Community Congrats: September 2023

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

Congratulations to the following:

College of Health Sciences

• Jason Acker, professor — Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow
  
• Aminu Bello, professor — Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow
  
• Toshifumi Yokota, professor — Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow
• Hannah O'Rourke, assistant professor — U of A Alumni Award, Alumni Horizon Award
• Sebastian Straube, professor — Award of Merit, Canadian Board of Occupational Medicine
  

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

• Tarek Nigim, postdoctoral fellow — TWA Energy Influencer 2023
• Carla Prado, professor — Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow
• Team Alpha of the U of A Forest Society, undergraduate students — Winners of the 2023 CIF-IFC Student Quiz Bowl
• Ming Zuo, professor — Elected to Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society, Class of 2023

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

• Liam Monaghan, graduate student — 2023 Sharon Pollock Prize
  
• Temitope Oriola, professor — Gerald L. Gall Human Rights Award from the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights

Facilities & Operations

• The Diwan at the Aga Khan Garden — International Architecture Award, The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and The Chicago Atheneum - Museum of Architecture and Design

Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

• Elder Francis Whiskeyjack, First People's House — New southeast public high school named Elder Dr. Francis Whiskeyjack School by Edmonton Public Schools