Community Congrats: March + April 2025

Recapping the recent achievements from the U of A community across our campuses.

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College of Health Sciences

  • , professor — Barer-Flood Prize in Health Services and Policy Research
  • Grant Bruno, professor — King Charles III Coronation Medal
  • , professor — 2025 Innovation and Impact Award in Truth and Reconciliation Advancement from Children's Healthcare Canada
  • Cheryl Goldstein, associate professor — Canadian Association of Medicine Education's 2025 Certificate of Merit Award
  • Kailash Jindal, professor — Canadian Society of Nephrology Distinguished Service Award 2025
  • Wendy Johnston, professor — King Charles III Coronation Medal
  • Sanjay Kalra, professor — King Charles III Coronation Medal
  • Janis Miyasaki, professor — 2025 President's Award, American Academy of Neurology
  • Connie Switzer, clinical professor — King Charles III Coronation Medal
  • , clinical professor — King Charles III Coronation Medal
  • Anastassia Voronova, associate professor — Killam Accelerator Research Award

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

  • , dean, Faculty of Engineering — King Charles III Coronation Medal
  • , graduate student — First place in the Student Innovation Challenge hosted by Egg Farmers of Canada
  • Alexis De Villa and Teren Hazzard, students — First place winners of the 2025 CLC Student Poetry Contest
  • , student — IEEE PES Scholarship Plus
  • Yasmin Madani Shamami, student — Grand Prize at the 4th Annual Young Innovators Competition
  • Nafisa Sadaf Hrit, student — Grand Prize at the 4th Annual Young Innovators Competition
  •  and , students — Named national plant science prodigies
  • Marleny D.A. Saldaña, faculty — 2025 Class of Institute of Food Technologists Fellows
  • , distinguished professor and Canada research chair in integrative nutrition, body composition and energy metabolism — Stanley J. Dudrick Award from the American Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN)
  • , professor — AIMBE College of Fellows

Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

  • , student engagement coordinator — President’s Citation Award, GSA Recognition Awards

Faculty of Native Studies

  • , professor — elected to the 2025 cohort of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (under social and behavioural sciences/anthropology)

Interdisciplinary

  • , portfolio/college (interdisciplinary: Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and College of Social Sciences and Humanities) — Excellence in Design Practice Award
  •  ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Innovates and WCHRI's postdoctoral fellow (interdisciplinary: College of Natural and Applied Sciences and College of Health Sciences) — Canadian Nutrition Society Postdoctoral Award