleshta, Owen Chevalier, Jordan Craib, Jaipreet Mattu, Madvahi Mohan, Nicholsa Potvin
Jaipreet Mattu (doctoral student) – recipient of Richard A. Harshman Memorial Scholarship
Matthew Parker (postdoctoral research associate) – recipient of Visiting Fellowship from the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Heather Stewart (doctoral student) – recipient of a Gold Governor General’s Academic Medal
Alin Varciu (doctoral student) – One-year Doctoral Research Grant at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, awarded by DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
Jon Bowen (doctoral student) -recipient of a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for his project entitled “Towards Gibsonian Mindreading”
Ben Chin Yee (postdoctoral clinical fellow) – awarded the 2020 Compassion and Technology AMS Fellowship for his research on the impact of genomics and artificial intelligence on equity and compassionate care in oncology in his research
Jess Du Toit (doctoral student) – received a 2020-23 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for her project, Human Vulnerability and Medical Ethics: Towards Proper Protections For All Vulnerable Research Participants. (OGS also awarded, but declined for Vanier.)
Niels Linnemann (postdoctoral fellow) – recipient of Young Academy Fellowship, awarded by Hamburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Jaipreet Mattu (doctoral student) – recipient of WORLDiscoveries Scholarship
Madhavi Mohan (doctoral student) – recipient of Mary Routledge Fellowship, awarded by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Sidath Rankaduwa (doctoral student) – recipient of Graduate Course Development Fellowship from the Western Department of Philosophy for the course, Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy
Varun Ravikumar (doctoral student) – recipient of MITACS Research Training Award
Dean’s Entrance Scholarship recipient: Hershy Jaiprakash
Ontario Graduate Scholarship recipients: Madhavi Mohan, Jaipreet Mattu
Becky Ellis (doctoral student) – received the 2019 Henry Mandelbaum Graduate Fellowship for Excellence in Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
Adam Koberinski (doctoral student) – recipient of Richard A. Harshman Memorial Scholarship
Ontario Graduate Scholarship recipients: Jon Bowen, Madhavi Mohan
Dean’s Entrance Scholarship recipients: Jaipreet Mattu, Varun Ravikumar
Jon Bowen (doctoral student) – awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarship
John Lehmann (doctoral student) – recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program Doctoral Scholarship for his project, Mathematics and empirical science: understanding the role of structure in theory
Austin Horn (doctoral student) – recipient of a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for his project, Fiduciary loyalty in medical and research ethics
Derek Oswick (doctoral student) – recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program Doctoral Scholarship for his project, The role of values in neuroscientific progress
Becky Ellis (doctoral student) – recipient of a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for her project, Pollinator people: bees, weeds, and struggles for bee-friendly cities
Tracy de Boer (doctoral student) – recipient of a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for her project, Excess and material inequality
Tom De Saegher (doctoral student) – recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Program Doctoral Scholarship for his project, How quantum mechanics can predict the existence of objects in space without positing objects local to regions of spacetime
Jaclyn Lanthier (doctoral student) – recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Program Doctoral Scholarship for her project, Understanding memory: how can the faculties collaborate to advance our knowledge
Adam Woodcox (doctoral student) – recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Program Doctoral Scholarship for his project, Plato on the nature and value of pleasure
Andrew Peterson (doctoral student) – received a 2013-14 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
Andrew Peterson (doctoral student) – recipient of Richard A. Harshman Memorial Scholarship
Awards & Prizes
Emily Adlam (postdoctoral research associate) – recipient of the 2023 Blaumann Prize, Blaumann Foundation
Emily Cichocki (doctoral student) – recipient of “Labour Of Love” GenNext, Labour Appreciation Award from United Way Elgin-Middlesex
Jon Bowen (doctoral student) – recipient of Western University Faculty of Arts & Humanities Graduate Thesis Research Award
Adam Koberinski (doctoral student) – awarded Beyond Spacetime Essay prize for his paper, Problems with the Cosmological Constant Problem
Mark Baker (doctoral student) – awarded Western University Graduate Student Teaching Assistant (GSTA) Awards of Excellence
Eunice Chan (doctoral student) – awarded Western University Graduate Student Teaching Assistant (GSTA) Awards of Excellence
Melissa Jacquart (doctoral student) – recipient of Western University Faculty of Arts & Humanities Graduate Thesis Research Award
Emma Ryman (doctoral student) – awarded Canadian Philosophical Association student essay prize for her paper, titled Fiduciary Duties to Future Persons
Yann Benétreau-Dupin (doctoral student) – Hadden Prize (awarded by Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science) for best student paper of the year, titled Lost in the Multiverse
Jennifer Epp (doctoral student) – awarded Canadian Philosophical Association essay prize for her paper, Why the Epistemic Effects of Oppression Must Matter in Feminist Theory (Why Epistemic Oppression Matters)
Jamie Shaw (doctoral student) – awarded Canadian Philosophical Association essay prize for his paper, A Tale of Two Pluralisms: Why Science Needs Metaphysics
Rachel Brown (postdoctoral fellow) – awarded Sir Karl Popper Prize for best paper in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, titled What Evolvability Really Is