Awards and accolades: Winter 2025
8 January 2025
The faculty is proud to have contributed to the university’s rise in agricultural sciences ranking to first in Canada and 14th in the world according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
STUDENT SUCCESS
Congratulations to Agricultural and Resource Economics MSc students, Charlene Green, Anusher Khumorikov, Sadik Mahmud and Dipa Sultana (REES), who won the IFAMA 2024 Venture Building Challenge.
Ehsan Feizollahi's research on decontaminating wheat and barley with cold plasma, supervised by M. S. Roopesh (AFNS), was recognized by Food Safety magazine as one of the top 10 food safety innovations in 2024.
The following scholarships and awards were recently granted to ALES graduate students:
- Camila Estefani Orsso received an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship
- Arturo Macias received an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Abhijeet Pathy became a Vanier Scholar
- Andu Berha became a Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) 2024-25 Doctoral Fellows
This year's ALES Graduate Thesis Awards were given to:
- PhD: Pamela Klassen and Juli Wang (AFNS), and Rashaduz Zaman (RENR)
- MSc: Sumedha Nallanthighal (AFNS) and Nicole Lau (RENR)
Congratulations to ALES student-athletes who were recognized as 2024 Academic All-Canadians:
- Rae-Anne Gill (Pandas Cross-Country)
- Ella Heinrich (Pandas Cross-Country)
- Madison Ford (Pandas Cross-Country/Track & Field)
- Taylor Hebert (Pandas Track & Field)
FACULTY EXCELLENCE
The latest Canada Research Chair (CRC) announcement named Carla Prado (AFNS) a Tier 1 Chair, and renewed Michael Gänzle (AFNS) as a Tier 1 Chair and Caroline Richard (AFNS) as a Tier 2 Chair.
We are proud of our award-winning faculty members who were recognized in recent months, including:
- Aman Ullah (AFNS) was recognized at the U of A Innovation Awards for his spinoff company, ZAFA Biorefinery Inc.
- Vic Adamowicz (REES) was announced a fellow of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Association (CREEA), as well as a 2025 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Fellow
- Jean Buteau (AFNS) awarded the Researcher of the Year from the Alberta Diabetes Foundation
- This year’s AStech Awards recognized Jane Batcheller (HE), David Bressler (AFNS), Patricia Dolez (HE) and Sandeep Agrawal (ALI).
- ALES recipients at Celebrate 2024 included John Basrab (AFNS), Graham Plastow (AFNS), Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez (REES) and Carla Prado (AFNS).
- The Celebration of Service recognized milestones for the following ALES faculty: Walter Dixon (AFNS) 35 years, Janusz Zwiazek (RENR) 35 years and Anne M. Naeth (RENR) 40 years.
Department-awarded teachers of the year
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