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

The above list of awards, accolades and accomplishments is not exclusive. This series relies on community submissions. If you know a 海角社区 colleague who has recently won an award or received an honour, and you would like to see their achievement celebrated in the next edition of Community Congrats, please send their info to .