This afternoon, Bob Lemieux, Dean of Science celebrated the amazing faculty and staff of the Faculty of Science that have received awards for teaching and research in the last four years (2018-2021), in addition to introducing the new faculty members, as well as recognizing faculty and staff who have retired since June 2018.
Lemieux started by thanking everyone from the Faculty for their exceptional work during the past 14 months, noting that all of our faculty and staff should be getting an award for their work to ensure that our teaching, research, and student support continued throughout the transition to online.
Faculty and Staff Awardees
Department of Biology
Paul Craig–2018 Outstanding Performance Award; 2019 Early Researcher Award
VivianDayeh–2020 Outstanding Performance Award
Brian Dixon–2020 Annual Award of Excellence by the Cuban National Academy of Science
Andrew Doxey–2020 University Research Chair; 2020 Outstanding Performance Award
Heidi Engelhardt–2018 Outstanding Performance Award
BarbKatzenback–2020 Early Researcher Award
Jen Lehman–2019 Lili Pasternak Staff Excellence Award
Kirsten Muller– 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
Josh Neufeld–2019 University Research Chair; 2020 Elected Member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada
Marcel Pinheiro–2019 Jack Carlson Teaching Excellence in Biology Award; 2020 Outstanding Performance Award
Bruce Reed– 2020 Rosi and Max Varon Visiting Professorship, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Rebecca Rooney– 2018 Outstanding Performance Award
Mark Servos–2019 Stephen J. Klaine Environmental Education Award from the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry; 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
Heidi Swanson– 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
Department of Chemistry
Carey Bissonnette–2018 Outstanding Performance Award
Laura Deakin– 2019 Outstanding Performance Award; 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award
Jean Duhamel–2018 Outstanding Performance Award; 2021 CIC Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award
Steven Forsey– 2020 Outstanding Performance Award
Mario Gauthier– 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
Tadeusz Gorecki–2020 Marie Curie Global Fellowship
Scott Hopkins–2018 Outstanding Performance Award; Young Investigator Award
JuewenLiu– 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
Graham Murphy–2018 Outstanding Performance Award; 2021 CSC KeithFagnouAward
Rick Marta (joint between Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy)–2020 Distinguished Teacher Award; 2020 Outstanding Performance Award
LizMeiering– 2020 Outstanding Performance Award
Linda Nazar–2019 CIC Medal; 2020 MRS Medal; 2020 Outstanding Performance Award
Pavle Radovanovic–2019 CSC Keith Laidler Award
Rodney Smith–2021 Early Researcher Award
Shirley Tang–2019NanoOntarioWomen’s Achievement Award
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
NanditaBasu–2018 Outstanding Performance Award; 2018 Faculty of Engineering Graduate Supervision Award; 2019 University Research Chair; 2019 Borland Lecture, Hydrology Days; 2019 Member, Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists; 2020 President’s Excellence in Research and Teaching Award; 2020 Sulzman Award in Education and Mentoring; 2021 Fellow, Earth Leadership Program
David Blowes - 2020 Outstanding Performance Award
John Cherry– Stockholm Water Prize
Keith Delaney– 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
Shaun Frape– 2019 Jane Lang Excellence in EES TeachingAward;2019 TU Delft Global Drinking Water Best Paper Award
Brian Kendall– 2019 W.W. Hutchinson Medal; 2019 Canada Research Chair Tier 2
JenineMcCutcheon– 2018 ANSTO Australian Synchrotron Stephen Wilkins Thesis Medal; European Association of Geochemistry Early Career Science Ambassador
FereidounRezanezhad– 2019 Yangtze Water Award – GlobalWaterTechChallenge (withPhilippe VanCappellen); 2019 Technical University of Munich August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor Award
David Rudolph– Robert N.FarvoldenAward
Saru Saraswati– 2019BiogeosciencesBest Student Presentation
Colby Steelman–2020 Outstanding Performance Award
Philippe VanCappellen– 2018 Honorary Professor at Tianjin University; 2020 Excellence in Graduate Supervision Award
ChrisYakymchuk– 2018 Outstanding Performance Award; 2020 Jane Lang Excellence in EES Teaching Award; 2020 Young Scientist Award, Mineralogical Association of Canada
School of Optometry & Vision Science
Jenna Bright–2019 Johnson & Johnson Vision Care OD 4040 Award
Lisa Christian–2021 Science Excellence in Teaching Award (ESTA); 2020 Outstanding Performance Award
Kristine Dalton–2019 Distinguished Instructor Award (UWOSS)
Anne Girling–2019 Administrative Assistant Award
