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Mentorship is an engineering input
A mentorship award recognises the work that helps graduate researchers persist.

The context
Where the work begins
Dr. Catherine Burns has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Dr. Suning Wang Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentorship, presented by CAGS.
The takeaway
What follows
The official Waterloo report places this work in engineering / mentorship. It is a source-linked brief for alumni readers; the source page remains the authority for names, dates and outcomes.
Source reporting
Mentorship is an engineering input
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