Note: these prizes and awards often need Department and/or Institutional support. Please check with the Department Chair.
| Organization | Name | Description | Link | Due date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Sloan Research Fellowship |
The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. |
Sloan Research Fellowship | September 15 |
| John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | The Guggenheim Fellowship |
Often characterized as "midcareer" awards, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Fellowships are awarded through two annual competitions: one open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada, and the other open to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean. Candidates must apply to the Guggenheim Foundation in order to be considered in either of these competition. |
Guggenheim Fellowship | September 16 |
| Royal Society of Canada | Fellowship (FRSC) | Fellows shall be persons whose intellectual achievements have been exceptional through a body of publications, intellectual endeavors or creative activities exhibiting original contributions in the arts, humanities or sciences, as well as in public life. | RSC Fellowship | December 1 |
| NSERC | Steacie Fellowship | The Fellowships are awarded to enhance the career development of outstanding and highly promising university faculty who are earning a strong international reputation for original research. | Steacie Fellowship | June 7 |
| John Polanyi Award | Created to recognize and support a university researcher or team of researchers whose work has led to a recent outstanding Canadian advance in a field of the natural sciences or engineering. | John Polanyi Award | April 1 | |
| National Research Council (NRC). | Steacie Prize | The Steacie Prize is therefore awarded to a younger person 40 years of age or less who has made notable contributions to research in Canada. | Steacie Prize | June 30 |
| Canada Council for the Arts. | Killam Research Fellowship | Designed to recognize and support distinguished Canadian scholars, normally full professors at Canadian universities and research institutes, who have established an outstanding reputation in their area of research. | Killam Research Fellowship | |
| Killam Prize | Awarded annually to distinguished Canadian scholars in the fields of health sciences, natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities. | Killam Prize | ||
| Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) | Prix Urgel-Archambault |
Cet prix est décerné à une chercheuse ou à un chercheur pour souligner l'excellence et le rayonnement de ses travaux et de ses actions dans le domaine des sciences physiques, des mathématiques, de l’informatique ou du génie. |
Prix Urgel-Archambault | February |
| Gouvernement du Québec | Prix du Québec | Les Prix du Québec représentent la plus haute distinction décernée par le gouvernement du Québec dans les domaines de la culture et de la science. Ils soulignent l’œuvre ou la carrière remarquable de personnes qui contribuent à l’essor de leur domaine d’activité, repoussent les limites de la connaissance et participent au rayonnement du Québec à l’échelle internationale. | Prix du Quebec | March 14 |