Alumna Samantha Eby receives 2020 Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners

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Academic Achievement

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Alumni

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Canada Council for the Arts

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture

Landscape & Design

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University of Toronto alumna Samantha Eby has been named the recipient of the 2020 Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners.

The prestigious $34,000 prize is awarded annually by the Canada Council for the Arts to a recent architecture graduate who has demonstrated potential in contemporary architectural design.

It’s the third consecutive year the prize has been won by U of T alumni. Eby, who graduated from the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design’s master of architecture program in 2019, follows Kinan Hewitt, who graduated in 2018, and David Verbeek, who graduated in 2017.

Eby “balances a deep curiosity for the economies that contribute to architecture and urbanism with a provocative and tangible design sensibility," says her thesis advisor, Assistant Professor Michael Piper.

Once travel restrictions are lifted, Eby plans to use her new funding on research trips to Australia, Germany and Austria to visit and document examples of collective and non-profit housing developments.

"My research is looking for unrealized opportunities in Canada for new forms of housing that are outside the current practices of financing and site development," she says. "I'm looking at questions of how housing in Canada can be more than just a commodity, and how, by using communal financing and development practices, we can make multi-unit housing more accessible, sustainable, and desirable."

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Arthur Ripstein and Douglas Stephan awarded Killam Prizes

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Arthur Ripstein and Douglas Stephan awarded Killam Prizes

Research & Innovation

lanthierj Wed, 02/03/2021 - 12:54

Faculty

St. George

Killam Prize

Canada Council for the Arts

Faculty of Arts & Science

Faculty of Law

Department of Philosophy

Department of Chemistry

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University Professor of law and philosophy Arthur Ripstein and University Professor of chemistry Douglas Stephan have each been awarded the prestigious Killam Prize by the Canada Council for the Arts.

The prize recognizes select researchers who have achieved international scholarly eminence in their fields. Ripstein was recognized for his contributions to humanities and Stephan for his contributions to natural sciences.

A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and author of several influential books, Ripstein joined the University of Toronto’s department of philosophy in the Faculty of Arts & Science 1987 and was jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law in 1999. He delivered the 2019 Tanner Lectures at UC Berkeley, one of the most prestigious lecture series in philosophy.

Stephan is the recipient of the 2019 John C. Polanyi Award, the 2019 E.W.R. Steacie Award, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2009 Killam Research Fellowship. He joined the department of chemistry in the Faculty of Arts & Science in 2008 as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair after 25 years as a faculty member at the University of Windsor.

“The Killam Prize is an important recognition for these extraordinary University Professors whose research continues to make a profound impact on their fields, said University Professor Ted Sargent, vice-president, research and innovation and strategic initiatives. “One of the world’s leading legal and political philosophers, Arthur Ripstein is renowned for his scholarship in the history of philosophy, theories of justice, tort law and the law of war. Douglas Stephan’s game-changing discovery of a new class of catalysts led to the production of more sustainable plastics – and he continues to explore how chemistry can address such challenges as greenhouse gas remediation and energy efficient catalysis.

“The University of Toronto congratulates University Professors Stephan and Ripstein and thanks the Canada Council and the Killam Trusts for their support of our outstanding scholars.”

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