CivMin professors receive Connaught New Researcher Awards

Professor Sarah Haines (L) and Professor Mohammed Basheer.

Two CivMin professors, Mohammed Basheer and Sarah Haines, are included among eight projects from U of T Engineering supported by the Connaught New Researcher Awards, which helps early-career faculty members establish their research programs. 

The eight projects are:

  • Creation of next generation vaccines against sexually transmitted infections — Professor Aereas Aung (BME)
  • Integrated hydrological-statistical method and tool for landslide susceptibility mapping in a changing climate — Professor Mohammed Basheer (CivMin)  
  • Development of equitable pulse oximeters — Professor Daniel Franklin (BME)  
  • Open Plenums & Indoor Environments (OPEN): Evaluating the Impact of Return Air Systems on Indoor Environmental Quality — Professor Sarah Haines (CivMin) 
  • Productively Surmounting the Memory Wall with Task Parallelism — Professor Mark Jeffrey (ECE) 
  • Affinity-directed dynamic polymer materials for biomarker sensing — Professor Caitlin Maikawa (BME)  
  • Learning the Language of Metal-Organic Frameworks Topology — Professor Mohamad Moosavi (ChemE)  
  • But I could be fired! How early career engineers hold the public paramount from organizationally subordinate locations — Professor Cindy Rottmann (ISTEP)