6 Bears and Pandas teams won regional championships in the past weekThis week, the University of Alberta is celebrating 6 regional championship titles, recipients of the John R. Evans Leaders Fund and Kule Cluster Grants, and more! So, congrats to the following:
• Tyson Baillie, Golden Bears Hockey - named Canada West Hockey Rookie of the Year (M)
• Meg Casault, Pandas Volleyball - named Canada West Player of the Year
• Leith Deacon, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science - received a Kule Cluster Grant for his project Boom/Bust in Canada: Tempering Canadian Experiences of Resource Dependency Boom/Bust in Canada: Tempering Canadian Experiences of Resource Dependency
• Sara Dorow, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts - member of a research team that received a Kule Cluster Grant for the interdisciplinary project, Building Research at the Intersections of Gender Building Research at the Intersections of Gender
• Laurie Eisler, Head Coach, Pandas Volleyball - named Canada West Coach of the Year
• Gerhard Ens, Professor, Department of History and Classics, Faculty of Arts - named a finalist for the 2017 Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences for the book, From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries
• Michael Frishkopf, Professor, Faculties of Medicine & Dentistry and Arts (Music) - received a Kule Cluster Grant for his proposal, Deep Learning for Sound Recognition Deep Learning for Sound Recognition
• Kennedy Ganser, Pandas Hockey - named Canada West Hockey Rookie of the Year (F)
• Adam Gaudry, Assistant Professor, Faculties of Native Studies and Arts (Political Science) - received a Kule Cluster Grant for his project, Land-based learning in Teetl'it Zheh: A University-First Nation Bush Camp Partnership Land-based learning in Teetl'it Zheh: A University-First Nation Bush Camp Partnership
• Mamadou Gueye, Golden Bears Basketball - named Athlete of the Week
• Lois Harder, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts - member of a research team that received a Kule Cluster Grant for the interdisciplinary project, Building Research at the Intersections of Gender Building Research at the Intersections of Gender
• Natasha Hurley, Associate Professor, Departments of English and Film Studies and Women's & Gender Studies, faculty of Arts - member of a research team that received a Kule Cluster Grant for the interdisciplinary project, Building Research at the Intersections of Gender Building Research at the Intersections of Gender
• Susanne Luhmann, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Women's & Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts - member of a research team that received a Kule Cluster Grant for the interdisciplinary project, Building Research at the Intersections of Gender Building Research at the Intersections of Gender
• On February 28, the federal government announced more than $2 million in research infrastructure funding for 14 projects at the U of A through the Canada Foundation for Innovation's John R. Evans Leaders Fund. Congratulations to the following researchers:
- Hyo-Jick Choi, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- Duane Froese, Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science
- Todd Lowary, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
- Sahar Pirooz Azad, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- Sarah Styler, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
- Martin Barczyk, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- Craig Chapman, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation
- Tom Hobman, Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
- Rouslan Krechetnikov, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Science
- Vladimir Michaelis, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
- Mohtada Sadrzadeh, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- Dominic Sauvageau, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- Seyed Mahdi Tavakoli Afshari, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- Gregory Tyrrell, Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
• Golden Bears Basketball - won the Canada West Championship, the 12th in program history
• Golden Bears and Pandas Curling - won the Western Canadian University Curling Championship, both advancing to the U SPORTS Championship
• Golden Bears Hockey - won the Canada West Championship, their fourth title in five years
• Golden Bears and Pandas Tennis - won their 11th consecutive Western Canadian University regional championship
• Congratulations to all of the 2017 Faculty of Arts Teaching Award recipients!
• In the recent QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017, the U of A ranked in the top 100 in an unprecedented 25 subjects, including 10th in the world for sports-related subjects
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