James D. Leslie Graduate Award

The James D. Leslie Graduate Award is awarded annually to a full-time or part-time graduate student who has completed their degree requirements in one of Waterloo’s fully online graduate degree programs, achieving a minimum 80% overall average and demonstrating the benefits of lifelong learning. 

This $1000 award is made possible by a donation from Dr. Josephine Naidoo, widow, and children Dr. Christina Leslie, Dr. Ken Leslie, and Dr. Michele Leslie, in recognition of the contributions of their late husband and father James D. Leslie to the foundation of Waterloo’s Distance Education program.

Graduate Award Winners

Year Name Program
2022 Shane Clark Master of Social Work (MSW)
2021 Sarah Chan Master of Mathematics for Teachers (MMT)

J.D. Leslie Undergraduate Prize

University of Waterloo's J.D. Leslie Undergraduate Prize is awarded to a graduating  student who has achieved a first-class standing and who has earned 50% or more of the credits for his or her undergraduate degree through online courses. 

This $1,000 prize is named for the late James D. Leslie, PhD., who began the University of Waterloo's Correspondence Program in 1968 (now the Centre for Extended Learning). It is awarded annually at the fall convocation ceremony.

Undergraduate Award Winners

Year Name Program
2022 Kassie Harker Arts, Honours
2021 Mariangela Rogers Arts, General
2020 Yuyu Duan Math, General
2019 Agata Nowak Arts, Honours
2018 Jennifer Roy Arts, General
2017 Erin Firmani Arts, Honours
2016 Tanya Montebello Arts, General
2015 Charlotte Whalen Arts, General
2014> Sheila Noel Arts, General
2013 Nicole Gadoury Arts, General
2012 Michele Morin-Guy Science, General

2011

M. Helen Murphy

Arts, General

2010

Stephen Kring

Arts, General

2009

Amar Nashi

Science, General

2008

Jennifer Van Acker-Barlow

Arts, General

2007

Debbie Loubert

Arts, General

2006

Andrea Kidd

Arts, General

2005

Bryn Palmer

Science, General

2005

Jane Allin

Science, Honours

2004

Heather Nelson

Arts, General

2003

Jennifer Antifave

Arts, General

2002

Raymond E. Metcalf

Science, General

2001

Dagmar Jahn-Burton

Arts, General

2000

Cindy E. Cowan

Arts, General

1999

James D. Piggott

Science, General

1998

Donald M. Witzel

Mathematics, General

1997

Muriel Orr Hadzocos

Arts

1996

Valarie J. Wallace

Arts, General

1995

Valerie E. Croy

Science, General

1994

Philip L. Monner

Arts, General

1993

James W. Evans

Arts, General

1992

Dorothy E. Rozins

Arts, General

1991

Harold A. Angel

Science, General

1991

Barbara J. Robson

Arts, General

1990

Gezina M. Rietveld

Arts, General

1989

Kurt P. Noack

Arts, General

1988

Margaret P. Sinclair

Mathematics, General

1987

Hildegard M. Fuhs-Briks

Arts, General

1986

Nancy L. Maki

Arts, General

1985

James B. Cleland

Science, General

1985

Elizabeth M. Dranfield

Arts, General

1984

Rita K. Beechey

Arts, General

1983

James D. Keddie

Arts, General

1982

Janine A. Johnson

Arts, General

1982

Julie Kit Yee Yu

Science, General

Dr. James D. Leslie

James D. Leslie, PhD.