Community Congrats! February 23, 2017

UAlberta Congrats

This week, the University of Alberta is celebrating a Meritorious Service Cross, NSERC grant recipients, an inaugural Indigenous Leader Award, and more! So, congrats to the following:

• Ray Decorby, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering - awarded $534,000 through NSERC toward his research on an integrated platform for quantum networks

• Alexander Dyck, Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - received the Charles Peter W. Warren History of Medicine Essay Prize

• Shokrollah Elahi, Assistant Professor, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - awarded the Canadian Society for Immunology 2017 New Investigator Travel Award

• Lindsey Felix, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Sina Ghaemi, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering - awarded $417,000 through NSERC toward his research in increasing the endurance of autonomous underwater vehicles using polymeric coating technology for Arctic seabed exploration and monitoring

• Thomas Greidanus, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - earned a Meritorious Service Cross from the Governor General of Canada for the life-changing care he provides as part of Operation Esperanza

• Robert Hayes, Professor and Associate Chair of Research, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering - awarded $434,000 through NSERC toward his research in the development of advanced particulate filters for automotive applications

• Michael Hendry, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering - awarded the 2017 Canadian Geotechnical Society Colloquium

• Alika Lafontaine, Clinical Professor and Medical Lead for the Aboriginal Health Program, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - awarded the Public Policy Forum's Emerging Indigenous Leader Award

• Qingxia Liu, Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering - awarded $445,800 through NSERC toward his research in nano-reactive oily bubbles for enhancing fine particle flotation by agglomeration

• Derek Martin, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering - received the Geotechnical Society of Edmonton's Stan Thomson Award

• Rejish Thomas, Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - won the Coordinators of Postgraduate Psychiatry Education (COPE) Best Paper award

• Hein Min Tun, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - received an AIHS Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

• Roger Zemp, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering - awarded $751,667 from NSERC for his research in fast MEMS focusing systems

• Emilie Zentner, Student, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences - placed first in both the poster competition at the recent Canadian Agriculture Economists Society conference, and in an ad-hoc Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada policy brief competition

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