Each year, the event Celebrate! Teaching.Learning.Research honors and celebrates some of the University of Alberta’s best and brightest. On November 1, the event returned to in-person, the first since 2019, gathering faculty and postdoctoral fellows who bring their research to life in the classroom and out in the world; students who have distinguished themselves in their outstanding academic and extracurricular work; and staff who provide integral support to research success.
In photos: Celebrate! 2022
November 10, 2022
Congratulations to all of the 2022 award recipients:
3M NATIONAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIP
Vijay Daniels — Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE (AAAS) FELLOW
Olav Rueppell — Biological Sciences
BANTING POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
Xinli Chen — Renewable Resources
![President Bill Flanagan welcomes and congratulates attendees.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards_-27.jpg)
![Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Dr. Verna Yiu delivers opening remarks.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards_-12.jpg)
![(from left) Provost Verna Yiu, Chancellor Peggy Garritty, U of A Students’ Union President Abner Monteiro and President Bill Flanagan.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards-27.jpg)
![Guests enjoy refreshments before the program begins.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards-134.jpg)
BMO FINANCIAL GROUP ENTRANCE CITATION
Claire Borle — Science
Chantelle Dela Cruz — Science
Sabrina Pricope — Science
BMO FINANCIAL GROUP GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
Erin Daly — Renewable Resources
Stacey Haugen — Political Science
CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FELLOW
Amit Kumar — Mechanical Engineering
CANADIAN ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES FELLOW
Satyabrata Kar — Medicine, Division of Neurology and Psychiatry
Xin-Min Li — Psychiatry
![Sabrina Pricope (left) a winner of the BMO Financial Group Entrance Citiation with Jaqueline Cowling (centre), winner of the President’s Entrance Citation and Erin Daly (right), a recipient of a BMO Financial Group Graduate Scholarship.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards-24.jpg)
![Dr. Satyabrata Kar (left), one of two Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellows, with a guest.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards_-201.jpg)
![Vice Dean of Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry Dennis Kunimoto (left), Lorne Tyrrell (centre), winner of the John G. Fitzgerald Outstanding Microbiologist Award, and and Xin-Min Li, a Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow (right).](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards_-257.jpg)
CHANCELLOR’S ENTRANCE CITATION
Vienna Christiansen — Business
Sarah Freeman — Science
Naomi Gue — Arts
Roshan Hassan — Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation
Noam Kleine — Science
Travis Mulder — Science
Chad Nichol — Augustana
Arthur Taylor — Arts
COVID-19 REMOTE TEACHING AWARD
Kristen Burton — History, Classics, and Religion
Ava Chow — Dentistry
Lisa Claypool — Art & Design
Ben Dyson — Psychology
Kyle Foster — Physics
Matthew Guzdial — Computing Science
Stacy Lorenz — Augustana
Hassan Masoud — Philosophy
Stephanie Oliver — Augustana
Laurel Parsons — Music
Laurel Parsons — Music
Bryan Rapati — Mechanical Engineering
Silvia Sgaramella — Civil Engineering and Extension
Lisa Strohschein — Sociology
Chloe Taylor — Women's and Gender Studies
Nancy Van Styvendale — Native Studies
David Vergote — Faculté Saint-Jean
Kristin Zelyck — Nursing
Team: CHEM 333
- Jillian Buriak — Chemistry
- Jason Cooke — Chemistry
Team: ENT 220
- Ronald Batallas Huacon — Biological Sciences
- Maya Evenden — Biological Sciences
- Victor Shegelski — Biological Sciences
Team: MED 513
- Instructors from the departments of Pediatrics and Medicine
![Sarah Forgie (left) Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Hassan Roshan (centre), a recipient of the Chancellor’s Entrance Citation, and Bishoi Aziz (right), Vice-President Academic of the Graduate Students’ Association.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards_-247.jpg)
![Peggy St. Jacques (left), Sloan Research Fellowship recipient, and Ben Dyson (right), a COVID-19 Remote Teaching Award winner, pose for a photo.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards-58.jpg)
![Matthew Guzdial, a COVID-19 Remote Teaching Award winner, mingles before the event.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards-71.jpg)
JOHN G. FITZGERALD OUTSTANDING MICROBIOLOGIST AWARD
D. Lorne Tyrrell — Medical Microbiology and Immunology
LORAN SCHOLAR
Maryam Ali — Engineering
Hannah Liu — Science
MARTHA COOK PIPER RESEARCH PRIZE
Matthew Steele-MacInnis — Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Yao Zheng — Psychology
ORDER OF CANADA OFFICER
David Lynch — Engineering
PRESIDENT'S ENTRANCE CITATION
Medina Assiff — Education
Thomas Beschell — Science
Elise Chandra — Faculté Saint-Jean
Jacqueline Cowling — Business
Ty Holmes — Augustana
Jasmine Virk — Nursing
![Chancellor Peggy Garritty addresses guests.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards_-62.jpg)
![Harpist Keri Lynn Zwicker provides music for the event.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards-2.jpg)
![Event programs displayed on a table.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards-40.jpg)
![Award winners and guests pose for a picture at the reception.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards_-251.jpg)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA COLLEGE OF NEW SCHOLARS, ARTISTS AND SCIENTISTS
Jordan Abel — English and Film Studies
Daniel Alessi — Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA FELLOW
Janet Elliot — Chemical and Materials Engineering
Royston Greenwood — Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management
Julie Rak — English and Film Studies
SCHULICH LEADER SCHOLARSHIP
Colin Chan — Engineering
Angelica Ferriss — Science
Mohammad Hunaid Khan — Science
Divya Prasad — Science
Jarret Schulz — Engineering
Muhammed Shareef — Engineering
![Jordan Abel, a new member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists poses with colleague and Royal Society of Canada Fellow Julie Rak.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards_-263.jpg)
![Dr. Aminah Robinson Fayek, Vice-President (Research and Innovation), welcomes and congratulates attendees.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards_-99.jpg)
SLOAN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Peggy St. Jacques — Psychology
SUPPORT STAFF RESEARCH ENHANCEMENT AWARD
Marilyn Hawirko — Public Health
Amberley Ostevik — Rehabilitation Medicine
TD SCHOLARSHIP FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
Salim Soufi — Science
VANIER CANADA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
Juliana Balluffi-Fry — Biological Sciences
Rebecca Bourgeois — Anthropology
Reyhaneh Javadi — Sociology
Emily Mack — Educational Psychology
Leigh-Ann Thompson — Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
![Marilyn Hawirko (right), one of the winners of the Support Staff Research Enhancement Award, poses with a guest.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards_-193.jpg)
![University leadership arrive to celebrate with guests and winners.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards-119.jpg)
![Salim Soufi, winner of the TD Scholarship for Community Leadership, enjoys refreshments at Celebrate!](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards-39.jpg)
![Qutuba Karwi, President of the U of A’s Postdoctoral Fellows Association, delivers a congratulatory message.](../../media-library/2022/11-november/celebrate-2022/uofa_celebrateawards_-48.jpg)
All photos by Christy Dean