Killam Prizes

The $50,000 Killam Prizes, inaugurated in 1981, are financed through funds donated to the Canada Council for the Arts by Mrs. Dorothy J. Killam before her death, in memory of her husband, Izaak Walton Killam. The prizes were created to honour eminent Canadian scholars and scientists actively engaged in research, whether in industry, government agencies or universities. They are not related to a particular accomplishment, but are given in recognition of distinguished lifetime achievement and outstanding contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of the natural sciences, health sciences and engineering. Scientists may not apply for the prizes, but must be nominated by specialists in the field. In 1998, Fernand Labrie, Professor at Université Laval and Director of the Université Laval hospital research centre (CHUL), is the winner of the Killam Prize for the Health Sciences; Martha Salcudean, Professor and holder of the Weyerhaeuser Industrial Research Chair in Computational Fluid Dynamics, at the University of British Columbia, is the winner of the Killam Prize for Engineering; and Juan C. (Tito) Scaiano, Professor at University of Ottawa, is the winner of the Killam Prize for Natural Sciences.

OCUFA Awards

The recipients of the 1997 awards for teaching and librarianship at the post-secondary level in Ontario have been chosen. Presented annually by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) the awards honour professors and academic librarians who have demonstrated outstanding performance in their profession.

The winners of the 1997 Teaching Awards are:

Rebecca Coulter (Education, Western Ontario)
Bernard Katz (Philosophy, Toronto)
Martha Keniston Laurence (Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier)
Scott Mabury (Chemistry, Toronto)
Lorna MacDonald (Music, Toronto)
Jorge Nef (Political Science, Guelph)
Morris Orzech (Mathematics & Statistics, Queen's)
P.K. Rangachari (Medicine, McMaster)

The winner of the 1997 Academic Librarianship Award is: Ashley Thomson (J.N. Desmarais Library, Laurentian)

CSSHE Research Award

The CSSHE Research Award was created to honour excellence in research on higher education. One award winner is chosen annually by a committee of leading researchers who receive nominations from the scholarly community. Sandra Acker, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, has been named the recipient of the 1998 CSSHE Research Award.

Emil Gumpert Award

The Dalhousie Law School is the first in Canada to win the Emil Gumpert Award from the American College of Trial Lawyers. The Emil Gumpert Award is named in memory of a distinguished California judge and trial counsel and has been presented annually since 1976. This prestigious award recognizes law school excellence in trial advocacy training and teaching. Recipients include Harvard, Yale, UCLA, Northwestern and New York University.

Nicole Raymond Award

Dr. Claude Dionne (Marketing, Moncton) and currently acting executive director of CAUT is the recipient of the 1998 Nicole Raymond Award sponsored by the Federation of New Brunswick Faculty Associations. The award is given in recognition of a distinguished contribution to the advancement of post-secondary education.