{"id":12871,"date":"2022-10-25T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=12871"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:45","slug":"dr-lenore-fahrig-chancellors-professor-has-won-the-gerhard-herzberg-canada-gold-medal-for-science-and-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2022\/dr-lenore-fahrig-chancellors-professor-has-won-the-gerhard-herzberg-canada-gold-medal-for-science-and-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Lenore Fahrig, Chancellor\u2019s Professor has won the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Dr. Lenore Fahrig, Chancellor\u2019s Professor has won the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/lenore-fahrig\/\">Dr. Fahrig<\/a>, Chancellor\u2019s Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Biology<\/a>, has won the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/Prizes-Prix\/Herzberg-Herzberg\/Index-Index_eng.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering<\/a>, which is considered the country\u2019s top science and engineering honour and is given annually to an individual whose body of work has shown consistent excellence and impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe could not be prouder of Dr. Fahrig receiving this extremely prestigious award, which celebrates Canada\u2019s most outstanding natural scientist,\u201d says Carleton President and Vice-Chancellor Benoit-Antoine Bacon. \u201cDr. Fahrig truly epitomizes the quality of our research at Carleton, and the impact it has on our country and our planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt feels amazing, almost surreal, to be getting this medal,\u201d says Fahrig, whose&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.carleton.ca\/story\/carletons-highly-cited-researchers-lenore-fahrigs-habitat-fragmentation-research-updates-understanding-of-biodiversity-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trailblazing work<\/a>&nbsp;on wildlife habitat fragmentation and conservation has reshaped the way that protected areas are designed. \u201cIt makes me think about my research path, going right back to my MSc at Carleton 40 years ago. As a young student then, I certainly never imagined it would eventually come to this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering is awarded annually to an individual whose body of work, conducted in Canada in the natural sciences for engineering, has demonstrated persistent excellence and influence. to read <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/lenore-fahrig\/\">Dr. Fahrig&#8217;s<\/a> profile please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/Prizes-Prix\/Herzberg-Herzberg\/Profiles-Profils\/Fahrig-Fahrig_eng.asp\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to learn more about the award and read the full story, please <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/top-canadian-science-and-engineering-prizes-for-carleton-researchers\/\">click here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations Dr. Fahrig!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Fahrig, Chancellor\u2019s Professor in the Department of Biology, has won the&nbsp;Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, which is considered the country\u2019s top science and engineering honour and is given annually to an individual whose body of work has shown consistent excellence and impact. \u201cWe could not be prouder of Dr. Fahrig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12874,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions\/12874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}