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Award-winning teachers, researchers to be honoured
The President's Reception for Excellence in Teaching and Research takes place on Tuesday, April 10, honouring the faculty and graduate students who have received awards for research and teaching excellence this past year.
43 faculty and graduate students who won teaching awards and 119 who won research awards both internal and external to the University will be celebrated.
President Feridun Hamdullahpur, Vice-President, Academic & Provost George Dixon and Vice-President of the Graduate Student Association Max Salman will be speaking.
The teaching award honourees include:
Derek Armitage; Mónica Barra; Michael Beazely; Sanjeev Bedi; Steven Bednarski; Hector Budman, Claudio Cañizares; Wayne Chang; Feng Chang; Frankie Condon; Douglas Cowan; Dan Davison; Richard Epp; Kaan Erkorkmaz; Myra Fernandes; Brian Forrest; Amanda Garcia; Carol Hulls; Alex Huynh; Igor Ivkovic; David Jao; Amir Khajepour; Rosemary Killeen; Ken Klassen; Norman Klassen; Ron Kroeker; Elaine Lillie; David McKinnon; Houman Mehrabian; Mariam Mufti; Mohammed Nassar; Elena Neiterman; Edwin Ng; Rajinder Pal; Tejal Patel; Karin Schmidlin; Sherman Shen; Gordon Stubley; Lay Ling Tan; Chris Vigna; Mary Wells; Derek Wright; and Chad Wriglesworth.
The research award honourees include:
Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir; Howard Armitage; Chris Bachmann; Michal Bajcsy; Nandita Basu; Hilary Bergsieker; Derek Besner; Jonathan Blay; David Blowes; Ramona Bobocel; Raouf Boutaba; Janusz Brzozowski; Sarah Burch; Zhongwei Chen; Richard J. Cook; Don Cowan; Andrew Doxey; Robin Duncan; Ehab El-Saadany; Myra Fernandes; Mark Ferro; Steven Fischer; Marianna Foldvari; Geoffrey Fong; Brian Forrest; Ian Goldberg; Guang Gong; Maura R. Grossman; Igor Grossmann; Frank Gu; Ralph Haas; Jasmin Habib; David Hammond; Mark Havitz; Eric Helleiner; Keith Hipel; Ric Holt; Scott Hopkins; Susan Horton; Philip Howarth; Richard Hughson; Lyndon Jones; Ivan Jurakic; Suzanne Kearns; Matthew Kennedy; Amir Khajepour; Na Young Kim; Sharon Kirkpatrick; Alice Kuzniar; Whitney Lackenbauer; Raymond Laflamme; Stanley Laiken; Lap Chi Lau; Scott Leatherdale; Xianguo Li; Juewen Liu; Norbert Lutkenhaus; Colin MacLeod; Eduardo Martin-Martinez; Colleen Maxwell; Alan Macnaughton; Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher; Hossein Abouee Mehrizi; Guo-Xing Miao; Sushanta Mitra; David Moscovitch; Ron Mullin; J. Ian Munro; Linda Nazar; Vinh Nguyen; Nicole Nolette; Marcel Nooijen; Marcel O'Gorman; Tamer Özsu; Diana Parry; Janusz Pawliszyn; Guy Poirier; Adam Presslee; Michael Reimer; Jean Richardson; Candida Rifkind; Evan Risko, Peter Russell; Ken Salem; German Sciaini; Winny Shen; Larry Smith; Ken Seng Tan; Andrew Trant; Daniel Vogel; Zhou Wang; Ruodu Wang; Linda Warley; Mary Wells; Joanne Wood; Michael Worswick; Alfred Yu; and Weihua Zhuang.
The event takes place in the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Renison hires new director of external relations
Renison University College has announced that Cort Egan will be joining the organization as its new Director, External Relations and Communications, effective July 3, 2018.
Egan brings to this position almost three decades of senior leadership roles in both the private and public sector. Most recently, Egan spent ten years overseeing communications, evaluation and assessment, and stewardship within several departments at the University of Guelph.
In addition to holding both an Honours Baccalaureate in English Literature (St. Jerome’s University) and a Master’s degree in Rhetoric and Communication Design from the University of Waterloo, Egan has earned a Master’s in Leadership and a Certificate in Knowledge Mobilization, both from the University of Guelph.
Reporting directly to the President and Vice Chancellor, Dr. Wendy Fletcher, Egan will also participate as a member of Renison’s Executive Council, assisting in the planning, development, fulfillment and evaluation of College-wide priorities.
“While his professional and academic credentials are impressive,” said Professor Fletcher, who chaired the selection committee, “it was his shared values and vision with Renison that ultimately set him apart. Renison University College has a long-held commitment to social justice, reconciliation and authentic relationship building. Cort clearly articulated throughout the interview process that he not only shares these values, but that he is dedicated to growing and expanding their reach.”
WatIAM replacement begins today
The replacement of the identity management system known as WatIAM has been rescheduled to begin today at 4:30 p.m. and will run until Thursday, April 12 at 8:00 a.m. The WatIAM system will be down and unavailable to clients during the upgrade process.
Important notes:
- Authentication services will remain available.
- Identity management services will be unavailable for the duration of the outage, including new identity creation and changes to user information such as emails and passwords.
- Identities in the current WatIAM system prior to the planned outage will have been provisioned already, including post-dated or future dated items during the outage period.
- Dependent applications, such as myHRinfo, will continue to process new application accounts during the outage, however the new identity (and therefore user access) will not be provisioned until after the identity system change is complete. These new accounts will be queued and processed when the new service is available.
- Critical requests for changes to user access can be directed to the IST Service Desk at helpdesk@uwaterloo.ca or ext. 44357.
Anyone with questions or concerns is invited to contact the IST Service Desk by sending an email to helpdesk@uwaterloo.ca or ext. 44357.
Notes as examinations begin
Today marks the beginning of the examination period, which runs until Tuesday, April 24. Online examinations take place on Friday, April 13 and Saturday, April 14 this term. The Library is operating under expanded exam hours and will continue to do so until April 24, and the Student Life Centre's Great Hall has been converted into study space for students who need a place to hit the books.
"The Library is working with the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) to develop a common platform for discovering scholarly resources and collections," says a note from the Library. "We want to understand how our users currently use the TRELLIS catalogue, so that we can assess how the new system will meet your needs, and identify any potential support needs to help users adjust to these changes."
"You can help us by participating in our 8-question survey about using the Library catalogue."
Learn more about this initiative.
A protective engineering walkway is being installed outside the Mathematics and Computer Building as part of the preparation for construction of the bridge link between the west side of the MC's third floor and the Student Life Centre. Plant Operations notes that vehicle traffic, including golf carts, will be restricted around the covered walkway.