
Do you know someone in the Faculty of Mathematics and Science who should be recognized for excellence in teaching, research or student engagement? If so, please use the provided web form to submit a nomination and letters of support together with supporting documentation highlighting and quantifying excellence in research, teaching and service as you see appropriate for recognition in the categories shown below. Each category description defines the criteria for the award.
Who can nominate or recommend: Each chair may select 1-2 candidate from their department to nominate for this award.
Eligible Candidates: Faculty
Eligibility Requirements: Permanent FT faculty member and previous recipient of a Faculty and/or University teaching or research award.
Award Intent: Strong commitment to 40:40:20. Greatest contribution in the previous academic year in all aspects of his/her normal workload distribution: including research, teaching and service.
Selection Process: Candidates are scored from 1-10 on the areas of Research, Teaching and Service as defined in the Nomination Requirements. The scores are summed.
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS: A review of the candidates Research: Publications in the prior academic year in addition to grants, technical reports, conference presentations and any other information that will establish his/her contributions. Teaching: Information from teaching evaluations for prior academic year, Service: activities (Brock community, the local community as well as the larger scientific community) and their complexity and impact.
Who can nominate or recommend: Open nominations as well as recommendations from each Chair/Director
Eligible Candidates: Faculty and non-BUFA
Eligibility Requirements: Permanent FT faculty including LTAs and ILTAs. Includes CUPE 4207 and staff.
Award Intent: Greatest contribution or improvement in the previous academic year in teaching to support the Faculty’s Vision and Mission.
Selection Process: A committee of chairs and directors + 1 non-voting chair of either the Dean or Associate Deans reviews all nominations and selects one (1) candidate
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS: Statement of Nomination + 1 letter of support
Who can nominate or recommend: Recommendation by each Chair/Director submitted to the Dean and Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
Eligible Candidates: Faculty
Eligibility Requirements: Permanent FT faculty including LTAs and ILTAs
Award Intent: Exceptional contribution in the previous academic year in research to support the Faculty’s Vision and Mission.
Selection Process: A committee of chairs and directors + 1 non-voting chair of either the Dean or Associate Deans reviews all nominations and selects three (3) candidate
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS: The Dean and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies presents three candidates to the committee for final selection
Who can nominate or recommend: Recommendation by Chair/Director/Supervisor only
Eligible Candidates: Staff
Eligibility Requirements: Permanent FT staff and those with FT contract 12m+ in duration. Note: Those who report to the Dean or Associate Deans are ineligible.
Award Intent: Exceptional contribution in the previous academic year distinguishing themselves in their work (exceptional service to Department, FMS, Brock or student/campus life)
Selection Process: A committee of chairs and directors + 1 non-voting chair of either the Dean or Associate Deans reviews all nominations and selects one (1) candidate
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS: N/A Note: Those who report to the Dean or Associate Deans are ineligible.
Who can nominate or recommend: For faculty: Open nominations as well as recommendations from each Chair/Director. For Staff: Open nominations as well as recommendations from each Chair/Director, Supervisor
Eligible Candidates: Faculty and Staff
Eligibility Requirements: Permanent FT faculty including LTAs and ILTAs. Permanent FT staff and those with FT contract 12m+ in duration.
Award Intent: Significant contribution in the previous academic year to the Faculty’s efforts regarding overall student experience, recruitment and outreach.
Selection Process: A committee of chairs and directors + 1 non-voting chair of either the Dean or Associate Deans reviews all nominations and selects one (1) Faculty and one (1) Staff candidate
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS: Examples include participation in various activities like Brock’s Open House, Fall Preview Day, OUF, NRSEF, Mentorship Program, Scientifically Yours, Convocation or visits to local high schools.
Who can nominate or recommend: Open nominations
Eligible Candidates: Faculty
Eligibility Requirements: Permanent FT faculty member with 20+ years of service at Brock with 50%+ in FMS
Award Intent: Numerous significant contributions to the FMS and Brock throughout their career at Brock.
Selection Process: A committee of chairs and directors + 1 non-voting chair of either the Dean or Associate Deans reviews all nominations and selects one (1) candidate
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS: Statement of nomination + 2 letters of support. Note: May not be awarded each year
Who can nominate or recommend: Open nominations
Eligible Candidates: Staff
Eligibility Requirements: Permanent FT staff member with 20+ years of service at Brock with 50%+ in FMS
Award Intent: Numerous significant contributions to the FMS and Brock throughout their career at Brock.
