Each year, the event Celebrate! Teaching.Learning.Research honours and celebrates some of the University of Alberta’s best and brightest. On November 9, 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 gathered to celebrate.
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In photos: Celebrate! 2023
November 16, 2023
Honorees and guests mingling and enjoying refreshments
Congratulations to all of the 2023 award recipients:
RHODES SCHOLARSHIP
- Abigail Isaac — Political Science
ALBERTA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (ASTECH) AWARDS
Applications in Agri-Food Production
- R. Glen Uhrig — Biological Sciences
Early Adoption of Alberta Innovation
- John Davis — Physics
Outstanding Achievement in AI/ML Advancement: Energy and Environmental Innovation
- Omid Ardakanian — Computing Science
Outstanding Achievement in Energy and Environment: Environmental Innovation in Energy Applications
- Tariq Siddique — Renewable Resources
- Aman Ullah — Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Sustainability: Innovative Applications in Environmental Sustainability
- John Nychka — Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Colleen St. Clair — Biological Sciences
Outstanding Achievement in Health - Pharmaceutical
- John Lewis — Oncology
Outstanding Achievement in Health - Research
- Xiao-Li (Lilly) Pang — Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Outstanding Achievement in Social Innovation: Programs Promoting Indigenous People
- Greg Goss — Biological Sciences
- Makere Stewart-Harawira — Education
Recognition of Significant Achievement in Academia
- Thian Yew Gan — Civil and Environmental Engineering
Harpist Keri Lynn Zwicker provides music for the event.
Verna Yiu, Provost & Vice-President Academic, welcomes attendees and delivers opening remarks.
Aminah Robinson Fayek, Vice-President (Research and Innovation) congratulates award recipients.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSING FELLOW
- Bukola Salami — Nursing/Public Health
BANTING POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
- Leonid Olifer — Physics
CANADA'S SPORTS HALL OF FAME
- Danielle Peers — Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation
CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FELLOW
- Zengtao Chen — Mechanical Engineering
- Janet A.W. Elliott — Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Osmar Zaiane — Computing Science
CANADIAN ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES FELLOW
- Jason Acker — Medicine
- Aminu Bello — Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Carla Prado — Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
- Toshifumi Yokota — Medical Genetics
D2L INNOVATION AWARD IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
- Seth Beck — Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Marnie Jamieson — Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Janice Miller-Young — Mechanical Engineering
Temitope Oriola (left), a recipient of the Dorothy Killam Fellowship and Willow White (right) a winner of the Provost’s Award for Early Achievement of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching .
(left to right) Carrie Smith, Vice-Provost (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion), Joanna Harrington, recipient of the Governor General’s Innovation Award and Ian Winship, Associate Vice-President (Research Development and Services).
Florence Glanfield, Vice-Provost (Indigenous Programming and Research) and a recipient of the Esquao Award.
DOROTHY KILLAM FELLOWSHIP
- Temitope Oriola — Sociology
- Kisha Supernant — Anthropology
ESQUAO AWARD
- Florence Glanfield — Vice-Provost (Indigenous Programming and Research)
- Evelyn Steinhauer — Education
FREDERIC NEWTON GISBORNE STARR AWARD
- Esther Tailfeathers — Family Medicine
FULBRIGHT AWARDS
- Guanqun Chen — Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
Fulbright Canada Traditional Scholar Award at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Sayed-Mojtaba Mahdavi-Ardekani — Political Science
Fulbright Canada Traditional Scholar Award at Princeton - Jorge Rosés Labrada — Linguistics
Fulbright Canada Research Chair at University of California, Santa Barbara
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S INNOVATION AWARD
- Joanna Harrington — Law
Holly Mathias, recipient of the of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholarship.
Jasmine Maghera (left), a recipient of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and Peggy Garritty, Chancellor (right).
Hope Eze (right), one of the recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
BMO FINANCIAL GROUP GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
- An Bui — Psychiatry
- Jéssica Chaves Carodso — Renewable Resources
- Laura Woodman — Human Ecology
FULBRIGHT CANADA STUDENT AWARD
- Andrew Riesen — Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP
- Holly Mathias — Public Health
VANIER CANADA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
- Mazzen Black — Biochemistry
- Hope Eze — English and Film Studies
- Jasmine Maghera — Pharmacology
- Katerina Melino — Nursing
J. GORDIN KAPLAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH
- David Wishart — Biological Sciences
Jasneet Parmar (left), recipient of Peter McCracken Physician Innovator in Education Award.
