Fanny Chevalier has been made a knight in the prestigious Order of Academic Palms (l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques), France’s national order recognizing exemplary services to education and culture. Coincidentally, her last name translates to “knight” in French, so this was destined to happen. You can read more about the award and her contributions here.

The Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator team, led by University of Toronto Assistant Professor Joseph Jay Williams, has won the $500,000 (USD) grand prize in the XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge, a global competition to modernize, accelerate, and improve the identification of effective learning tools and processes. The team also includes graduate students Ilya Musabirov, Mohi Reza, Pan Chen, and Harsh Kumar, as well as collaborators from Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina State University. Learn more about the team, the competition, and their project in this article.

The faculty of Arts & Science has named Alec Jacobson as a recipient of this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award! You can read more about the award and his contributions in this article.