/ en /celebrates/natalie-enright-jerger-awarded-125000-mclean-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Natalie Enright Jerger awarded $125,000 McLean Award</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2019-09-04T16:49:11-04:00" title="Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 16:49" class="datetime">Wed, 09/04/2019 - 16:49</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/electrical-and-computer-engineering" hreflang="en">Electrical and Computer Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/women-stem" hreflang="en">Women in STEM</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/16439243028_cbbf3d9ca8_o.jpg" width="1140" height="760" alt="Photo of Natalie Enright Jerger"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(Photo by Roberta Baker)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Natalie Enright Jerger,&nbsp;</strong>a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, is this year's winner of the $125,000 McLean Award.</p> <p>Funded jointly by the&nbsp;Connaught Fund and the McLean endowment, the award recognizes early-career researchers and supports outstanding basic research in the fields of computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering sciences and the theory and methods of statistics.</p> <p>Enright Jerger is considered a&nbsp;worldwide expert in “on-chip” networks, her work contributing to the efficiency and speed of everything from smartwatches to sprawling data centres.&nbsp;She's also a big proponent of teaching and students, and an advocate for greater diversity in engineering fields.</p> <p>“Being able to support more students and build my research group through the award is really fantastic,” Enright Jerger says.</p> <h3><a href="/news/help-her-students-u-t-researcher-and-mclean-award-winner-building-future-computer-architecture">Read the <em>����TV News</em> story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 04 Sep 2019 20:49:11 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 160106 at