Awards and accolades: June 2022
04 July 2022
STUDENT SUCCESS
Congratulations to all of our Spring 2022 ALES graduates! We were delighted to celebrate convocation with an in-person ceremony for the first time in two years. If you missed the ceremony and would like to watch it, check out the U of A convocation page. Meet some of our ALES graduates below.
Read about Bashar Aldyab and Ahmad Al Hariri who each graduated with a bachelor of science in nutrition and food science, with a specialization in dietetics.
Read about Fergus McSween who graduated with a bachelor of science in forestry.
Read about Hannah Cunningham, who graduated with a master of science in environmental sociology.
Read about Kennedy Mitchell, who graduated with a bachelor of science in forestry.
Congratulations to all of the ALES students who recently completed a Certificate in Sustainability through the U of A Sustainability Council. This year, 68 students — many of them studying in the Faculty of ALES — graduated with the certificate. In their final projects, these students investigated the potential for greenhouses to solve food insecurity, how a lack of identification can lead to social exclusion and sustainable fencing for our ungulate populations, among other projects.
FACULTY EXCELLENCE
Congratulations to Carolina Archundia-Herrera in the Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science who was recently named a 2022 Women & Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI) Postdoctoral Fellowship recipient. Her research focuses on how supplements affect pregnancy and birth outcomes. Read more here.
Congratulations to professor Rhonda Bell and research associate Richard Oster in the Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science for their work as part of the Maskwacis Maternal, Family and Child Wellbeing Research Group which recently won an award for Excellence in Community-Campus Partnership.
Congratulations to professor and associate (academic) Nat Kav who was recently named a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Fellows of these royal societies have achieved distinction in the fields of biological research, teaching or the application of biology and have made an impact in the field of chemical sciences.
A number of our faculty members were recently awarded research grants from federal granting agencies.
- Professor Debra Davidson in the Department of Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada insight grant for the project "EMOTIONAL pathways to climate action".
- Professor Malinda Thilakarathna in the Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science was awarded a New Frontiers in Research Fund for the project "Plasma-assisted biological nitrogen fixation and protein production in pulses". Collaborators on the project include professor Roopesh Syamaladevi and professor Lingyun Chen, also in the Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science.
- Professor Aman Ullah in the Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science was also awarded a New Frontiers in Research Fund for the project "Towards a lipidated siRNA therapy for targeting lung cancer".
- Professor Cameron Carlyle in the Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science was awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada discovery grant for the project "Evolution and ecology".
- Professor Sylvie Quideau in the Department of Renewable Resources was also awarded an NSERC discovery grant for the project "Deep under cover: a pedological perspective on soil carbon".
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