Celebration of Success

Celebration of Success Award Winners

November 18, 2011

NSERC PGS

The NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS) Program provides financial support to high-calibre students who are engaged in master's or doctoral programs in the natural sciences or engineering.

• Meghan Doster, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Jennifer Daley, GLIER
• Pierre-Paul Bitton, Biological Sciences
• Mike Miller, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Heather Filiatrault, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Vedran Vukotic, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Christopher Bonham, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Farrah Chan, GLIER
• Rajdeep Dhaliwal, Biological Sciences
• Sarah Guindre-Parker, Biological Sciences
• Christine Macdonald, Biological Sciences
• Christine Madliger, Biological Sciences
• Sarah Baldo, Biological Sciences
• Michelle Farwell, Biological Sciences
• Ying Chen, Computer Science
• Eric Bushnell, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Holly Hennin, Biological Sciences
• Meghan Vankosky, Biological Sciences

Student NSERC IPS

The Industrial Postgraduate Scholarships (IPS) Program provides financial support for highly qualified science and engineering graduates. The support allows them to gain research experience in industry while undertaking advanced studies in Canada.

• Kaitlin Kennedy, Biological Sciences

NSERC USRA

Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) are meant to stimulate student’s interests in research in the natural sciences and engineering. They are also meant to encourage students to undertake graduate studies and pursue a research career in these fields.

• Alfred Basilious, Biological Sciences
• Matthew Battiston, Biological Sciences
• Sabrina Botsford, Biological Sciences
• Eric Fifield, Biological Sciences
• Odion Kalaci, Biological Sciences
• Nicholas Paquette, Biological Sciences
• Jesse Thompson, Biological Sciences
• Touba Warsi, Biological Sciences
• Madona Chochkeh, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Michael-Anthony Ferrato, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Grant Fortowsky, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Manika Gupta, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Ryan McLarty, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Jasmin Nari, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Jennifer Nguyen, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Gyllian Porteous, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Phillip Tremblay, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Kevin Wong, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Jonathan Yu, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Omar Zghal, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Jonathan Donais, Computer Science
• Paul Meyer, Computer Science
• Shane Phibbs, Computer Science
• Matthew Renaud, Computer Science
• Michael Hall, Computer Science
• Kylie Dean, Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Justin Hoyle, Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Thaddeus Janisse, Mathematics & Statistics
• Katrina Putnam, Mathematics & Statistics
• Christopher Reaume, Mathematics & Statistics

CIHR CGS

The Canada Graduate Scholarships Master's Awards are intended to provide special recognition and support to students who are pursuing a Master's degree in a health related field in Canada. These candidates are expected to have an exceptionally high potential for future research achievement and productivity.

• Rosa-Maria Ferraiuolo, Biological Sciences
• Dennis Ma, Chemistry & Biochemistry

OGS Award

The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) program is a merit-based scholarship that encourages excellence in graduate studies at the master’s and doctoral levels.

• William Glass, Biological Sciences
• Dorota Lubanska, Biological Sciences
• Kaitlyn Matthews, Biological Sciences
• Kara-Anne Ward, Biological Sciences
• Christopher Allan, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Michael Bolla, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Sinisa Djurdjevic, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Marcel Hildebrand, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Michael Holmes, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Bogdan-Florin Ion, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Dragana Novakovic, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Ronan San Juan, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Denton Cockburn, Computer Science
• K.M. Numanul Hoque Subhani, Computer Science
• Caroline Dennis, Earth & Environmental Sciences/GLIER
• Robert Ginson, Earth & Environmental Sciences/GLIER
• Kendra Komsa, Earth & Environmental Sciences/GLIER
• Bailey McMeans, Earth & Environmental Sciences/GLIER
• Fatih Sen, Earth & Environmental Sciences/GLIER
• James Vaillant, Earth & Environmental Sciences/GLIER
• S.M. Khurshid Alam, Mathematics & Statistics
• Shabnam Chitsaz, Mathematics & Statistics
• Saber Fallahpour, Mathematics & Statistics

Ontario Trillium Scholarship

The Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS) program is designed to attract the best qualified international students to Ontario for PhD studies.

