Outstanding students honoured at Fall Awards Ceremony

Outstanding optometry students received awards at the Fall Awards Ceremony on November 10. Thanks to the donors who made the awards possible. Congratulations to all the following, including those were unable to attend the ceremony:

Barbara Sivak Memorial Award: Irene Jiang and Avery Cochrane
Dr. Clark Baldwin Award: Ipsita Kalsi
Dr. David Mckenna Memorial Scholarship: Adrianna Warren
Dr. Douglas H. Jenkins Memorial Scholarship: Taylor Landry
Dr. Karen Tompa Nowy Third-Year Memorial Award: Mehak Riaz
Dr. Reed Dawkins Entrance Award: Phuoc Thinh Nguyen
Drs. Wensveen and Smith Award in Binocular Vision and Perception: Sarah Long
E.F. Attridge Award for Highest Achievement in Pathology: Angelica Jankovic
E.J. Chisholm Memorial Scholarship: Hellen Xu
Essilor Award for Academic and Clinical Excellence in Optics: Dayapreet Dhaliwal
Frederick T. Armstrong Scholarship: Erica Chow
FYidoctors Leadership Award: Dan Stasiuk
J. Pat Cummings Scholarship: Laura Appleby
Manitoba Association of Optometrists A.H. Basman O.D Scholarships: Truong Duy Bui Thai (Year 1), Nicole Taylor (Year 2), Cassidy Roberts (Year 3), Shayna Timmerman (Year 4)
Monaghan Memorial Scholarship: John Diemert
Nova Scotia Association of Optometrists Scholarship: Adam Assali
Reginald Williams Memorial Scholarship: Avery Cochrane
Roland des Groseilliers and Margaret Hansen-des Groseilliers Humanitarian Award: Kokoro Tsuzuki
Steve de Pinto Awards: Lucy Dong and Julia Perfetto
VSP and AAOF Canadian Practice Excellence Scholarships: Judit Antonyrajan and Natali Milosevski

Summer Research Awards

Congratulations too to the following students, who received summer research awards:

Alcon Scholarship for Research in Contact Lens Care: Urbowshe Mahmood
Bobier/Fisher/Lyle Research Award: Sarah Long
Dr. Howard A. Backman Scholarship: Supriya Aryal
H. Stein Summer Research Award: Erica Chow
Optometry Faculty Undergraduate Research Scholarship: Mandy Wai