Professor Molly Shoichet created The Dorothy Shoichet Women Faculty in Science Award of Excellence in honour of her mother, an honorary degree recipient. This fund provides teaching-release-time funds to pre-tenure/early tenured female professors in any of the physical or life sciences, computer sciences, statistical sciences or mathematics within the Faculty of Arts & Science.

Professor Miriam Diamond will focus this time to intensely pursue her experimental physics work on dark matter direct detection searches in the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment at SNOLAB. Along with this, Prof. Diamond will pursue an ambitious R&D program for next-generation dark matter detectors.

Professor Diamond will optimize and fabricate new prototypes, and operate them in a test facility in her research lab at the McLennan Physical Laboratories, in preparation for eventually running them at SNOLAB. This award will help provide her with critical time that is crucial for these research endeavors.

More on the award: https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/research-supports-services/awards-nominations#dorothy-shoichet