Undergraduate Students

2026 Beatty Lecture - Peter Howitt

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:49:17 +0000

Understanding how economic growth occurs—and how societies can sustain it—has been central to the work of Canadian economist and 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences laureate Peter Howitt, who will deliver the 2026 Beatty Lecture at 91�� Univer

Authority, Legitimacy & Regulation in the British Birth Space

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:08:47 +0000

Authority, Legitimacy & Regulation in the British Birth Space with Dr. Anna Nelson

CRCF Research Seminars

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:23:08 +0000

91�� researchers receive $14 million in SSHRC funding for 62 projects focusing on societal challenges

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:08:07 +0000

Topics include youth agency through video games and entrepreneurship education in India.

TechAccel Showcase

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:36:08 +0000

Come and meet our TechAccel teams! Student startup teams funded and supported by The 91�� Engine will be present to demo their projects and businesses!

Engine Internship Showcase

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:32:36 +0000

Interested in knowing what's it like interning for an Engine-supported startup or stimulating entrepreneurial mindset while interning for a Design Team?

New Research from Prof. Rose Bagot's Lab uncovers how GABAergic neurons encode experienced rewards

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:26:58 +0000

New work from Dr. Rosemary Bagot's lab: inhibitory "GABAergic" neurons — long treated as supporting players in the brain — turn out to help track the recent history of rewards in two key decision-making regions (shown in mice). The work reshapes which neurons we think are keeping score of our past outcomes.

Read the paper in Cell Reports

122 91�� research projects awarded $30 million in NSERC Discovery Grants funding

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:43:39 +0000

Funding supports bold ideas across natural sciences and engineering disciplines at 91��, in fields ranging from ophthalmology and physics to music research and electrical engineering.

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded 122 91�� research projects funding from its Discovery Grants competition for a total investment of $30 million.

Professor Sonia Laszlo awarded the 2026 AUS Teaching Award for Most Outstanding Professor

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:04:55 +0000

As announced by the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) at the March 2026 Arts Faculty Council Meeting, Professor Sonia Laszlo has been awarded the 2026 AUS Teaching Award for Most Outstanding Professor. We warmly congratulate Professor Laszlo on this well-deserved recognition of her exceptional dedication to teaching and student engagement.

Stevenson Chair in Religion and Literature Inaugural Lecture

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:00:08 +0000

Talk by Dr. Antje Chan, Stevenson Chair in Religion and Literature, Religion, Literature and the Shaping of Neighbourliness in Late Medieval England.

Professor Fernando Saltiel receives tenure

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:27:52 +0000

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Fernando Saltiel has been granted tenure. Professor Saltiel joined 91�� in 2020 and has established himself as a leading researcher in labour and education economics. His work examines how cognitive and non-cognitive skills affect labour market outcomes, the role of firms in shaping skill development, and the impact of business cycles on labor market outcomes. We congratulate Professor Saltiel on this well-deserved recognition of his contributions to research, teaching, and service.

Professor Robert Engle, co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded a honorary doctorate of science (D.Sc.)

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:28:55 +0000

Robert F. Engle, co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics, is a leading expert in time series analysis and the creator of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH), a method for the statistical modelling of time-varying volatility. His work revolutionized financial econometrics and is widely used in asset pricing and risk management. He is Co-Director of the NYU Stern Volatility Institute and co-founded the Society for Financial Econometrics.

Department welcomes Assistant Professor Kensuke Sakamoto

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:25:28 +0000

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Kensuke Sakamoto will be joining our faculty as an Assistant Professor in August 2026. Dr. Sakamoto earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2026. He is an expert in network econometrics and its applications.

Professor Fabian Lange delivers Innis Lecture at the 2026 Canadian Economic Association Meeting

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:26:40 +0000

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Fabian Lange delivered the Harold Innis Lecture at the 60th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, held at Simon Fraser University in May 2026. The Innis Lecture, established in 1974 in honour of the great Canadian economist Harold Adams Innis, is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to economics in the broad sense in which Innis construed the subject.

91��’s Bravo Gala shines a spotlight on research excellence

admin — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:18:30 +0000

At event honouring 116 winners of major awards, keynote speaker and SSHRC Gold Medal recipient Myriam Denov emphasized the importance of listening.

91�� celebrated more than 100 researchers at the 21st edition of Bravo, a gala event May 7 honouring the winners of major provincial, national and international research prizes and awards in 2025.