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 Previous Award RecipientsAwards and Distinctions 2009-10Awards to FacultyRamin Jahanbegloo, Associate of Trinity College, is the recipient of the 2009 Peace Prize awarded by the Association for the United Nations in Spain. www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/ramin-jahanbegloo-Spanish-UN-peace-prize
Mark Kingwell, Department of Philosophy, Fellow of Trinity received a Faculty of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award at a ceremony held at Hart House on Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Nick Mount, Department of English and Associate of Trinity College, is one of the three recipients of the President’s Teaching Award. Paul Stevens, Dept. of English and Fellow of Trinity, and David Loewenstein are recipients of the 2009 Irene Samuel Memorial Award for Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England (UOT Press: 2008). This is awarded by the Milton Society of America for the best collection of essays published on Milton in 2008, the 400th anniversary of Milton's birth. Professor Stevens is also one of five instructors to receive the UofT President’s Teaching Award which recognizes sustained excellence in teaching, research on teaching, and the integration of teaching and research. The recipients of this award are designated as a member of the Teaching Academy for a period of five years and in addition receive an annual profession development allowance during this period. Awards to StudentsJasmeet Sidhu is one of the winners of Glamour magazine's top ten college women. She applied for the award some time ago and was evaluated by a panel of judges based on leadership experience, personal involvement in community and campus affairs and academic excellence. Jasmeet is also a past recipient of the Top 20 Under 20 award and was named one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2008 by The Globe and Mail and the Women’s Executive Network. This year’s Cressy Awards which recognizes students for outstanding extra-curricular contribution, were awarded to: Gabriel De Roche, Emily Hofstetter, Naomi Jehlicka, May Sori Jeong, Ronan MacParland, David Maj, Fariya Mohiuddin, Rida Mourtada, Jasmeet Kaur Sidhu, and Lindsay Vanstone. 2008-09Awards to Faculty
Michael Collins, University Professor, Civil Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). This is in recognition of exceptional contributions to engineering in Stephen Cook, University Professor of Computer Science, has been named a fellow of the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM), in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory of computational complexity. Dwayne Miller, University Professor of Chemistry and Physics, has been awarded the 2009 Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) medal. It is presented in recognition for an outstanding contribution to the science of chemistry or chemical engineering in
Albert Moritz, who was appointed Fellow of Trinity College this year, is the Canadian winner of the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize. There were 485 entries from 32 different countries with a short list of seven finalists. The Griffin Poetry Prize was founded in 2000 to serve and encourage excellence in poetry. It is for first edition books of poetry written in, or translated into, English, and submitted from anywhere in the world. Awards to Students
Sarah Yun, a Trinity student in English and political science, has received this year’s Dean's Student Leadership Award. www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/sarah-yun-wins-dean2019s-student-leadership-award/ The Dean’s Student Leadership Award recognizes an Arts & Science student who has played a significant leadership role in his or her extracurricular activities and in so doing has had a demonstrable impact on improving the quality of student experience at the
The 2009 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards, which recognize students for outstanding extra-curricular contributions, have been awarded to the following Trinity students: Pratima Arapakota, David Bowden, Colum Grove-White, Ashley McKenzie, Stephanie Nishi, Jiwon Tina Park, Sadia Rafiquddin, Macy Siu, and Sarah Yun.