Lacey Haines–2019 Global Specialty Lens Symposium, 1stPlace Poster (Scientific Category); 2020 UW Trailblazer Award
JeffHovis– Fellowship, Aerospace Medical Association
Natalie Hutchings–2019 Excellence in Science Teaching Award (ESTA); 2019 Diplomate of Optometric Education – American Academy of Optometry
PatriciaHrynchak–2018 Michael G. Harris Family Award for Excellence in Optometric Education; 2018 Outstanding Performance Award; 2021 President’s Excellence in Teaching Award
Lyndon Jones–2018 Contact Lens Educator of the Year for the Americas Region – IACLE; 2019 Global Specialty Lens Symposium, 2ndPlace Poster (Scientific Category); 2019 British Contact Lens Association Medal “Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Contact Lenses”; 2019 AOCLE Lester Janoff Cornea and Contact Lens Memorial Award; 2019 German Contact Lens Association Peter Abel Award; 2020 UW Trailblazer Award; 2020 Distinguished Instructor Award (UWOSS); 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
ShamrozeKhan–2019 Outstanding Performance Award; 2020 OAO Public Education Award
Tammy Labreche–2020 OAO Public Education Award; 2020 Outstanding Performance Award
VenguLakshminarayanan–2019 International Research Travel Award from the American Physical Society; IEEE Ambassador, Region 7; 2019 Fellow Lecturer – Optical Society of America; 2019 Executive Committee of the APS Forum on International Physics
Susan Leat–2020 OAO Public Education Award
Ernest Luchetti–2020 Distinguished Clinical Instructor Award (UWOSS)
William Ngo–2020 Korb-Exford Dry Eye Career Development Grant
Jenny Oliveira-Kane–2020 Administrative Assistant Award
LisaProkopich–2020 OAO Distinguished Service Award
MarleeSpafford– 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
Ben Thompson–2018 Bernard Gilmartin Award, Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics; 2018 Outstanding Performance Award
Stanley Woo–2020 OAO President’s Award
School of Pharmacy
MikeBeazely–2018 Community Leader Award, UW
Feng Chang, Kelly Grindrod, Sherilyn Houle, Nancy Waite–2019 Canadian Pharmacists Journal 2019 Best Paper Award
Barb Coulston–2020 Excellence in Pharmacy Teaching Award (EPTA)
Sarah de Waal–2018 Best Poster, Lifelong Learning in Pharmacy Conference(with Nardine Nakhla, FeliciaPantazi, Rosemary Killeen, Lacey Haines, Sarah MacIver, Sruthi Srinivasan, Alisa Sivak and Karen Walsh)
Andrea Edginton–2018 Outstanding Performance Award
Dave Edwards–2018 Honorary Life Award, Canadian Pharmacists Association; 2020 Outstanding Performance Award
Kelly Grindrod– Pharmacist of the Year Award
Emmanuel Ho– 2018 School of Pharmacy Outstanding Faculty Mentor in Graduate Program Award; 2019 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Research Leader Award; 2020 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Research Leader Award
Rosemary Killeen–2018 Best Poster, Lifelong Learning in Pharmacy Conference(withNardine Nakhla, FeliciaPantazi, Sarah de Waal, Lacey Haines, Sarah MacIver, Sruthi Srinivasan, Alisa Sivak and Karen Walsh); 2020 Best Credit Programming under 48 hours award(with Brett Barrett and FeliciaPantazi)
Elaine Lillie –2018 Excellence in Pharmacy Teaching Award (EPTA)
Ken Manson– 2020 AFPC/PEBC Award for Excellence in Research or Innovation in Assessment of Competence (for the development and stewardship of the Ontario Pharmacy Practice Clinical Assessment Tool
Nardine Nakhla– 2018 Best Poster, Lifelong Learning in Pharmacy Conference(withRosemary Kileen, FeliciaPantazi, Sarah de Waal, Lacey Haines, Sarah MacIver, Sruthi Srinivasan, Alisa Sivak and Karen Walsh)2019 Excellence in Pharmacy Teaching Award (EPTA); 2019 Outstanding Performance Award; 2020 Excellence in Science Teaching Award (ESTA); 2020 Ontario Bowl of Hygeia Award from OPA
PraveenNekkar–Honored Professor of Overseas Expertise from November 2018 to October 2021, Zhejiang University of China
Tejal Patel– 2020 MINT Memory Clinic Future Innovator Award, from The Change Foundation
Cynthia Richard– 2018 Outstanding Performance Award; 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award
Alana Rigby– 2019 Gold Prixd’ExcellenceAward, Canada Council for the Advancement of Education
Nancy Waite–2020 Outstanding Performance Award
William Wong–2018 Early Researcher Award; 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
Department of Physics & Astronomy
NiayeshAfshordi–2019 Buchalter Cosmology Prize (1stplace), Buchalter Research Foundation
Michael Balogh– 2020 Outstanding Performance Award; 2020 Executive Award for Outstanding Service Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)
AntonBurkov– 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
Melanie Campbell– 2019 Laird Lectureship, Western University
Michel Gingras– 2019 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; 2020 New Frontiers in Research Fund; 2020 Research Leaders Award, WIN
