Graduate Studies awards

Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Faculty-specific teaching awards celebrate excellence in teaching by recognizing the contributions of instructors to teaching and learning within a specific Faculty.

• Goodman School of Business: Dirk De Clercq, Management

• Faculty of Mathematics and Science: Barak Shoshany, Department of Physics

• Faculty of Applied Health Sciences: Maureen Connolly, Department of Kinesiology

• Faculty of Education: Dolana Mogadime, Department of Education

• Faculty of Humanities: Mike Griffin, Department of Dramatic Arts

• Faculty of Social Sciences: Erin Panda, Department of Child and Youth Studies

Teaching Assistant Awards 2022-23

The Teaching Assistant Award was established in 1998 to recognize the important contributions to the university by teaching assistants, seminar leaders and lab demonstrators. Since 1998, three additional awards have been created to recognize and celebrate excellence in teaching demonstrated by teaching assistants at Brock. Award recipients below (from left) Thien Bao Le, Oya Pakkal, Zihang Bu, Alison Smoke, Nwakerendu (Kay) Waboso and Rebecca Rios.

TA Award

• Oya Pakkal, Psychology

Graduate TA Award

• Nwakerendu (Kay) Waboso, Child and Youth Studies

Novice TA Award

• Alison Smoke, Health Sciences (co-recipient)

• Rebecca Rios, Health Sciences (co-recipient)

International TA Award

• Thien Bao Le, Biology (co-recipient)

• Zihang Bu, Child and Youth Studies (co-recipient)

Marilyn Rose Graduate Leadership Award

The award recognizes individuals for their vision and leadership on behalf of Graduate Studies at Brock in areas such as academic programming, research and scholarship, student services, and student experience initiatives – the kind of work through which a strong and vital graduate culture has emerged in support of graduate students and in support of the University’s academic and research goals.

• Katrina Carbonara, Student, MSc in Applied Health Sciences

Michael Plyley Graduate Mentorship Award

Nominations come from graduate students as an opportunity for them to pay tribute to an individual graduate faculty member who has provided them with outstanding support and encouragement in their development as a graduate researcher.

• Stephen Cheung, Professor, Department of Kinesiology

• Alison Cox, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Disability Studies

Suzanne Curtin-Christopher Yendt Graduate Collaboration Award

Established in 2023, the Suzanne Curtin – Christopher Yendt Graduate Collaboration Award was created to recognize graduate students who have been outstanding in collaboration and leadership efforts in the Brock graduate community and beyond.

• Inaugural winner: Haley Myatt, MA in Child and Youth Studies

Jack M. Miller Excellence in Research Awards

These awards recognize graduate students who have presented projects that are highly original and are addressing significant questions.

• Zahra Fouladgar, MSc in Management

• Stacey Woods, PhD in Applied Health Sciences

• Carl Alano, MSc in Applied Health Sciences

• Robert Blom, PhD in Educational Studies

• Madelyn Huston, MA in Classics

• Marley Liepert, PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities

• Anne Worrell, PhD in Chemistry

• Joshua Labrie, MSc in Earth Sciences

• Kaitlyn Carr, MS in Sustainability

• Victoria Dykstra, PhD in Psychology

Horizon Graduate Scholarship

Launched in 2020-21 academic year, the Horizon Scholarship fund (set to provide $1 million to incoming students over 10 years) is intended to help Brock attract top researchers and students from various fields while building a diverse and inclusive university community. This past year, the Faculty of Graduate Studies awarded 20 high-achieving graduate students from research-based programs the one-time $5,000 scholarship. Please see the following link for the full list of recipients: brocku.ca/brock-news/2023/03/horizon-scholarship-recipients-on-path-to-becoming-tomorrowschangemakers/

Professor, Management