Finally: the long-anticipated return of Community Congrats!
The U of A community has been busy in our absence. Over the past weeks their achievements have attracted praise and recognition in many forms: awards, fellowships, prizes, scholarships and more. So, congratulations to the following:
- Simaan Abourizk, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering - received the APEGA Excellence in Education Award
- Michael Aherne, Mentor, Peter Lougheed Leadership College - received the 2018 UAlberta Advocate Award
- Margaret-Ann Armour, Associate Dean (Diversity), Faculty of Science - inducted into Edmonton's Community Service Hall of Fame
- Lorne Babiuk, Former Vice-President (Research) - received the 2018 John G. Fitzgerald Award from the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, PhD Student, Department of English and Film Studies, Faculty of Arts - won the Griffin Poetry Prize, an Indigenous Voices Award, and the Robert Kroetsch Award for his collection, This Wound is a World; received a Trudeau Scholarship from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
- Barbara Billingsley, Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies), Faculty of Law - received the 2018 Distinguished Service Award for Legal Scholarship from the Canadian Bar Association (Alberta Branch) and the Law Society of Alberta
- Grace Cleveland, Student, Faculty of Law - received the Hon. Cecilia Johnstone Equality Award
- Norma Dunning, PhD Student, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Faculty of Education - won the Danuta Gleed Award for her collection, Annie Muktuk and Other Stories
- Carole Estabrooks, Professor, Faculty of Nursing - received a 2018 J Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research, and inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame
- Nadele Flynn, PhD Student, Department of Renewable Resources, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences - received a 2018 Polar Knowledge Canada Northern Resident Scholarship
- Fraser Forbes, Dean, Faculty of Engineering - named a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
- Michael Frishkopf, Professor and Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Faculty of Arts - received the 2018 Community Scholar Award
- Lise Gotell, Professor, Department of Women's & Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts - named the new Landrex Distinguished Professor
- Philip Halloran, Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - received a 2018 J Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research
- Joanna Harrington, Professor, Faculty of Law - received a 2018 CALT Award for Academic Excellence
- Garrett Harris, Graduate Student, Faculty of Science - awarded best poster at the International Kimberlite Conference
- Bill Hodgetts, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine - received the President's Award for outstanding contributions to the Canadian Academy of Audiology
- Glen Jickling, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - received the Michael S. Pessin Stroke Leadership Prize from the American Academy of Neurology
- Brittany Johnson, PhD Student, Department of English and Film Studies, Faculty of Arts - received the AWA Bente Roed Graduate Student Award
- Mijung Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Elementary Education, Faculty of Education - together with Suzanna Wong, won the International Science Education Conference Best Paper Award
- Glen Loppnow, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science - named a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada
- Robert Marquette, Student, Faculty of Law - won the Law Society of Alberta President's Award
- Andrew Morgan, Graduate Student, Department of Elementary Education, Faculty of Education - received the faculty's 2018 Graduate Teaching Award
- Paul Paton, Dean, Faculty of Law - named to the 2018 International Directory of Global Leaders and Influencers in Legal Business
- James Pinfold, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science - received a 2018 Killam Prize
- Prem Pokharel, PhD Candidate, Department of Renewable Resources, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences - won the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) Proquest STEM Award
- James Shapiro, Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - received Diabetes Canada's Lifetime Achievement Award
- William Shultz, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts - received a Trudeau Scholarship from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
- Malinda S Smith, Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts - named a 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow
- Michael Steele, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences - received the Cargill Animal Nutrition Young Scientist Award from the American Dairy Science Association
- Kim TallBear, Associate Professor and CRC in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Environment - named a 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow
- Janice Williamson, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Faculty of Arts - received a 2018 Academic Woman of the Year Award
- Suzanna Wong, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Education - together with Mijung Kim, won the International Science Education Conference Best Paper Award
- Michael Woodside, Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science - awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
- AlbertaSat - received the 2018 Community Leaders Award
- Alberta Diabetes Institute - received a CASE Circle of Excellence Award and two IABC Capital Awards for the Portraits of Diabetes campaign
- Bruce Peel Special Collections Library - received a 2018 RBMS Leab Exhibition Award for Tinctor's Foul Treatise (curated by Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins, and François V. Pageau)
- Parkland Institute, Faculty of Arts - received a $1 million gift to its endowment fund from an Alberta donor who asked to remain anonymous
- Research at the Intersections of Gender Team - composed of professors Sara Dorow, Lois Harder, Nat Hurley, and Susanne Luhmann, the team collectively received a 2018 Academic Woman of the Year Award
Congratulations are also in order for:
- The 2018 Blended Learning Awards recipients
- The 2018 Kule Research Cluster Grants recipients
- The 2018 EDI Award winners
- The Killam Annual Professorship recipients
- The U of A's latest Canada Research Chairs
- The winners of the 2018 Images of Research contest
- The 3MT UAlberta Finalists
- The outstanding student athletes recognized at the Green and Gold Awards
- The June award recipients in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
- The many award recipients at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine's Winter Gala
- The award winners at the Faculty of Science's 2018 Celebration of Excellence in Teaching and Research
- Our award recipients from the Western Canada Undergraduate Chemistry Conference
- The gold medalists from the Faculty of Science's Class of '18
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If you know of a U of A colleague who has recently won an award or any other honours and you would like to see their achievement celebrated in the next edition of Community Congrats! please send their info to blog@ualberta.ca.blog@ualberta.ca.