Michael Hudson– 2019 Outstanding Performance Award
RajibulIslam– 2019 Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Physics and Astronomy; 2019 Early Researcher Award; 2020 President’s Excellence in Research Award
Brenda Lee–2019 Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Award for Teaching Excellence; 2019 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association; 2020 Outstanding Performance Award; 2021 Excellence in Science Teaching Award (ESTA)
ZoyaLeonenko– 2019 President, Biophysical Society of Canada; 2020 University Research Chair; 2020 New Frontiers in Research Fund; 2020 NSERC Engage Grant
NorbertLutkenhaus–2018 Outstanding Performance Award
Robert Mann– 2019 Outstanding Performance Award; 2019 C.A.P. Medal of Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Physics, Canadian Association of Physicists; 2020 Distinguished Referee Award, European Physical Journal
Brian McNamara– 2020 NASA Group Achievement Award
Roger Melko–2018 Outstanding Performance Award
Christine Muschik–2019 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship; 2019 NSERC Discovery Grant Supplement; 2019 New Frontiers in Research Fund; 2020 CIFARAzrieliGlobal Scholar; 2020 UW President’s Research Excellence Award
Will Percival– 2020 Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year
Crystal Senko– 2020 Canada Research Chair
Donna Strickland– 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics; 2018 Outstanding Performance Award; 2019 Companion of the Order of Canada, The Governor General of Canada; 2019 inducted into the International Women’s Forum Hall of Fame; 2019 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada; 2019 Golden Plate of Achievement Award, Academy of Achievement; 2019 Honorary Fellow, Institute of Physics (IoP) (UK); 2019 Honorary Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE); 2019 Honorary Doctorate, International University Menendez Pelayo (UIMP); 2019 Honorary Doctorate, McMaster University; 2019 George Eastman Medal, University of Rochester; 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Rochester; 2019 Honorary Doctorate Institute National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS); 2019 Fellow, The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE); 2020 Photonics Pioneer Award, Fitzpatrick Institute of Physics, Duke University; 2020 International Member, National Academy of Science; 2020 Fellow, The Royal Society (UK)
Faculty members who have joined the Faculty of Science
- Dale Martin – Biology
- Liam McGuire - Biology
- Julie Messier – Biology
- Jozef Nissimov - Biology
- Sarah Ruffell – Biology
- Adam Yates – Biology
- Laura Ingram – Chemistry
- Subha Kalyaanamoorthy – Chemistry
- Andrea Brookfield – Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Tonya Del Sontro – Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Jenine McCutcheon – Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Maddy Rosamond – Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Colby Steelman–Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Randy Stotler–Earth & Environmental Sciences
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William Ngo–Optometry & Vision Science
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Chau-Man Phan–Optometry & Vision Science
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Julie Shalhoub–Optometry & Vision Science
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Brett Barrett–Pharmacy
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Aravindhan Ganesan–Pharmacy
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Karen Cummings–Physics & Astronomy
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Alan Jamison–Physics & Astronomy
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Brenda Lee–Physics & Astronomy
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PooyaRonagh– Physics & Astronomy
Faculty members who have retired from the Faculty of Science
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Barb Butler – Biology
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Bruce Greenberg – Biology
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Ralph Smith – Biology
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Janet Waite – Biology
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Guy Guillemette – Chemistry
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Susan Mikkelsen - Chemistry
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Barry Warner – Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Susan Leat – Optometry and Vision Science
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Luigina Sorbara – Optometry and Vision Science
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Ken Potvin – Pharmacy