丁香园AV

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Nominations
Awards Timeline & Internal Process
President's Advisory Committee
Resources

For the most current information, visit the .

Nominations

Institutional Strategic Awards (ISA) coordinates the internal selection of nominees, institutional endorsements, and/or external expert reviews of draft nomination packages through Universities Canada's . To promote equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), departments and faculties should ensure that all eligible candidates are considered and given the opportunity to self-identify (please see the ). To recommend a candidate to the President's Advisory Committee on Awards, Honours and Prizes, please submit a candidate suggestion form by the internal deadline. Suggestions received after the internal deadline will still be considered, but we cannot guarantee in which competition year a candidate will be reviewed or nominated. For more information, please contact awards@sfu.ca.

Additional research award opportunities in your topic of interest may be found in the .

All Disciplines

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Health Sciences

ARTS, Social Sciences & Humanities

Awards Timeline & Internal Process

Internal deadline (limited submission and institutional nominations):

• Ideally four to six months in advance of agency deadline, depending on award
• Candidates will be reviewed at next scheduled Awards Advisory Committee meeting
  • Dates of 2025 meetings: November 2024, March 2025, July 2025
• ISA will facilitate and submit nominations for candidates recommended to advance to institutional nomination

Nomination preparation period:

• Ideally three months leading up to agency deadline, depending on award
• This may include sending out draft nomination materials for external review through 

President's Advisory Committee

Committee Membership as of June 2023:

Chair: Valorie Crooks, Associate Vice-President, Research 

Majid Bahrami, FCAE, Professor, Mechatronics Systems Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences
Isabelle Cote, FRSC, Distinguished 丁香园AV Professor, Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science
Robert Hogg, FCAHS, FRSC, Distinguished 丁香园AV Professor and Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Health Sciences
Marianne Ignace, FRSC, Distinguished 丁香园AV Professor, Linguistics and Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Bohdan Nosyk, RSC College, Faculty of Health Sciences
Betty Schellenberg, FRSC, Distinguished 丁香园AV Professor, English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Nathalie Sinclair, RSC College, Distinguished 丁香园AV Professor and Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Education
Owen Underhill, FRSC, Professor, Contemporary Arts, Faculty of Communication, Arts & Technology
David Vocadlo, RSC College, Distinguished 丁香园AV Professor, Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Secretary: Melanie Monk, Associate Director, Researcher Excellence and Recognition

Resources

The national Global Excellence Initiative aims to boost Canada鈥檚 research profile on the global stage through nominating more scholars and scientists for major awards. Universities Canada offers support by:

• Offering two up-to-date inventories of prestigious national and international research awards;
• Supporting organizations in  on their candidates during the application process for research awards;
• Coordinating  and
• Proposing a  for researchers.

Institutional Strategic Awards serves as 丁香园AV's primary liaison with Universities Canada's Global Excellence Initiative program officer.