ÃÀÅ®×ö°® Legacy Awards
Photo credit: Danny Abriel
The 2025 Legacy Awards event will be held on November 20, 2025. Congratulations to this year's award recipients!
- Anne Marie Ryan Community Growth AwardÌý- Dr. Jeff Karabanow and Cyndi Hall, co-directors of the ÃÀÅ®×ö°® Social Work Community Clinic, Social Work, Faculty, Health
 
- DPMG Award
- Early Career- Emily Huxley Osborne, AdvancementÌý
- Adam Guzkowski, Schlich School of Law
 
- Mid-Career- Brittany DeYoung, Faculty, MedicineÌý
- Terra Duncan, Bissett Student Success Centre, Student Affairs
 
- Long-Service- Dan Jackson, Faculty, Science
- Nick Tentomas, Facilities Management
 
- Inclusion, Diversity, Decolonization, Equity, and Accessibility (IDDEA) Outstanding Achievement- Amina Abawajy, Equity and Inclusion, People and Culture
- Shirin Shaikh, Graduate Studies
 
- Dr. Allan Cohen Memorial Award for Community Service, Faculty, Medicine- Dr. Abraham (Rami) Rudnick, Psychiatry, Faculty, Medicine
 
- Environmental Health and Safety Award- Paul Bourgeois, Faculty, Medicine
 
- Facilities Management AwardsÌý
- Stoker Award for Appreciation- Stores Transformation Team
 
- Stoker Award for Innovation- University Children’s Daycare Flood Team
 
- Stoker Award for Safety- FM Paint Team
 
- Stoker Award for Employee Choice- Ernie Hadley
 
- Gladys Littler Award, Faculty, Dentistry- Audra Hayden, Dentistry
 
- Janice MacInnis Award for Healthy Workplaces- not awarded in 2025
 
- President's Awards for the Advancement of Equity, Diversity, InclusionÌýand AccessiblityÌý(EDIA)- TBD
 
- Research Awards
- President's Research Excellence Awards
- Emerging Investigator- Dr. Stacy Allison-Cassin, Faculty, Management
- Dr. Ejemai Eboreime, Psychiatry, Faculty, Medicine
- Dr. Hannah Harrison, Marine Affairs, Faculty, Science
- Dr. Michael Metzger, Physics and Atmospheric Science, Faculty, Science
- Dr. Ruth Musgrave, Oceanography, Faculty, Science
- Dr. Alexa Yakubovich, Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty, Medicine
- Dr. Chongyin Yang, Physics and Atmospheric Science, Faculty, ScienceÌý Ìý Ìý
 
- Research Impact- Dr. Rita Orji, Faculty, Computer Science
- Dr. Derek Tittensor, Biology, Faculty, Science
- Dr. Ajay Parasram, International Development Studies & History, Faculty, Arts and Social SciencesÌý
 
- Distinguished Research Professors (formerly University Research Professors)- Dr. Penny Corkum, Psychology and Neuroscience, Faculty, Science
- Dr. Andrew Roger, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty, Medicine
 
- Rosemary Gill Award- Timi Idris, Faculty, Medicine
- Megan Baker, Faculty, Computer Science
- Jessica Veronica Mailhiot, Fountain School of Performing Arts
- Dr. Joseph P. Bielawski, Biology, Faculty, Science
 
- *NEW Staff Award for Excellence in Service,ÌýSchulich School of Law- Elizabeth Sanford, Faculty, Law
 
- Staff Award for Excellence in Service, Faculty, Agriculture- Margaret Savard, Plant, Food, and Environmental SciencesÌý
 
- University-Wide Teaching AwardsÌý
- Academic Innovation Award- Drs. Anna MacLeod and George Kovacs, and the late Mr. Rob Sandeski, Faculty, Medicine
 
- Alumni Association Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching- Dr. Liesl Gambold, Sociology & Social Anthropology and Coordinator of the Gender and Women's Studies Program, Faculty, Arts & Social Sciences
 
- Award for Excellence in Equity- Dr. Heidi Weigand, Faculty, Management
 
- Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision- Dr. Jan Rainey, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (cross appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry), Faculty, Science
 
- Award for Excellence in Online/Blended Course Development, Design, and DeliveryÌý- Dr. Christopher Greene, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty, Science
 
- Early Career Faculty Award of Excellence for Teaching- Dr. Sarah Chisholm, Mathematics and Statistics and coordinator of the Mathematics and Statistics Learning Centre, Faculty, Science
 
- Educational Leadership for Collaborative Teaching Award- Faculty of Medicine's Case Diversification Working Group
 
- President's Graduate/Undergraduate Student Teaching Award- Clarke Brown, Faculty, Civil Engineering
- Jessica Latimer, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty, Medicine
 
- Sessional and Part-Time Instructor Award for Excellence in Teaching- Sam Knight, Chemistry, Faculty, Science
 
- Wayne Paquet Award for Indispensable Service, Registrar's Office- Rita Durnford, Registrar's Office
 
The ÃÀÅ®×ö°® Legacy Awards recognize a number of university-wide awards, that are aligned with the university's strategic plan. The awards assist in helping ÃÀÅ®×ö°® create a culture of respect and recognition for employees at all levels. The first annualÌýÃÀÅ®×ö°® Legacy AwardsÌýwas held in June 2018, as part of the university's 200th anniversary celebrations.Ìý
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