Community Congrats: March 2024

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

Congratulations to the following:

Athletics

• Golden Bears Volleyball Team, student-athletes — 2024 U SPORTS Champions
• Pandas Curling Team, student-athletes — 2024 U SPORTS Champions
• Isaac Heslinga, student-athlete — 2024 U SPORTS Men's Volleyball Player of the Year
• Abby Guezen, student-athlete — 2024 U SPORTS Rookie of the Year
• Claire Signatovich, student-athlete — 2024 U SPORTS Defensive Player of the Year
• Evan Essapa, student-athlete — 2024 U SPORTS Student-Athlete Community Service Award

Augustana

• Augustana Faculty, faculty — Gold winner of the ZTCup for the faculty with highest proportion of ZTC class sections in Winter 2024 and winner of the ZTCup for the faculty with the largest increase in ZTC class sections from Winter 2023 to Winter 2024
• Chloe Funnell, undergraduate student — bronze medal, women’s 1500m race, 2024 ACAC Indoor Track Championships
• Sidney Cusack, undergraduate student — silver medal, women’s 300m race, 2024 ACAC Indoor Track Championships bronze medal, women’s 600m race, 2024ACAC Indoor Track Championships named to the ACAC All-Confernce team for Indoor Track
• Jhecelle Borile, Lara Birkill, Sidney Cusack and Chloe Funnell, undergraduate students — bronze medal, women’s 4x400m, 2024 ACAC Indoor Track Championships
• Jack Hamly, undergraduate student — named to the 2023-24 ACAC All-Conference Men’s Hockey Second Team
• Shae Boyes, undergraduate student — CCAA Player of the Year

College of Health Sciences

• Dalton Sholter, associate clinical professor — 2024 Canadian Association for Medicine Education Certificate of Merit Award
• Vince Bain, professor — 2024 Canadian Association for the Study of the LIver Education Excellence Award
• Constantine (Dean) Karvellas, professor — 2024 Canadian Association for the Study of the Visiting Professorship Award

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

• Faculty of ALES, faculty — Silver winner of the ZTCup for the faculty with second highest proportion of ZTC class sections in Winter 2024
• 2024 U of A Range Team: Damon Bectell, Sarah Johnson, Jordan Perron and Katy Sopotyk, undergraduate students — 2nd Place Undergraduate Range Management Exam and 3rd Place Plant Identification Exam at the Society for Range Management annual competition
• Damon Bectell, undergraduate student — 3rd Place in the Undergraduate Range Management Examination (URME) and 1st Place Combined Award at the Society for Range Management annual competition
• Jordan Perron, undergraduate student — 1st Place Plant Identification Exam and 2nd Place Combined Award at the Society for Range Management annual competition
• Hongbo Zeng, faculty — American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow
• Marie-Cécile Piro, associate professor — 2024 Dorothy Killam Fellow
• Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert, professor — 2024 Lifetime Contribution to Autoimmunity Award
• André McDonald, associate vice-president (Strategic Research Initiatives and Performance), professor — 2024 Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) Fellowship Award

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

• Xuege Wu, MA student — Graduate Student Research Assistant Award
• Susan Brown, adjunct professor — Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Roberto Busa Prize
• William Street, professor — Lifetime Membership Award from the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA)

Office of the Vice-President (External Relations)

• Kalyna Hennig Epp, communications associate — Rising Star Awards, Case District VIII Award