Ingrid Johnsrude wins
Steacie Fellowship

NSERC Photo

At a March ceremony in Ottawa, Prime ­Minister Stephen Harper presented Queen’s Psychology professor Ingrid Johnsrude, Artsci’89, with an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship.

The prestigious annual award, which is presented by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), serves to enhance the ­careers of outstanding and highly promising university faculty who are earning a strong international reputation for their research.

Johnsrude, an internationally renowned expert in the cognitive neuroscience of communication and hearing, is one of six Canadian researchers to receive a Steacie Fellowship in 2009. Also on hand for the presentation ceremony was NSERC president and former Queen’s Vice-Principal (Research) Suzanne Fortier.