Kudos across campus

Kudos from the Vice-President Academic and Provost celebrates external recognition for outstanding achievements of Dalhousie faculty, staff, and students.

Faculty of Architecture and Planning

Congratulations to Susan Fitzgerald (sessional instructor, School of Architecture), winner of the Canada Council for the Arts Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture for 2011.  The Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture, valued at $50,000, is awarded to a young architect or practitioner of architecture, an architecture firm or an architectural design firm that has completed its first buildings and demonstrated an exceptional artistic potential. The prize allows the winners to travel around the world to hone their skills, develop their creative practice and strengthen their presence in international architecture culture.

Faculty of Engineering

Congratulations to Alex Kalamkarov (Mechanical Engineering) upon being awarded the 2011 Canadian Congress on Applied Mechanics (CANCAM) Medal in recognition of his major contribution to the fundamental analysis, design, and optimization of composite materials and smart structures. This medal is awarded every two years and it is the first time it has been awarded to somebody in Atlantic Canada.

Faculty of Health Professions

Congratulations to Kim Munroe (School of Health Administration, MHA 2011)  upon being recognized by The Gerentology Association of Nova Scotia (GANS) for achieving excellence in the study of the field of aging. Established in 1977, GANS is a multi-disciplinary voluntary association of individuals, families and organizations with an interest in aging. Each year GANS recognizes a student enrolled in a Nova Scotia post-secondary institution who achieves excellence in the study of the field of aging.

Congratulations to the following, from the School of Physiotherapy, upon being awarded honours at the Canadian Physiotherapy Association Annual Congress held this past July:

• Marilyn MacKay-Lyons (Associate Professor) was awarded the Enid Graham Memorial Lectureship, which is the highest individual award bestowed upon a member of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association. Marilyn gave her address, “The evolution of our profession,” at the Congress.
• Barbara Kelly (Instructor) was awarded the Margaret Finley-Vatcher Award from the Pediatric Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association for her significant contributions to the Division and to the forthcoming Pediatric Specialization Program.
• Alison MacDonald (Adjunct Professor and physiotherapist at the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre), was awarded the CPA Mentorship award for all her dedicated work with colleagues and students.
• Shawn Robins (Post-Doctoral Fellow) was awarded the Alun Morgan Memorial Award in Orthopaedic Physiotherapy from the Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada.
  

Faculty of Management

Congratulations to Dalhousie University’s Management Career Services (MCS) team upon earning the national Excellence in Innovation Award for Student Engagement at the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers (CACEE) this summer for the creation of their All-Inclusive Career Success Boot Camp. The annual award recognizes the best information, program or resource directed to students.

Faculty of Science

Congratulations to Chelsea Quinlan and Kathryn Birnie (PhD students, Psychology) upon being awarded Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, worth $50,000 annually for three years. The Vanier CGS was created to attract and retain world-class doctoral students and to establish Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning, available to both Canadian and international PhD students studying at Canadian universities.

Congratulations to Raymond Klein (Psychology) upon being elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada, Social Sciences Division of the Academy of Social Sciences.  As stated in a letter from the President of the RSC, “[y]our election is a telling recognition of your remarkable accomplishments and an invitation to further the leadership you have already shown in advancing knowledge and scholarship in Canada.”

Congratulations to Christina Lord (PhD student, Biology) who was awarded the Taylor A. Steeves Award from the Canadian Botanical Association (CBA) for the best botany paper published in 2010. This award was presented to Ms. Lord at the CBA Annual General Meeting at the Plant Canada Conference in Halifax in July 2011. (Lord, C., and Gunawardena, A.H.L.A.N (2010). Isolation of leaf protoplasts from the submerged aquatic monocot Aponogeton madagascariensis. The Americas Journal of Plant Science and Biotechnology 4 (Special issue 2), 6-11.)  Supervisor: Arunika Gunawardena

Congratulations to Harrison Wright (PhD student, Biology) whose article was one of the most-read articles in the American Journal of Botany for the month of July. [Wright, H., van Doorn, W., and Gunawardena, A.H.L.A.N. (2009).  An in vivo Study of Developmental Programmed Cell Death using the novel Lace Plant (Aponogeton madagascariensis) Leaf Model System.  American Journal of Botany 96(5): 865-876. Cover image by Harrison Wright.]  (http://www.botany.org/)  Supervisor: Arunika Gunawardena

Schulich School of Law

Congratulations to Vaughan Black upon being granted a Fulbright Award to conduct research at Arizona State University for a project entitled: “A Court Judgment Enforcement Convention for North America.” Beginning in January 2012, Professor Black will be the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Transborder Studies at ASU, studying the possibilities for a treaty between Canada, the US, and Mexico, to establish cross-border enforcements of court judgments in civil and commercial matters. “It is with a great deal of pleasure that I welcome Professor Vaughan Black to the distinguished group of Canada-US Fulbright scholars,” says Dr Michael Hawes, Executive Director of Fulbright Canada. “Professor Black’s project deals with an issue which is of particular significance to North America at this moment in time, and his research could have far-reaching implications for the future of cross-border legal studies.”

Congratulations to Philip Girard (currently the Lewtas Visiting Scholar at Osgoode for the 2011-12 academic year) who is to be named an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History at this year’s annual conference in Atlanta in November. Professor Girard’s outstanding scholarship in comparative legal history is remarkable for many reasons and now even more so as he will be the first Canadian to be honoured in this way.

The Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost relies on you to provide information regarding awards and recognitions received. If you have recently received special recognition, or know of a colleague who has, please submit this news to kim.thomson@dal.ca for inclusion in an upcoming publication of Kudos.