• Harri Pettitt-Wade, GLIER

Board of Governors Medals

This medal is awarded to the graduating student in each Department with the highest academic standing.

• Alfred Basilious, Biological Sciences
• Carolyn Adams, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Sunit Bhalotia, Computer Science
• Katarzyna Danigier, Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Michael Padbury, Economics
• Katrina Putnam, Mathematics & Statistics
• Christopher Mireault, Physics
• Richa Parashar, General Science

Board of Governors In-Course Medal

This medal is presented annually to the student in each Faculty who had the highest cumulative average of all non-graduating students at the end of the preceding regular session.  This year, there was tie, so the medal is being awarded to three students!

• Zachary Cramer, Mathematics & Statistics
• Jacob Gordner, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Kevin Wong, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Staff Meritorious Service Award

This award is intended to recognize a member of the support staff whose service record is judged to be quantitatively and qualitatively superior over a period of several years. Eligible are full time staff members who have been employed for at least three full years by the University of Windsor, within the Faculty of Science.

• Kimberly Lefebvre, Head Secretary, Physics

Roger Thibert Teaching Excellence Award

The Roger Thibert Teaching Excellence Award is presented to a fulltime faculty member in Science who shows excellence in undergraduate and/or graduate teaching, curriculum development or educational leadership.  The award is to recognize and honour faculty who develop a positive, learning-centred environment in the Faculty of Science.  It is also intended to highlight and share examples of excellence.

• Richard Caron, Mathematics & Statistics
• Chitra Rangan, Physics
• Robert Schurko, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Faculty of Science Teaching Score Award - Faculty

This award is given to the full-time faculty member in each AAU that has taught a total of at least 100 students over Summer 10, Fall 10, and Winter 11 and has achieved the highest weighted average on the questions A1 – A12 from the SET survey in their department.

• Kirsten Poling, Biological Sciences
• James Green, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Richard Frost, Computer Science
• Chris Lakhan, Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Marcelo Arbex, Economics
• Richard Caron, Mathematics & Statistics
• Elena Maeva, Physics

Sessional Instructors

This award is given to the Sessional member in each AAU that has taught a total of at least 100 students over Summer 10, Fall 10, and Winter 11 and has achieved the highest weighted average on the questions A1 – A12 from the SET survey in their department.

• Martin Crozier, Biological Sciences
• Dwayne Dias, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Kristina Verner, Computer Science
• Mark Moscicki, Earth & Environmental Sciences (not attending)
• David Benson, Economics
• John Battaglia, Mathematics & Statistics
• Rida El-Mehdawe, Physics

Faculty of Science Recognition Awards

Awards are given to recognize the outstanding commitment to excellence of one member from each Department/School in Science.

• Barbara Zimmerman, Biological Sciences
• Joe Lichaa, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Margaret Garabon Cookson, Computer Science
• Melissa Price, Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Ana Belciug, Economics
• Todd Leadley, GLIER
• Abdulkadir Hussein, Mathematics & Statistics
• Roman Maev, Physics

Faculty of Science Special Projects Awards

• Hugh MacIsaac, GLIER/Biological Sciences -   Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network II (CAISN II)
• Melania Cristescu, GLIER/Biological Sciences - Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program (CREATE)
• Jan Ciborowski - Carbon Dynamics, Food Web Structure and Reclamation Strategies in Athabasca Oil Sands Wetlands

Faculty Performance Award 2011

Awards are given to recognize five regular faculty members judged as having made the greatest contribution in the past year in research, teaching and service. 

• Daniel Heath, Biological Sciences/GLIER
• Arunita Jaekel, Computer Science
• Ziad Kobti, Computer Science
• Daniel Mennill, Biological Sciences
• Robert Schurko, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Lifetime Achievement Award

This award is presented to a senior member of the Faculty who has made significant contributions to the Faculty of Science and the University of Windsor throughout their career.

• Richard Frost, Computer Science