Community Congrats: March 2023

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

Congratulations to the following:

Athletics

• Jordan Canham and Cam Kern, student-atheletes — U SPORTS Men's Volleyball Major Award winners
• Claire Signatovich, student-athelete — 2023 U SPORTS Women's Basketball Defensive Player of the Year
• Pandas Curling Team — 2023 U SPORTS Champions
• Pandas Wrestling Team — 2023 U SPORTS Champions
• President's Trophy Recipients — 19 student-athletes and three head coaches were honoured with the President's Trophy Award

Augustana

• Sam Nawrot, student-athelete — Gold Medalist (Men's 600m) – 2023 ACAC Indoor Track Championship
• Vikings Women's Curling Team — 2023 CCAA National Champions

Native Studies

• Tanya Harnett, professor — awarded Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Medal
• Chelsea Vowel, assistant lecturer — honored at the "Âpihtawikosisân Iskwêwak: Honouring Métis Matriarchs" awards ceremony

College of Health Sciences

• Tahreem Asrar, graduate student — recipient of the LKSIoV Graduate Studies Entrance Award
• Xavier Clemente-Casares, assistant professor — recipient of CIHR Fall 2022 Project Funding
• Maia Finch, graduate student — recipient of the LKSIoV Graduate Studies Entrance Award
• Malcolm Forster, graduate student — recipient of the LKSIoV Graduate Studies Entrance Award
• Madison Granoski, graduate student — recipient of the LKSIoV Graduate Studies Entrance Award
• Justine Kniert, doctoral student — recipient of the LKSIoV Doctoral Student Award
• Qi Feng Lin, doctoral student — recipient of the LKSIoV Doctoral Student Award
• Sarah Mansour, assistant professor — recipient of the LKSIoV Graduate Studies Entrance Award
• Salima Meherali, assistant professor — recipient of the 2023 Graduate Student Supervisor Award
• Vanessa Meier-Stephenson,  assistant professor, recipient of the 2023 Peter Lougheed Research Award - Bridge Funding for Early Career Researchers
• Maryam Rezaeifar, graduate student — recipient of the LKSIoV Graduate Studies Entrance Award
• Alexa Thompson, graduate research assistant — recipient of the 2022 Izaak Walton Killiam Memorial Scholarship
• Michael Woodside, associate professor — recipient of CIHR Fall 2022 Project Funding

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

• Future Energy Systems outreach and engagement team — earned the 2022 STEAM Green Award from Science Rendezvous
• Science FUNday — returned in-person for the first time since 2020, welcoming nearly 2,500 parents and children to campus to explore the wonders of science in a sold-out, record-breaking attendance event
• Jane Batcheller, Faculty Service Officer — recipient of the 2023 Graduate Student Supervisor Award
• Gavin Bradley, assistant lecturer — won the 2023 Bridges of Struga International Poetry Award
• Brenda Parlee, professor — appointed as one of three co-chairs of the UNESCO awarded World Chair, Collaboration for Indigenous-Led Biodiversity Conservation, Health and Well-being
• Rebecca Probst, Ethan Franz, Marlow Pfiefer (Business) and Omer Syed, graduate students — placed second overall for Best Engineering Solution and won Best Team Chemistry in the Engineering and Commerce Case Competition
• Peggy St. Jacques, assistant professor — listed as one of 25 Canadian researchers who won top international prizes by Universities Canada for her 2022 Sloan Fellowship.
• Lisa Stein, professor & associate chair research — elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

• Casey Caines, graduating student — earned a Supreme Court of Canada clerkship
• Timothy Caulfield, professor — is one of the top 10 Health Care Innovators on the 2023 Maclean’s Power List
• Hadley Friedland, professor — received a 2023 Killam Accelerator Research Award
• Royston Greenwood, professor — ranked 16 in Canada under Business and Management in the Research.com rankings
• Andy Knight, professor and Provost Fellow in Black Excellence and Leadership — awarded Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Medal
• Randall Morck, professor — ranked 1 in Canada in Economics and Finance in the Research.com rankings
• Temitope Oriola, professor — received Dorothy Killam Fellowship
• Stephen Raitz, second-year student — received inaugural Charles Thompson Jr. Local Government Law Scholarship, presented by the International Municipal Lawyers Association
• Bonnie Stelmach, professor — submission to the Research Partnerships Program’s call for proposals selected to receive a conditional grant
• Evelyn Steinhauer, professor — selected for the Rideau Hall Foundation's National Advisory Committee on Indigenous Teacher Education
• Kisha Supernant, professor — received Dorothy Killam Fellowship