The challenges of the past year have been immense, and U of A IT professionals met the moment incredibly well. IT is often behind the scenes - students, faculty and staff rely on an intricate web of networks, servers, firewalls, and applications. Very literally, thousands of people use U of A IT to safely connect and share information every day. The annual IT Awards provide an opportunity to bring our work out from behind the scenes, celebrate the amazing work of U ofA IT professionals and say thank you very visibly and publicly.
If you know an individual or team who has demonstrated excellence in information technology, we encourage you to celebrate their efforts by sending in a nomination.
IT Awards celebrate efforts of the University of Alberta's talented information technology faculty, staff, and students in the following five award categories:
IT Distinguished Career Award
The IT Distinguished Career Award recognizes one support staff or academic member for their outstanding contributions to advancing the U of A's IT agenda. The successful nominee will be a current or recently retired employee with an outstanding IT career of at least 15 years at the U of A, and they will have demonstrated leadership that had a major impact on a unit or across the University.
IT Ambassador Award
The IT Ambassador Award recognizes one support staff or academic member for outstanding technology leadership and contributions. The successful nominee will have demonstrated exceptional leadership to their department, faculty or unit and made notable IT contributions to the University community.
IT Innovation Award
The IT Innovation Award recognizes one support staff or academic member and one team for their innovative use of hardware and/or software technology to successfully deploy a major IT project with significant impact to research, teaching, administration and/or the University experience. The successful nominees will have made a significant impact to a department, faculty, unit, or to the University.
IT Client Service Award
The IT Client Service Award recognizes one non-academic staff member and one team for providing a high quality of service to a faculty, unit, or department.
IT Unsung Hero Award
The IT Unsung Hero Award recognizes a non-academic staff member who has made a significant and largely unrecognized contribution to IT at the U of A. The successful nominee will have made an important, often uncelebrated improvement to the quality of the IT environment offered by a department, faculty or unit, or to the University overall.
Nominations are due May 14. To learn more, visit uab.ca/itawards.