Collaborative SRC Award Recipients
The Collaborative Scholarly, Research, and Creative (SRC) Award is presented annually to an individual researcher who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and excellence in collaborative SRC initiatives. This award recognizes impactful SRC projects undertaken with multidisciplinary or multi-institutional teams, including partnerships with industry, academia, healthcare, or professional societies. Eligible recipients are those whose collaborative efforts have facilitated positive, measurable change and significant impact within their respective fields.
Award recipient(s) will receive a certificate of recognition and a monetary award of $2,000 as a one-time payment (subject to applicable deductions).
Key criteria: Scholarly, research and creative activity, collaboration
2026 recipient
Lesley Campbell
Faculty of Science
Dr. Lesley Campbell leads national, industry-focused collaborations that enable year-round berry production in controlled environments. She co-led the Shepherd Phase of Growing for the Future, uniting 91看片网, the University of Windsor, and industry partners to integrate sensor-based crop monitoring, airflow engineering, and pollination automation for continuous raspberry production. She then helped scale this work into a $5 M Pilot Farm with industry partners and is coordinating the multi-institutional CFI proposal CEA-LINK (with KPU, Windsor, Ottawa, and numerous industry collaborators) to establish Canada鈥檚 controlled-environment agriculture network. Her leadership delivers scientific innovation, commercialization pathways, and new food-security capacity for Canada.
Past recipients
- Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan
Ted Rogers School of Management - Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Elsayed Elbeshbishy
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Michael Kolios
Faculty of Science Department of Physics
- Julie James
School of Child and Youth Care, Faculty of Community Services
- Ebrahim Bagheri
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science - Sharareh Taghipour
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Frank Russo
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
- Josephine Wong
Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services
- Catherine Beauchemin
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science - Anatoliy Gruzd
Global Management Studies, Ted Rogers School of Management
- Judy Finlay
School of Child and Youth Care, Faculty of Community Services