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Faculty Awards and Honours

Research Awards and Honours

  1. President's Award for Outstanding Research
  2. University Research Professors
  3. Fellows of the Society/Association
  4. Professores Emeriti
  5. Honorary Research Professors
  6. NSERC University Faculty Award
  7. Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award
  8. ICA Hall Medal
  9. Dean of Science Distinguished Scholar Medal

Faculty Service and Education Awards

  1. Distinguished Service Awards
  2. CMS Adrien Pouliot Award

Faculty Teaching Awards

  1. President's Award for Distinguished Teaching
  2. President's Award for Outstanding Teaching (Lecturers and Instructional Staff)
  3. Dean of Science Distinguished Teacher Award
  4. MUNSU Award for Excellence in Teaching
  5. Mathematics and Statistics Motivational Teaching Award
  6. Association of Atlantic Universities Distinguished Teaching Award

 

President's Award for Outstanding Research

The President's Awards for Outstanding Research recognizes young researchers who have made outstanding contributions to their scholarly disciplines. For more information, click here.

  • 2019: Dr. Scott MacLachlan
  • 2018: Dr. Ronald Haynes
  • 2010: Dr. Marco Merkli

 

University Research Professors

The title of University Research Professor is the highest honour that Memorial University of Newfoundland bestows for research, accorded only to faculty who have demonstrated a consistently high level of scholarship and whose research is of truly international stature. For more information, click here.

 

Fellows of the Society/Association

Many organizations which unite researchers in mathematics or statistics designate the title of Fellow to those amongst their membership who have made significant contributions to their chosen field.

  • 2021 Fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society: Dr. David Pike
  • 2019 Fellow Emeritus of the Canadian Mathematical Society: Dr. Edgar Goodaire
  • 2018 Fellow Emeritus of the Canadian Mathematical Society: Dr. Bruce Shawyer
  • 2011 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada: Dr. Danny Summers
  • 2006 Fellow of the Fields Institute: Dr. Hermann Brunner 

 

Professores Emeriti

The honour of professor emeritus is bestowed upon retired faculty members who have a record of sustained, outstanding scholarly work and/or service to the University. For more information, click here.

 

Honorary Research Professors

Retired faculty members who wish to continue active research may be appointed to the position of Honorary Research Professor. For more information, click here.

  • 2006: Dr. Hermann Brunner

 

NSERC University Faculty Award

NSERC has devised the University Faculty Award (UFA) in order to enhance the recruitment of women and aboriginal peoples to tenure-track positions in the natural sciences and engineering.  For more information, click here

 

Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award

Petro-Canada created this national awards program to recognize, promote and support outstanding and innovative young faculty researchers. For more information, click here.

 

CAIMS-PIMS Early Career Award

This prize is awarded to a researcher less than ten years past the date of Ph.D.

  • 2018: Dr. Alexander Bihlo

 

ICA Hall Medal

The Hall Medal recognizes extensive quality research by an Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA) member in mid-career.

  • 2007:Dr. David Pike
  • 1999: Dr. Rolf Rees ( more)

 

Dean of Science Distinguished Scholar Medal

Awarded within the Faculty of Science, the Distinguished Scholar Medal honours individuals who have excelled in both research and teaching. For more information, click here.

  • 2009: Dr. Jie Xiao
  • 1996: Dr. Peter Booth (more)

 

Distinguished Service Awards

Distinguished Service Awards (DSAs) are national honorary designations and were created to recognize exceptional contributions by individuals to their professional community or to that society.

 

CMS Adrien Pouliot Award

The Adrien Pouliot Award was introduced by the Canadian Mathematical Society to honour individuals who have made significant and sustained contributions to mathematics education in Canada. For more information, click here.

 

President's Award for Distinguished Teaching

The President's Award recognizes faculty members from across the University who have demonstrated an inspired and sustained commitment to teaching. For more information, click here.

  • 2016: Dr. Danny Dyer
  • 1996: Dr. Melvyn Lewis (ret.)

 

President's Award for Distinguished Teaching (Lecturers and Instructional Staff)

  • 2018: Beth-Ann Austin

 

Dean of Science Distinguished Teacher Award

  • 2019: Dr. Ronald Haynes

 

MUNSU Award for Excellence in Teaching

  • 2017: Beth-ann  Austin
  • 2016: Dr. Ronald Haynes
  • 2015: Dr. Margarita Kondratieva

 

Mathematics and Statistics Motivational Teaching Award

The Motivational Teaching Award (MTA) is bestowed by the undergraduate and graduate students of the Department upon those faculty members who have best inspired them to further their studies in mathematics and statistics. For more information, click here.

 

Association of Atlantic Universities Distinguished Teaching Award

  • 2017: Dr. Danny Dyer