Her awards and honours include;
* 1978 Royal Society of Chemistry Undergraduate Award
* 2010 Canadian Society for Chemistry Rio Tinto Alcan Award for Electrochemistry
* 2011 International Battery Association Award
* 2011 Royal Society of Canada Fellowship
* 2012 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Distinguished Women in Chemistry
* 2013 Society of German Chemists August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann Lectureship
* 2014 Web of Science Most Highly Cited Researchers
* 2014 Thomson Reuters World's Most Influential Scientific Minds
* 2015 Officer of the Order of Canada
* 2017 University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award
* 2018 Thomson Reuters Most Highly Cited Researchers
* 2019 Chemical Institute of Canada Medal
*2020 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society