Community Congrats: June 2023

A recap of some of the recent accolades and achievements received by our campus community members.

Congratulations to the following:

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

• Harikrishna Rao Mohan Rao, graduate student — 2023 IEEE Systems Council James O. Gray Scholarship for Graduate Students
• Zak Kaal, graduate student — People's Choice Award in the Western Regional 3MT® Competition
• Nicolas Stiles Wilkins & Kasturi Nagesh Pai, graduate students — Best Graduate Student Paper Award, CSChE Awards
• Vinay Prasad, professor and chair — D.G. Fisher Award, CSChE Awards
• Joao Soares, professor — R.S. Jane Memorial Award, CSChE Awards
• Hani Henein, professor — MetSoc Airey Award
• Pauline Chan, Hitarth Godhani, Jenna Wong, Carris Jiang, Carmen Vung & Gloria Yap, undergraduate students — Finalist in the Marvin Tung Student Case Competition, Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology
• Simaan Abourizk, interim dean — Best Paper Award, The Construction Research Council of American Society of Civil Engineers
  

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

• Iman Mersal, associate professor — Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist
• Lauren Ross, ATEP student — RBC Indigenous Youth Scholarship
• Dinesh Rathim, associate professor, Best Paper Award, Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science
• Lia Daniels, professor — Elected CPA Fellow, 2023 Canadian Pyschological Association Awards
• Madeline Sturm, graduate student — 2023 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
• Kisha Supernant, professor — Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal
• Jessica Van Vliet, professor — Distinguished Member in the Counselling Psychology section of the Canadian Psychological Association
• Carla Peck, professor — Outstanding Achievement Award, Children's Identity & Citizenship European Association (CiCea)
• Trish Jagger, PhD candidate — Graduate Student Research Excellence Award for the Best Paper in the Media, Culture, and Learning Special Interest Group (SIG), 2023 American Education Research Association Annual Meeting
• Emily Block, Ross Bradford, Dawn McCoy, Sarah Moore, Onita Blankenfeldt, Will Randall, Aditya Kaul, András Marosi, Christophe Voegely, Jason Lee, Erin Marshall & David Rusnacik, professors — Donald and Margaret MacKenzie Undergraduate Teaching Awards for Teaching Excellence
• Diane McKen, assistant department manager — Faculty of Arts Administrative Leadership Award
• Fabio Morabito, assistant professor — Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award (Early Achievement)
• Justin Pritchard, career coach and sessional instructor — Faculty of Arts Academic Teaching Staff Award
• Heunjung Lee, PhD student — Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching Award

College of Health Sciences

• Holly Mathias, graduate research assistant fellowship — Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholar
• Janet Lam, research IT advisor — IT Client Service Award (Individual)
• Jamie Stewart and the Learning Design Studio — IT Innovation Award
• Susan Neufeld, assistant teaching professor — Teaching Professor Award for Innovation, Faculty of Nursing Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Awards)
• Salima Meherali, assistant professor — Teaching Award, Faculty of Nursing Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Awards
• Helena Schaefer, assistant teaching professor — Committee’s Choice Award for Excellence and Innovation (as part of the Faculty of Nursing Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Awards)
• Kristy Hermann, assistant teaching professor — Teaching Professor Award for Excellence, Faculty of Nursing Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Awards
• Nicole Harley, teaching professor and assistant lecturer — Teaching Innovation Award, Faculty of Nursing Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Awards
• Erika Rodning, graduate student — Dean’s Gold Medal Award, School of Public Health
• Brittany Molna, graduate student — Dean's Gold Medal Award, School of Public Health
• Landon Turlock, graduate student — Dean's Gold Medal Award, School of Public Health
• Jacob Hambrook, postdoctoral fellow — Dean's Gold Medal Award, School of Public Health

Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

• Florence Glanfield, Vice-Provost (Indigenous Programming and Research) — Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal
• Tom Hunter, collections assitant — Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal 

Office of the Vice-President (University Services & Finance)

• Sherri Honeychurch, senior IT partner — IT Ambassador Award
• Jason Ross, senior automation solutions analyst — IT Ambassador Award
• Christianne Ussher, learning space support analyst — IT Client Service Award (Individual)
• Endpoint Evergreen Project Team — IT Client Service Award (Team)
• Brandon Boyko, information technology support analyst — IT Unsung Hero Award
• Raymond Richmond, manager, digital network and data centre services — IT Distinguished Career Award