The UTSC Undergraduate Research and Creative Prize is a financial prize sponsored jointly by the U of T Scarborough Library and U of T Scarborough Office of the Vice-Principal Research and Innovation (OVPRI).

It is open to all students who are currently registered in a U of T Scarborough undergraduate degree program and have completed their first year of study.

The Prize honours UTSC students who have excelled in research, scholarship and creative activities in the classroom and beyond. Up to 4 cash prizes of $1000 will be given out annually, one each for projects in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Creative categories.

Past winners

2024-2025

Humanities

Bhavana Akilan

Social Sciences

Pravina Robert Princely, Pratik Bahl, and Abishake Sutharsan

Sciences

Daniel Harrington

Creative

Karen Quan, Elroy Quan, and Zaheer Kazi Coutinho

2023-2024

Humanities

Bhavana Akilan

Social Sciences

Brianna Wedderburn

Sciences

Mira-Smaktruffa Ola

Creative

Tanya Ng Cheong

2022-2023

Humanities

Kaitlyn Nicol

Social Sciences (tie)

Stephanie Domingo

Sapolnach Prompiengchai

Sciences

Pionie Kwok

2021-2022

Humanities (tie)

Noah Faberman

Zekai Zhao

Social Sciences (tie)

Blessing Nkennor

Sapolnach Prompiengchai

Sciences (tie)

Jasmin Khela

Aditi Bansal, Ayuni Weerakoon Ratnayake, Natalie Wong, Sapolnach Prompiengchai and Theluckshan Saseetharan

2020-2021

Humanities

Jeffrey Liu

Social Sciences

Rajpreet Sidhu

Sciences

Jane Ching Lam Lui

2019-2020

Humanities

Sylvie Stojanovski

Social Sciences

Ali Javeed

Sciences

Angela Zavaleta Bernuy

2018-2019

Humanities

Judy Perpose

Sciences

Praveen Jayarajan

2017-2018

Humanities

Karen Wang

Social Sciences

Olivia Rennie

Sciences

Nikolai Meek

2016-2017

Garima Shah, Neuroscience

Monica Shah and Abdulwahab Sidiqi, Centre for French and Linguistics

Janessa Tam, Centre for French and Linguistics

2015-2016

Nishita Agrawal, Management

Cherrie (Yan Ning) Kwok, Psychology

Swara Shah, Biological Sciences

UTSC Undergraduate Research and Creative Prize

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