Stephanie Green (left), a recipient of the Martha Cook Piper Research Prize with Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell (right), College Dean and Vice Provost, College of Natural and Applied Sciences.
Tongwen Chen (left-centre) and Hongbo Zeng (right-centre), Royal Society of Canada Fellows.
Nicholas Wilson (left), a recipient of the Support Staff Research Enhancement Award and Graham Pearson (right), Royal Society (United Kingdom) Fellow.
MARTHA COOK PIPER RESEARCH PRIZE
- Okan Bulut — Education
- Stephanie Green — Biological Sciences
ORDER OF CANADA
- Sarah Carter, Member — History, Classics, and Religion and Native Studies
- Timothy Caulfield, Member — Law
- Kerry Courneya, Officer — Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation
- Walter Jule, Officer — Art & Design
- Beverly Lemire, Member — History, Classics, and Religion
PETER MCCRACKEN PHYSICIAN INNOVATOR IN EDUCATION AWARD
- Jasneet Parmar — Family Medicine
PROVOST'S AWARD FOR EARLY ACHIEVEMENT OF EXCELLENCE IN UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING
- Filsan Ahmed Youssouf — Campus Saint-Jean
- Willow White — Augustana
ROYAL SOCIETY FELLOW (UK)
- Graham Pearson — Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA COLLEGE OF NEW SCHOLARS, ARTISTS AND SCIENTISTS
- Lisa Hartling — Pediatrics
- Ubaka Ogbogu — Law
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA FELLOW
- Tongwen Chen — Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Michael Gänzle — Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
- Lianne McTavish — Art & Design
- Gane Ka-Shu Wong — Biological Sciences
- Hongbo Zeng — Chemical and Materials Engineering
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA KITTY NEWMAN MEMORIAL AWARD
- Ubaka Ogbogu — Law
SLOAN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
- Anastassia Voronova — Medical Genetics
SUPPORT STAFF RESEARCH ENHANCEMENT AWARD
- Reza Popari — Chemistry
- Nicholas Wilson — Surgery
Sofia Sejutee (left), a winner of the Schulich Leader Scholarship.
Shahid Ullah, President of the Post Doctoral Fellows Association, congratulates award recipients.
Burhanuddin Yamani, 2023 Loran Scholar.
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS
BMO FINANCIAL GROUP ENTRANCE CITATION
- Jialin Qiu — Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation
- Shaina Soetaert — Science
CHANCELLOR’S ENTRANCE CITATION
- Megan Armstrong — Business
- Lauren Bayne — Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences
- Mariana Castillo Arce — Augustana
- Andrea Ferriss — Science
- Grace Glover — Education
- Cole Monnich — Augustana
- Sarah Scammell — Arts
PRESIDENT’S CENTENARY ENTRANCE CITATION
- Sophia Young — Engineering
PRESIDENT’S ENTRANCE CITATION
- Belinda Che — Education
- Jordan Coffey — Augustana
- Tristan Dyck — Business
- Calla Gross — Arts
- Misha Hameed — Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation
- Taryn Rushinko — Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences
- Prabhnoor Sidhu — Engineering
- Efia Wiredu — Science
LORAN SCHOLAR
- Burhanuddin Yamani — Engineering
ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA JUSTICE ROSALIE SILBERMAN ABELLA PRIZE
- Casey Caines — Law
SCHULICH LEADER SCHOLARSHIP
- Colin Fearing — Science
- Ashbani Kaur — Science
- Peter Menghesha — Engineering
- Maxwell Nganyadi — Science
- Sofia Sejutee — Engineering
- Stephen Squires — Engineering
Frank J. Tough (left), recipient of the University Cup.
Hamid Hassani, Vice-President (External) of the Graduate Students’ Association, congratulates award recipients.
Fatima Mraiche, recipient of the Vargo Teaching Chair.
Christian Fotang, President of the University of Alberta Students' Union, congratulates award recipients.
TD SCHOLARSHIP FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
- Sophia Young — Engineering
UNIVERSITY CUP
- Frank J. Tough — Native Studies
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
- Greg Goss — Biological Sciences
- David Olson — Obstetrics and Gynecology
VARGO TEACHING CHAIR
- Fatima Mraiche — Pharmacology
View the program for this year’s reception, and past Celebrate!Teaching.Learning.Research events here.
Photography credit: Christy Dean