A recap of some of the recent accolades and achievements received by our campus community members.
Congratulations to the following:
Athletics
- Madison Willan, Women's Hockey Student-Athlete — captured gold at 2023 Winter FISU Games
- Golden Bears Wresting and Pandas Wrestling — captured Canada West Wrestling titles
College of Health Sciences
- School of Dentistry — U of A ranked second in lists of best school for dental in Canada in 2023
- Anastassia Voronova, assistant professor — recipient of 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship.
College of Natural and Applied Sciences
- Hyo-Jick Choi, assistant professor — recipient of CIHR Project Grand – Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research
- Hasan Uludag, professor — recipient of CIHR Bridge Funding
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Bank of Canada Governor's Challenge team (Selam Abraham, James Davison, Vivek Gala, Kayla Stephanson, Aishwarya Tyagi), undergraduate students — winners of the Bank of Canada Governor's Challenge
- The Chinese Language Program (including Kuo-Chan Sun, Xinhui Liu, Qian Tang, Yan Wang, Anton Wierenga, Haiyan Xie, and Li Yang) — recipient of Faculty of Arts Unit Teaching Award
- Department of Sociology, Centre for Criminological Research — U of A ranked second in lists of best school for criminology in Canada in 2023
- Alex Averbuch, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial postdoctoral fellow — named a finalist for the Shevchenko National Prize
- Junko Davis, assistant lecturer — recipient of Faculty of Arts Academic Teaching Staff Award
- Walter Davis, associate professor — recipient of Faculty of Arts Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship Award
- Wayne DeFehr, full lecturer — recipient of Faculty of Arts Academic Teaching Staff Award
- Keighlagh Donovan, graduate student — recipient of Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching Award
- Emily Legleitner, graduate student — recipeint of Frogman's Graduate Student Scholarship (University of Iowa)
- Clara Iwasaki, associate professor — recipient of Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award (Humanities)
- Claudia Kost, associate professor — recipient of Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award (Humanities)
- Marta-Marika Urbanik, assistant professor — recipient of Kathleen W. Klawe Prize for Excellence in Teaching of Large Classes
- Fabio Morabito, assistant professor — recipient of Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award - Early Achievement
- Justin Pritchard, academic teaching staff — recipient of Faculty of Arts Academic Teaching Staff Award
- Terri Tomsky, associate professor — recipient of Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award (Humanities)
- Avontay Williams, graduate student — recipient of Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching Award and Graduate Student Association Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award
- Li Yang, associate lecturer — recipient of Faculty of Arts Helena Fracchia International Teaching Award
Facilities & Operations
- University of Alberta Protective Services — recipients of letter of commendation from the Edmonton Police Service
University Services & Finance
- Michael Spaling, team lead — awarded Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Medal