Community Congrats: June 2025

Recapping the recent achievements from the 海角社区 community across our campuses.

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College of Health Sciences

  • , professor — British Journal of Surgery Award
  • , dean of the Faculty of Nursing and researcher — 2025 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing 

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

  • , research centre team — Alberta Emerald Award, Education
  • Aman Ullah, professor and associate dean (Academic) — Advanced Materials Innovation Award from the International Association of Advanced Materials

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

  • Florence Ashley, professor — CAFA Distinguished Academic Early Career Researcher Award. 
  • Kwesi Yaro, professor — Faculty of Education Undergraduate Teaching Award
  • Sonya Sachar, professor — Provost's Award for Early Achievement of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
  • Rebecca Sockbeson, professor — King Charles III Coronation Medal
  • Dan Ripley, instructor — 海角社区 Wellness Champion
  • , professor — CFE Scholar in Residence
  • Marlow Pfeifer, student — Future's Fund Award winner 
  • , assistant professor — CWC Miller-Martin Award for Best Crime Novel
  • Eduardo Melo de Andrade Lima, PhD student — Graduate Student Teaching Award
  • PB Berge, assistant professor — Foundations of Digital Games Best Paper Award
  • Simone Willman, PhD student — George Proctor Prize for the best graduate student paper at the Canadian University Music Society (MusCan) Annual Conference 2025.
  • Mũkonzi Mũsyoki, PhD student — Graduate Student Teaching Award
  • , MA student — Images of Research Competition: First Place Winner and People’s Choice Winner 2025
  • , 2024 Lee Playwright in Residence — Edmonton Arts Council City of Edmonton Film Prize 
  • , alumna (BFA Art & Design) — Edmonton Arts Council 2025 Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize for "Adorned in our Threads"
  • Rebecca Bourgeois, PhD student — Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Award for 2025 from the Canadian Anthropology Society/La société canadienne d'anthropologie
  • Tonya Simpson, professor — Writers' Guild of Alberta, R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature 

Faculty of Native Studies

  • , associate professor — Best Documentary Feature, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
  • Crystal Fraser, associate professor (Faculty of Native Studies and Faculty of Arts) — 2025 Clio Award for Best Book on the Canadian North, CHA Best (English-Language) Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize
  • Sarah Carter, professor emerita (Faculty of Native Studies and Faculty of Arts) — Canadian Historical Association’s François-Xavier Garneau Prize for 2025

Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

  • , faculty engagement librarian — Nancy McCormack Emerging Leader Award