Selection Process: A committee of chairs and directors + 1 non-voting chair of either the Dean or Associate Deans reviews all nominations and selects one (1) candidate
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS: Statement of nomination + 2 letters of support. Note: May not be awarded each year
Who can nominate or recommend: Open nominations as well as recommendations from each Chair/Director, Supervisor
Eligible Candidates: Faculty and Staff
Eligibility Requirements: Permanent FT Faculty or Permanent FT staff and those with FT contract 12m+ in duration
Award Intent: Has exhibited a passion for incorporating experiential education (EE) opportunities into their class(es)., incorporates anyone who has been doing EE for a long time, has launched a new EE element into an existing course, has created a brand new course focused around EE, has made efforts to incorporate multiple forms of EE across their class(es), has put an emphasis on providing Year 1&2 students with EE opportunities.
Selection Process: A committee of chairs and directors + 1 non-voting chair of either the Dean or Associate Deans reviews all nominations and selects one (1) candidate
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS: N/A
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This award is chosen by students with voting organized by the FMS student council. The recipient of this award is a Faculty or Staff member that has exhibited a passion for math and science education and has gone above and beyond the requirements of their profession, striving for student success.
Three departmental awards are available each year chosen at the Dean’s discretion based on departmental data for the year.
- The Highest Departmental Surplus Award
- The Highest Number of Majors Award
- The Recognition of International Enterprise Award
Each award comes with a unique trophy which resides in the winning department for the year and represents the outstanding achievement of the department.
Award | 2014 winner | 2015 Winners | 2016 Winners | 2017 Winners | 2018 Winners | 2019 Winners |
Distinguished Teaching Award | Lydia Chen, Santo D’Agostino | Thad Harroun, Earl Foxwell | Bozidar Mitrovic | Jeffrey Atkinson | Rick Cheel | N/A |
Distinguished Teaching Award | Nick Vesprini | Dorothy Levay | Hernan Ugalde | Paul Zelisko | N/A | Baoling Bork |
Distinguished Research Award | Gary Pickering | David Crandles, Stephen Anco | Nigel Blamey, Uwe Brand | Henryk Fuks, Gaynor Spencer | Alexandre Odesski | Miriam Richards, Georgii Nikonov, Martin Head |
Distinguished Staff Award | Gail Higenell | Cale Fairchild | Christine Keith | Jacinta Dano | Donna Phelps | Jennifer Roberts |
Student Experience, Recruitment and Outreach Award | Ed Sternin | Lydia Chen, Thomas Wolf | Heather Gordon | Frank Fueten | none | N/A |
Student Experience, Recruitment and Outreach Award | Astride Silis | Poling Bork | Christine Carpenter-Cleland | Dan Lonergan | Steve Trussler, Paul Zelisko | Heather Bellisario |
Dean’s Distinguished Scholar Award | Doug Bruce, Bozidar Mitrovic | Tomas Hudlicky | Thad Harroun | Mei Ling Huang, Fereidoon Razavi | none | Jeffrey Atkinson |
Lifetime Achievement Award | Ian Brindle | N/A | Stefan Brudzinski | Jonathan Radue | Dave Hughes | Heather Gordon, Joffre Merrcier |
Lifetime Achievement Award | N/A | N/A | Mike Lozon | N/A | Pete Barclay, Beulah Alexander | N/A |
Experiential Education Leadership Award | N/A | N/A | N/A | Uwe Brand | Jacinta Dano, Dorina Szuroczki | N/A |
Math & Science Council Excellence in Teaching & Student Engagement Award | Basil Nanayakkara | Lori MacNeil | Mark Lukewich | Eric DeHoog | Amanda Lepp | Basil Nanayakkara |
Highest Departmental Surplus Award | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Mathematics and Statistics |
Highest Number of Majors Award | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Computer Science |
Recognition for Recruitment of International Enterprise Award | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | International Office |
Year | Recipient |
2020 | Robert Carlone |
2019 | Rick Cheel |
2018 | Jeffrey Atkinson |
2017 | Omar Kihel |
2016 | Thad Harroun |
2015 | Santo D’Agostino |
2014 | Joffre Merrcier |
2013 | Alan Castle |
2012 | Greg Finn |
2011 | Bozidar Mitrovic |
2010 | Michael Winter |
2009 | Andy Reynolds |
2008 | Ed Sternin |
2007 | Doug Bruce |
2006 | Michael Bidochka |
2005 | Henryk Fuks |
2004 | Dr. Mei Ling Huang |
2003 | Heather Gordon |
2002 | Bill Ralph |