Senate Committee on Awards

The Senate Committee on Awards recommends to Senate the terms of reference for new and revised student awards, considers and approves the recipients of student awards, and recommends policy and calendar regulations pertaining to student awards.

The committee meets every month.

Click here for the Committee's Terms of Reference

Annual Reports
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018

Membership and Composition effective July 1, 2022 

  Name                                Faculty or Department       Composition

Maureen Ryan
(Chair)
(term ends June 30, 2024)
Human and Social Development

5 faculty members
(at least 2 of whom shall be senators* and 1 of whom shall be from the Faculty of Graduate Studies)
(voting)

Sudhir Nair *
(term ends June 30, 2025)
Peter B. Gustavson School of Business
Linda Welling
(term ends June 30, 2023)
Social Sciences
Leslee Francis Pelton
(term ends June 30, 2024)
Graduate Studies
Rishi Gupta *
(term ends June 30, 2024)
Engineering and Computer Science
Alyssa Manankil
(term ends June 30, 2024)
Alumni Association  1 Alumni Association representative
(voting)
Justin Bonnieux
(term ends June 30, 2023)
Student Senator 2 students, one of whom shall be a student member of Senate and one of whom shall be a graduate student representative
(voting)

Nahid Safari
(term ends June 30, 2023)
GSS representative
John Dower
Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies
 Chair of the Faculty of Graduate Awards Committee
(ex-officio, voting)
Lalita Kines
Associate Director, Office of Indigenous Academic Community Engagement President or nominee
(ex-officio, voting)
Donja Roberts
Scholarship Officer
 Scholarship Officer, Faculty of Graduate Studies
(ex-officio, non-voting)
Wendy Taylor
Acting Registrar
 Registrar
(ex-officio, non-voting)
Lori Nolt
Director, Student Awards and Financial Aid

Director, Student Awards and Financial Aid
(ex-officio, non-voting) 

Alexis Ramsdale
Student Awards and Financial Aid Secretary, Represenative from Student Awards and Financial Aid