Colum Grove-White is also a recipient of an Award of Excellence 2009 - UTAA Scholar - John H. Moss Scholarship. 2007-08Awards to FacultyAwards to Students
Anh Nguyen is this year’s winner of the Dean’s Student Leadership Award, one of nine Outstanding Achievement Awards which is given annually to faculty, staff and students in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
The Dean’s Student Leadership Award recognizes an Arts & Science student who has played a significant leadership role in his or her extracurricular activities and in so doing has had a demonstrable impact on improving the quality of student experience at the 2006-07Awards to FacultyEleanor Fish, Dept. of Immunology and an Associate of Trinity College, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiologists earlier this year. Fellowships are highly selective and are based on an individual’s records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. Margaret MacMillan, Provost of Trinity College and a professor of history. is one of the four finalists for the Lionel Gelber Prize which is awarded to the "world's best books on international affairs". She was chosen for her book Nixon in China: The Week that Changed the World. Awards to StudentsThe 2007 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards, which recognize students for outstanding extra-curricular contributions, have been awarded to the following Trinity students: Mia Baumeister, Sarah Cercone, Aldous Cheung, Ethan Hoddes, Kusala Jayasuriya, Brian Kolenda, Cynthia Lan, Lawrence Lau, Matto Mildenberger, Leah Stokes, Fiona Taylor, Danielle Westbrook, Bernice Wong 2005-06Awards to FacultyStephen Cook, Dept. of Computer Science, is the winner of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Award of Excellence as a finalist for the 2005 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for science and engineering, widely recognized as Canada’s most prestigious science award. Being a finalist for the 2005 Gerald Herzberg Canada Gold Medal, Prof. Cook was one of two recipients presented with the Award of excellence from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The award includes a $50,000 research grant. Arne Kislenko, a Trinity College instructor and a history professor with Ryerson University, was voted Ontario’s Best Lecturer in TVO’s Big Ideas competition. He was competing against U of T’s Michael Collins of civil engineering and Megumi Harada of mathematics and other university professors from across the province. Kislenko’s lecture, WWII: The Russian Perspective, was scored the highest by Big Ideas viewers. Mark Lautens, Dept. of Chemistry, has been awarded one of ten Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards from the American Chemical Society. Established in 1984, the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards were created to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry. He will deliver an address along with other recipients at the Arthur C. Cope Symposium during the society’s annual meeting in March 2006. Prof. Lautens was also one of the two recipients honoured by the Canadian Society for Chemistry, he received the Alfred Bader Award in Organic Chemistry, presented as a mark of distinction and recognition for organic chemistry research carried out in Canada. The awards will be presented at the society’s annual conference in Halifax in the spring of 2006, at which both will deliver an award lecture to registrants. Margaret MacMillan, Provost of Trinity College. has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, it was announced on February 6th. She says that she was taken by surprise, but is very pleased. “I had nominated someone else for the Order, so when a letter arrived from the Governor General’s Office before Christmas, I had no idea it had to do with me. When I got around to opening my mail three days later, I was stunned,” she said. She will receive her insignia as Officer of the Order of Canada at a ceremony at Rideau Hall at a later date. Awards to StudentsErin Court, who graduated in June and collected a Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship, as well as an Oxford University Clarendon award, which will help cover her tuition and college fees at Oxford. Court is also Trinity’s newest University of Toronto Alumni Association scholar. The UTAA scholars are finalists for the John. H. Moss Scholarship, which recognizes outstanding extracurricular involvement and academic achievement. In addition, she was named a Provost’s Scholar and also collected the Chancellor’s Silver Medal in Arts and the Douglas Bond Symons Prize in Philosophy at Trinity’s Student Awards ceremony in June. She will begin an MPhil in development studies this fall at Oxford’s St. Antony’s College, where she will focus on global health issues. Janet Guo and Luke Stark, of the Trinity College Dramatic Society, shared the Robert and Dorothea Painter Award in Drama, given annually to a student who has made an extraordinary contribution to theatre at Trinity College. Both are past presidents of the TCDS. Craig Kielburger, a fourth-year Trinity student is one of two winners of the 2006 John H. Moss Scholarship. In winning the John H. Moss Scholarship, awarded annually by the University of Toronto Alumni Association, Kielburger, set to graduate in June at age 23, is adding the university’s most prestigious scholarship to his list of stellar accomplishments. The scholarship, first awarded in 1921, provides up to $16,650 for graduate study to a student who demonstrates outstanding academic and extra-curricular leadership. Christopher Ku, Trinity's Bevan Organ Scholar, was name a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists after completing theoretical and practical examinations with the highest standards. At age 22, he is the youngest organist ever to be named a Fellow since the foundation of the RCCO. Christopher was given his diploma at the RCCO Convocation in Halifax, Nova Scotia on July 26, 2006. Catherwood Scholarships have been awarded to Wynne Lawrence and Vanessa Corlazzoli. The 2006 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards, which recognize students for outstanding extra-curricular contributions, have been awarded to the following Trinity students: Kiera Chion, Erin Court, Sarah Greene, Jennifer Hassum, Jennifer Hood, Matthew Johnston, Craig Kielburger, Ian Kim, Wynne Lawrence, Yumi Numata, Luke Stark and Shazeen Suleman. Suzy Yim, one of two recipients of the first-ever LGBTOUT (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & Transgendered of the University of Toronto) awards in April. The $1,000 scholarship is awarded for outstanding community work and activism in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer (LGBTQ) community. Yim, who graduated in June in zoology, psychology and environmental science, was on the executive of LGBTOUT for two years and ran its women’s group in addition to her research into HIV among gay men and within Toronto’s black female community. She used the scholarship to pay for a trip to Thailand to do HIV research. 2004-2005Awards to FacultyJames Arthur, University Professor of Mathematics, has been elected by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) as president-elect, officially taking office February 1. He will assume the presidency of the Society one year later. Professor Arthur is among the winners of this year's prestigious Killam Prizes, which recognize Canadian scholars for their outstanding career achievements in engineering, natural sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities. In October 2004, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences held a Conference on automorphic forms and the trace formula, in honour of James Arthur on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Robert Bothwell, Coordinator of the International Relations Programme, has been appointed to the National Historic Sites Board of Directors. Marianne Douglas, Dept. of Geology, has been awarded a Tier 1, Natural Sciences and Engineering, Canada Research Chair in Global Change. The awards, tenable for seven years and renewable, are for outstanding researchers acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their fields. Her research involves using sediment from polar lakes and ponds to understand global environmental change. On June 9, 2005, Margaret MacMillan, Trinity College's Provost, received an honorary doctorate from the Ryerson University at a convocation ceremony. Louis Pauly, Director of the Centre for International Studies and Trinity College Fellow, was named the inaugural Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor in International Studies at Northwestern University in Illinois. Edward Safarian, Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College and Professor Emeritus of the Dept. of Economics, was named a member of the Order of Canada. The Order of Canada recognizes outstanding achievement and service in various fields of endeavour. John Sipe, Dept. of Physics, has been elected a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada. He has made original contributions to our theoretical understanding of the optical properties of semiconductors and metals. He is widely known for his pioneering work to understand the linear and nonlinear optical properties starting from the quantum theory of electrons in solids. Dr. Sipe has also explained several novel responses of solids to high light intensities, such as the influence of laser coherence on the patterns formed on surfaces in laser-induced melting, the transmission properties of structured optical fibres at high laser intensity, and how semiconductors change the frequency of light through optical harmonic generation. His work has had significant impact on the telecommunications industry. Prof. Sipe is one of Canada's most cited physicists, and is also recognized as a gifted classroom lecturer. On May 5, 2005 the Academic Board of the University of Toronto approved the appointment of Stephen Waddams, Faculty of Law, as University Professor. Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pflucker, Dept. of Immunology, was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Developmental Immunology. His research involves using state-of-the-art technology to learn about the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern the immune system. The research represents a key step in developing stem-cell based therapies for people with immune-related diseases, such as AIDS, and patients recovering from cancer treatments. Awards to StudentsBen Barry was selected for a Commonwealth Scholarship. These scholarships are intended for students of high intellectual promise who may be expected to make a significant contribution to their own countries on their return from study abroad. This year's Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards, which recognize students for their outstanding extra-curricular contributions, have been awarded to the following Trinity students: Natasha Bollegala, Courtney Brady, Suzanne Brooks, Jordan Fielders, Stephenie Harrison, Lindsay Kochen, Kartick Kumar, Bryony Lau, and Joy Nishikawa. Trinity International Relations students Kartick Kumar and Yukari Takahashi received the 2004 Catherwood Scholarships. These scholarships are awarded annually in order that worthy students might have the opportunity to experience G8 summitry and gain expertise in its issues and institutions. Bryony Lau, a Trinity International Relations student, has been awarded one of the three 2005 Rhodes Scholarships allotted to the "western region" of Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta). Terry DeForest, a student in the Faculty of Divinity, received Ontario Graduate Scholarship Awards for 2004-05. These scholarships are designed to encourage excellence in graduate studies at the masters and doctoral levels. Jake Irwin has been awarded a 2004 Environmental Protection Award by the University’s Environmental Protection Advisory Committee (EPAC) for his work on environmental initiatives at Trinity College and contributions to student environmental groups. 2003-04Awards to FacultyProfessor James Arthur, University Professor of Mathematics, is one of five U of T faculty members to be elected as foreign honorary member to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Election to the academy is an honour that acknowledges intellectual achievement, leadership and creativity in all fields. In all, 187 new fellows and 29 foreign honorary members were elected this year. Professor Arthur has been selected to receive the G. de B. Robinson Prize for 2003 for his paper, A Note on the Automorphic Langlands Group, which appeared in the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin in 2002. Established by the Canadian Mathematical Society to recognize the publication of excellent papers in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics and the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin and to encourage the submission of the highest quality papers to the journals. Professor Paul Downes, Dept. of English, was awarded the Modern Language Association of America's prize for a first book for Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature. Mark Lautens will receive the R.U. Lemieux Award for Organic Chemistry for a distinguished contribution to any area of organic chemistry while working in Canada. Jill Levenson, Dept. of English, is one of the recipients of the SAC/APUS 2003-04 Teaching Award. Professor Levenson has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She was also elected an Associate of the English Association. Professor Margaret MacMillan, Dept. of History and Provost of Trinity College, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. At the introductory ceremony to the Society she has the choice of signing the roll book using either Dickens's quill or Byron's pen. Her book Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World won the 2003 Governor General's prize for non-fiction. Professor Emerita Joanne McWilliam, Study of Religion, received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Queen's University. Cited as a pioneer among women in the academic study of theology, Prof. McWilliam was, among other achievements, the first woman to earn a graduate degree in theology from the University of St. Michael's College, the first ordained woman to be tenured in the Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College, the first woman holder of the Mary Crooke Hoffman Chair in Dogmatic Theology at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church of the United States and the first woman president of the American Theological Society. Professor Margaret Morrison, Dept. of Philosophy, has been elected a Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina). The Leopoldina was founded in 1652 in Schweinfurt and has had its seat in Halle since 1878. Scientists are elected members who have distinguished themselves by demonstrating scientific excellence. The number of members is limited to 1,000. The Archbishop of Toronto announced at the Synod of the Diocese of Toronto recently that the Rev. Dr. David Neelands, Dean of Divinity, has been made an Honorary Canon of St. James' Cathedral. Dr. Neelands will be installed at a service in January. Awards to StaffCongratulations to Trinity magazine, and to Karen Hanley who edits the magazine, for winning the bronze award for the 2003 Prix d'Excellence for best magazine in the under $100,000 budget category awarded by the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education. The CCAE represents about 170 post-secondary institutions (universities, community colleges and CJEPs) across Canada. Herma Joel, the Arts secretary, won a prize for placing second in her age group (55-59), out of 33 women, in the Sporting Life 10k race on May 4, 2003. She placed second in her age category (50-59), out of 70 women, in the Nissan Challenge 5k run on June 13, 2004. On June 18th she ran the 8k Nightcrawler, finishing 2nd out of 19 in her age category. Awards to StudentsMaria Banda, a fourth-year International Relations student, and Navindra Persaud, Trinity's current chemistry and physics academic don, are the recipients of the 2004 Rhodes Scholarships. Congratulations to Maria Banda, Jeremy Burman, Catherine Butler, Tiffanie Ing, Helen Liu, Matthew Napier, Eleanor Pachaud, and Christopher Scotchmer, this year's Trinity College students who received 2004 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards. These awards, sponsored by the University of Toronto Alumni Association, recognize graduating students for their outstanding contributions to the university through extra-curricular involvement. Congratulations to the recipients of 2003-2004 T-Holder Awards from the Faculty of Physical Education and Health: Rakesh Advani, Squash; Joanna Angus, Rowing; Samuel Carsley, Squash; Eleanor Fung, Figure Skating; Meghan Garner, Fencing; Sandeep Kimbhavi, Fencing; Ciara O'Reilly, Rowing. These awards are presented annually to students who have achieved both a First Colour Award for athletic performance and First Class Honours in their academic studies. 2002-03Professor Ronald Deibert, Dept. of Political Science and cross-appointed to Trinity, is the winner of one of the Outstanding Teaching Awards. He also received a 2002 Northrop Frye Award, awarded by the U of T Alumni Association and the Office of the Provost, for his (and Prof. Janice Stein's) course, POL 108, Networks, Nations and Global Politics. Professor Margaret MacMillan, Dept. of History, has been awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for history or biography for her book "Peacemakers: the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War". Dr. MacMillan is the first woman to receive the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, the biggest prize for non-fiction in the UK, for the same book. She also won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. Professor Amanda Peet, Dept.of Physics, has been awarded one of the 100 prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships granted each year by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to provide support and recognition to outstanding young scientists at a time in their careers when other funds may be difficult to obtain. Professor John Sipe, Dept. of Physics, was among the 192 newly elected fellows of the American Physical Society for 2002, an honour recognizing members who have made advances in knowledge through original research and publication or made significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. Professor Sipe was cited for groundbreaking theoretical work on linear and nonlinear optical properties of solid surface, bulk or quantum well semiconductors and soliton propagation in periodic media. Josef Skvorecky, Professor Emeritus of English and Fellow Emeritus of the College, has had an asteroid, discovered in 1998, named in his honour by the International Astronomical Union. Professor David Welch, Dept. of Political Science, has been named the George Ignatieff Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies. He assumes the Chair July 1, 2002. Awards to StaffThe French translation of Dean Elizabeth Abbott's book, A History of Celibacy, won the Governor General's Award for Translation. Paule Noyart did the translation. Herma Joel, the Arts secretary, placed 1st in her age group at the Rock'n Roll 5k on July 11 and at the 10k Nike Run TO race on July 27th she finished 2nd out of 32 women in her division. She placed first in her age group at the Longboat 10k on Sept. 7th. She finished 3rd out of 43 in her age category at the Waterfront Half Marathon on Sept. 27th and on Oct. 19th at the Toronto Marathon she placed 3rd out of 12 in her age category.won a medal for finishing second place, out of 12 women, in her age group in the Chilly Half Marathon in Burlington on March 3 (503 out of 1201 runners overall). On May 5 she placed 3rd out of 23 women in her age group at the Sporting Life 10k race (706/3319 overall). Awards to StudentsOnly two Rhodes Scholarships are awarded annually in Ontario. This year, both scholarships have been claimed by students of Trinity College in the University of Toronto, it was announced Dec. 16. Their awards bring the total of Trinity College Rhodes Scholars to 34. Thomas Ringer, in his final year of a double major in two Trinity programs (English and Ethics and Society and Law) and Zinta Zommers, completing a double major in Biology and Environmental Studies, are the winners. Ringer holds a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.83 and has received a variety of scholarships and awards in recognition of his scholastic and extra-curricular achievement, including the St. George's Society Award for students with an interest in English literature, culture and history and the Stefan Dupr� Prize in Canadian Political Science. Outside of the classroom, he has been a baritone with the Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir and the winner of the Ontario Provincial Duathlon Championship for his age group in 2001. This year, along with another student, he is organizaing a student association for the Ethics, Society and Law program at Trinity. Ringer intends to complete an MSc in comparative social policy at Oxford, followed by a DPhil at Oxford's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. After earning a law degree, he hopes eventually to teach law while maintaining a few secondary projects involving litigation and advocacy. Zommers has applied to the Development Studies program at Oxford University to study the interaction between the environment and human development. Thereafter, she would like to pursue graduate study in conservation biology, specializing in the great apes, then work for the United Nations, developing the World Heritage Species Plan. She has a 3.87 CGPA and has received many scholarships and awards. In 2001 she was one of only 10 U of T students to receive a National Sciences and Research Council (NSERC) undergraduate student research award. Congratulations to the following students who have been recognized with T-Holder Awards for their combined academic and athletic achievements: Daniel Ben-Aron, Rowing; Samuel Carsley, Squash; Eleanor Fung, Figure Skating; Meghan Garner, Fencing; Jeffrey Haylock, Rugby; Lindsay Kochen, Tennis; Helen Liu, Fencing; Thomas Ringer, Cross Country and Track & Field; Caitlin Dmitriew received the Anne Hewett Award as well as a T-Holder Award for Fencing and Mountain Biking. William Parker received a Guinness Scholarship and a T-Holder Award for Swimming. Kartick Kumar received the Spirit of 8T0 Award for Waterpolo. The College wishes to congratulate this year's Trinity College students who received 2003 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards. These awards, sponsored by the University of Toronto Alumni Association, recognize graduating students for their outstanding contributions to the university through extra-curricular involvement. Congratulations to: Mavis Chen, Andrew Crabtree, Vitra Gosine, Peter Josselyn, Tanya Magnus, Andrew Morgan, Andrew Oakden, Michelle Rhodes, Meghan Roberts, Zinta Zommers. Further information on award recipients is available at http://www.alumni.utoronto.ca/events/awards/cressy.htm |
