The 番茄社区 will present two honorary degrees for outstanding achievements in public health, journalism and community-based leadership when it conducts its fall convocation ceremonies on Nov. 10 and 12.
Dr. Kelli Stajduhar (UVic School of Nursing and Centre on Aging) is the recipient of a 2014 Excellence in Nursing Research award from the College of Registered Nurses of BC for her clinically-focused research on end-of-life and palliative care and her contributions as a research facilitator, mentor and communicator.
It's time to nominate an individual or team for a President's Distinguished Service Award. The purpose of these annual awards is to celebrate the outstanding contributions of university employees to the betterment of the campus and its community. Nomination forms are due by Nov. 21.
Julianne Zussman, assistant coach for the 番茄社区 Vikes Women's rugby team, has been awarded the $2,000 Pacific Western Brewing (PWB) Community Foundation Hometown Heroes bursary. "The Pacific Western Brewing Hometown Heroes Program is designed to support the goals of the 2015 Canada Winter Games," said Velox Rugby Football Club Director Marlene Donaldson. "These goals are all about sportsmanship, leadership and citizenship. Today is also about recognizing an outstanding athlete who believes in going for gold and puts down her very best every day."
Retired professor Jack Hodgins (writing) is the winner of the Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 Lorne Pierce Medal. The award noted that Hodgins is 鈥渋nternationally acclaimed for his achievements in both the novel and short story forms, admired for the complex morality of his subjects, as well as his structural and linguistic ability鈥� and that his 鈥渋maginative fiction masterfully explores the history, the people and the places of the coast of British Columbia.鈥� Hodgins has also received the Governor General鈥檚 Award for Fiction, the Commonwealth Prize, and the Order of Canada.聽
Sara Ellison聽(physics and astronomy) has been awarded the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics from the Royal Society of Canada for her outstanding work in astrophysics. Ellison leads several international research programs that are using the world鈥檚 leading telescopes to understand how galaxies form and evolve. Her research has appeared in more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and includes numerous high-impact discoveries in the field of extragalactic observational astronomy.
Dr. David Giles (economics) was recently named a Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists. The award was made at the 2014 Conference of the Association, in Auckland, New Zealand, where Giles also presented the invited A.W.H. Phillips Memorial Lecture. Dr. Giles is only the 13th economist to be named a Distinguished Fellow of the NZAE in its 55-year history.
番茄社区 Vice President External Relations Carmen Charette has been named this year鈥檚 recipient of the national Walter Hitschfeld Award from the Canadian Association of University Research Administrators. The prestigious award is presented to 鈥渁n individual who has demonstrated an exceptional impact on the enhancement of the research environment in Canada.鈥� Previous Hitschfeld winners include David Strangway, former president of the Canada Foundation for Innovation and President Emeritus of the University of Toronto and UBC, and Arthur Carty, former national science advisor to the prime minister and former president of the National Research Council.
Of 12 people recognized on May 29 with City of Victoria Honorary Citizen awards, five have strong connections to UVic. Congratulations to Murray and Lynda Farmer; Kathy and Ken Shields; and Dr. Verena Tunnicliffe. 聽
Michael J. Prince, UVic's Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy, received the 2014 CUFA-BC Academic of the Year Award on April 23. Visit uvic.ca/news for UVic's official announcement.
Congratulations and best wishes to all convocating students. Read more about Spring Convocation 2014. 聽 Governor-General's Gold Medal (best Doctoral thesis) Dr. Andrew Pon PhD, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Dr. Brent Mainprize, a professor at the Gustavson School of Business, came up a winner twice in the past month. Most recently, Mainprize garnered a 2014 Desire2Learn Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning from The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and Desire2Learn. Mainprize is one of only five winners nationally.
UVic Co-op and Career鈥檚 international CANEU-COOP exchange program has been named a Global Best Award winner by the International education business Partnership Network (IPN).
Erin Frances Fisher, graduating this month with an MFA in Writing, was announced on May 27 as the winner of the 20th annual Writers鈥� Trust RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Her $5,000-winning short story, 鈥淕irl,鈥� was selected from a field of 133 blind submissions and described by jurors 鈥渁s vast and satisfying as a great novel . . . [she] is a writer you will see again.鈥� (Also in the top-three finalists: former writing student Leah Jane Essau.)
A pioneering teaching professor from UVic鈥檚 Gustavson School of Business, Dr. Brent Mainprize, has won the national 2014 Desire2Learn Innovation in Teaching and Learning award for his fresh ideas in curriculum development and delivery. Mainprize鈥檚 c鈥�
UVic and the Gustavson School of Business were big winners at the recent BC regional Startup Canada awards. UVic was given the award as the Most Entrepreneurial Post-Secondary Institution of the Year. This prize is 鈥淎warded to the college or university that demonstrates the largest commitment and impact in advancing entrepreneurship.鈥�
